Films by Women

A repository for films created by or about women. Submissions welcome. Periodically NSFW.

  1. Celia, 1989, Ann Turner

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  2. LIAR.


    Celia, 1989, Ann Turner

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  3. Innocence, 2004, Lucile Hadzihalilovic

    Posted 1 year ago

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  4. too damn busy, please feel free to submit posts to the queue.

    DO IT

    Posted 1 year ago

  5. Ms. 45, 1981, Abel Ferrara

    [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]

    greggorysshocktheater:

     Walking home from work one night, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City’s Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a masked attacker. She survives and makes her way back to her apartment, where she encounters a burglar and is raped a second time. Thana bludgeons this second assailant to death with an iron. She then keeps his .45 caliber M1911A1 pistol, dismembers the burglar’s body, puts the pieces into plastic garbage bags and gradually disposes of them in various locations throughout the city. She begins to have frequent nightmares and hallucinations of the first assailant stalking her, and her mental stability begins to dim.

    Thana is noticed by a man while she is disposing of one of the bagged body parts; retrieving the bag, he chases and frightens her. Fearing another sexual assault, she fatally shoots him. This event furthers her impulse for vengeance. Gradually, Thana transforms her appearance to become a more and more seductive bait, and sets out to kill any man who annoys her. Near the end of the film, she dons a nun’s habit and red lipstick to attend a Halloween party with her boss and co-workers. Her boss tries to take advantage of her and is killed; Thana then begins a shooting spree and targets all the men present. 

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  6. A satiric romantic comedy, Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl is a testimony to the short-lived Southern California ’80s craze. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is a good-natured teenager following a swarm of pastel pink valley girls, who utter “gag me” at every opportunity. To her friends’ dismay , Julie breaks up with her egotistical boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), while shopping at the mall. All the valley kids go to a party that night, and Tommy immediately tries to bed one of Julie’s friends. Randy (Nicolas Cage), a bad boy from Hollywood, shows up and crashes the party. Open-minded Julie flirts with him before he is literally thrown out, presumably just for looking different. Smitten with Julie, Randy sneaks back into the party to talk to her again. Julie drags a whimpering valley friend with her to spend the night cruising with Randy in Hollywood. After an extended courtship, Randy is in love with Julie, and she must choose between him and Tommy, who wants her back. Her friends refuse to accept Randy, who makes many exaggerated attempts to win back her love. Finally, after she has a heartfelt talk with her dad (Frederic Forrest), love triumphs at the prom.

    A satiric romantic comedy, Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl is a testimony to the short-lived Southern California ’80s craze. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is a good-natured teenager following a swarm of pastel pink valley girls, who utter “gag me” at every opportunity. To her friends’ dismay , Julie breaks up with her egotistical boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), while shopping at the mall. All the valley kids go to a party that night, and Tommy immediately tries to bed one of Julie’s friends. Randy (Nicolas Cage), a bad boy from Hollywood, shows up and crashes the party. Open-minded Julie flirts with him before he is literally thrown out, presumably just for looking different. Smitten with Julie, Randy sneaks back into the party to talk to her again. Julie drags a whimpering valley friend with her to spend the night cruising with Randy in Hollywood. After an extended courtship, Randy is in love with Julie, and she must choose between him and Tommy, who wants her back. Her friends refuse to accept Randy, who makes many exaggerated attempts to win back her love. Finally, after she has a heartfelt talk with her dad (Frederic Forrest), love triumphs at the prom.

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  7. Valley Girl, 1982, Martha Coolidge STONE COLD DERP FOX.

    Valley Girl, 1982, Martha Coolidge

    STONE COLD DERP FOX.

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  8. Valley Girl, 1982, Martha Coolidge

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  9. Valley Girl, 1982, Martha Coolidge

    [reblogged from judithsmutler]

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  10. Director Claudia Llosa follows her award-winning feature directorial debut, Madeinusa, with this stark meditation on a grim period of South American history in which approximately 70,000 people were murdered between the years 1980 and 2000. Fausta (Magaly Solier) has fallen ill with a disease passed down from mother to daughter through breast milk. But Fausta’s affliction isn’t biological; it strictly affects Peruvian women who were raped or abused during those two terrible decades of persecution. While those days are long gone, Fausta stands as a living reminder of the horrors that once plagued her country, her malady a deep-rooted fear that stripped the young innocent of her soul. After Fausta’s mother dies, the horrified girl is forced to confront her greatest fear by staring straight into the black heart of her own paranoia. Now, as Fausta sets out to discover her own path to freedom, she inserts a potato into her vagina in order to protect her body from unwanted intruders.

    Director Claudia Llosa follows her award-winning feature directorial debut, Madeinusa, with this stark meditation on a grim period of South American history in which approximately 70,000 people were murdered between the years 1980 and 2000. Fausta (Magaly Solier) has fallen ill with a disease passed down from mother to daughter through breast milk. But Fausta’s affliction isn’t biological; it strictly affects Peruvian women who were raped or abused during those two terrible decades of persecution. While those days are long gone, Fausta stands as a living reminder of the horrors that once plagued her country, her malady a deep-rooted fear that stripped the young innocent of her soul. After Fausta’s mother dies, the horrified girl is forced to confront her greatest fear by staring straight into the black heart of her own paranoia. Now, as Fausta sets out to discover her own path to freedom, she inserts a potato into her vagina in order to protect her body from unwanted intruders.

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  11. La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

    La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

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  12. La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

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  13. La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

    La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

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  14. La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

    La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

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  15. La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa

    La teta asustada - The Milk of Sorrow, 2009, Claudia Llosa