Strong Female Lead Movies
Movies about women, from independent, auteur and cult cinema. This collection gathers films built around female protagonists: women who carry the story, make the decisions and shape the world around them, whether they are fighting, searching, resisting or simply getting by. The stories range from intimate portraits to wider social dramas, from quiet character studies to bolder, more unruly experiments, and they come from filmmakers who treat women as complex people instead of supporting roles. Many of these female-led movies look at identity, family, work, desire and independence in ways that mainstream cinema often leaves aside.
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The Naked Kiss
Movie
Drama, Noir, by Samuel Fuller, 1964, United States.
Kelly is a prostitute who arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville, after moving away from the big city to escape her former protector. She meets her local police captain Griff who hosts her in her apartment, but then invites her to leave ... -
Festival in Cannes
Movie
Sentimental comedy, by Henry Jaglom, United States, 2001.
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an independent film, and is looking for financiers. She meets Kaz, a talkative businessman, who promises her $ 3 million if she uses Millie, a French star who has passed her youth and no lon... -
Dementia
Movie
Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ... -
Shadow
Movie
Short film, mystery, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
Lumi is a ten year old child with no friends, who lives with her grandmother tele-dependent: since feeling lonely, she creates an imaginary friend in her shadow... Freely adapted from "Shadow" by Edgar Allan Poe.LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: Italian -
French cinema of the 1910s
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Short films, France, 1896-1912.
After the success of the pioneers such as the Lumière and Méliès, industrial productions arose in France to satisfy the commercial demand of the public. Again two brothers, the Pathé, together with Gaumont and Film d'Art, were the protagonists of the new cinema bus... -
Heruka
Movie
Documentary, by Isabel Russinova, Italy, 2015.
The history of the Romanes people through the images of a meager and gloomy reportage, which shows the living conditions of the people today: the hardships, the expectations, the dramas of discrimination and persecution. However, the personality and ... -
Arianna
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Drama, by Alessandro Scippa, Italy, 2012.
On a small island where she lives and works, Arianna prepares to welcome the new year with joy, leaving the past behind. However, that night could mark not only the end of the year but also the end of her story with Nanni, a beekeeper from the city. The i... -
The Smartphone Woman
Movie
Drama, thriller, dark comedy, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy 2020.
On a bridge over the Tiber River, an elderly and severely ill man has decided to end his life, but an unusual discovery changes his mind: he comes across a lost smartphone. Intrigued, he decides to return home and watch the videos cont... -
Carnival of souls
Movie
Horror, by Herk Harvey, United States, 1962.
Mary Henry emerges unscathed from a car accident that killed her two companions, and sets off on a strange adventure in Salt Lake City, where she finds herself drawn to a dilapidated lakeside pavilion and haunted by a ghostly figure (played by same dir...