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20th Century Women
Annette Bening is a single mother in her mid-fifties raising a teenage son in 1979 Santa Barbara, drawn with full feminist complexity. A rich portrait…
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Antonia’s Line
This Oscar-winning feminist classic follows an older matriarch who returns to her village and builds a thriving, multigenerational community of women on her own terms.…
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Bombshell
Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron lead the true story of the women who brought down Fox News chief Roger Ailes over sexual harassment. Older women…
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Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
A documentary revisiting the women captured in a landmark 1977 book of photographs that chronicled the awakening of the feminist movement — and asking, decades…
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First Wives Club
Three college friends — Brenda, Elise, and Annie — reunite after the suicide of a fourth classmate and discover their husbands have all left them…
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Hidden Figures
The true story of three Black women mathematicians at NASA whose calculations made the first American space missions possible. A joyful, inspiring portrait of brilliance,…
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Lilly
The true story of Lilly Ledbetter (Patricia Clarkson), an Alabama Goodyear supervisor who discovers she has been underpaid for years and launches a decade-long fight…
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
A widowed London charwoman falls in love with a Christian Dior dress and decides she will have one, no matter what it costs her. Lesley…
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On the Basis of Sex
The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career and the landmark tax case that launched her legal fight for gender equality. A stirring portrait of…
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The Glorias
Julianne Moore portrays Gloria Steinem across the decades, foregrounding her years as a movement leader and elder stateswoman of feminism. A biopic that honours an…
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
Told entirely through archival footage, this Oscar-nominated short documentary resurrects Martha Mitchell — the outspoken wife of Nixon’s attorney general, who blew the whistle on…
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The Substance
A fading fitness TV host (Demi Moore) injects a black-market substance that generates a younger version of herself—with escalating, grotesque consequences. Winner of the Cannes…
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The Woman King
Viola Davis commands the screen as Nanisca, general of the Agojie — the all-female warrior unit that defended the West African kingdom of Dahomey in…
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This Changes Everything
An unflinching documentary about gender inequality in Hollywood, featuring Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, and Sandra Oh. Drawing on data from the…
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Voices: Our Stories Before Roe v. Wade
Voices: Our Stories Before Roe v. Wade gathers the firsthand testimonies of women who came of age before 1973, when safe, legal abortion was not…
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Woman in Gold
Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, an octogenarian who takes on the Austrian government to reclaim a Klimt painting stolen by the Nazis. A true story…
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Your Roots Are Showing
Your Roots Are Showing is an award-winning documentary by makeup and hair artist Ilise Harris exploring the global movement of women embracing gray hair. Through…
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