Topic: Feminism

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Feminism. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


Las muertes chiquitas

2013 · Documentary · min. · Mexico

Direction Mireia Sallarès

8.2

36 votes

8.2

36 votes

Persepolis

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Marjane Satrapi · Vincent Paronnaud

Plot Tehran 1978: An eight year old Marjane, dreams of being a future prophet, intent on saving the world. Cherished by her modern and cultivated parents and adored by her grandmother,...

7.8

42K votes

7.8

42K votes

Salt of the Earth

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Herbert J. Biberman

Cast Juan Chacón · Will Geer · Rosaura Revueltas · Mervin Williams

Plot "Salt of the Earth" is a movie about New Mexico zinc miners and their struggle to improve working conditions. Using local people to re-enact their experiences, Biberman once more found...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Miller · Reed Morano · Mike Barker · Kate Dennis

Cast Elisabeth Moss · Joseph Fiennes · Max Minghella · Yvonne Strahovski

Plot TV Series (2017-Present Day). 3 Seasons. 36 Episodes. In a dystopian near-future, the totalitarian and Christian fundamentalist government of Gilead rules the former United States amidst an ongoing civil war....

7.7

23K votes

7.7

23K votes

Cuidado, resbala

2013 · Documentary · 62 min. · Spain

Direction María Camacho Gómez · Montserrat Clos Fabuel · Mercedes Cordero Suárez · Vanessa Gómez Martínez

Plot We live in societies where what is prioritized are those paid activities, reporting and prestige are measured in monetary value. However, there are a lot of invisible tasks that are...

7.7

21 votes

7.7

21 votes

She's Beautiful When She's Angry

2014 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States

Direction Mary Dore

Plot Tells the story of the brilliant, often outrageous women who founded the feminist movement of the 1960s. They said 'the personal is political' and made a revolution: in the bedroom,...

7.6

406 votes

7.6

406 votes

Women Make Film (TV Series)

2018 · Documentary · 840 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Mania Akbari · Clio Barnard · Antonia Bird · Jane Campion

Plot The monumental but largely unrecognized efforts of female filmmakers across the years are highlighted and celebrated in this latest and epic entry from filmmaker and historian Mark Cousins.

7.6

109 votes

7.6

109 votes

Carnival in Flanders

1935 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Françoise Rosay · Jean Murat · Louis Jouvet · Micheline Cheirel

Plot When the village of Boom, in Flanders, learns a Spanish Duke and his troops plan to pass the night, the 4-man army deserts and the Mayor plays dead; so the...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Nasrin

2020 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Kaufman

Cast Olivia Colman · Ann Curry · Shirin Ebadi · Narges Hosseini

Plot A portrait of one of the world's most courageous human rights activists and political prisoners, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran's remarkably resilient women's rights movement.

7.4

48 votes

7.4

48 votes

!Women Art Revolution

2010 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States

Direction Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Plot It explores the history of the feminist art movement.

7.4

32 votes

7.4

32 votes

Binga & The Great Idea (Binta and the Great Idea) (S)

2004 · Movie · 29 min. · Spain

Direction Javier Fesser

Cast Zeynabou Diallo · Agnile Sambou · Aminata Sane

Plot Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make...

7.4

948 votes

7.4

948 votes

To Spanish Women. María Lejárraga

2022 · Documentary · 88 min. · Spain

7.4

537 votes

7.4

537 votes

Excluidas del paraíso

2016 · Documentary · 76 min. · Spain

7.4

30 votes

7.4

30 votes

Eros plus massacre

1969 · Movie · 216 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Yûko Kusunoki · Etsushi Takahashi

Plot Erosu Purasu Gyakusatsu is the biography of early 20th-Century socialist (and eventual anarchist) rebel Sakae Osugi, and the three women in his life: Hori Yasuko, his wife; his jealous, second...

7.4

156 votes

7.4

156 votes

Home Ground (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 50 min. · Norway

Direction Arild Andresen · Cecilie A. Mosli · Yngvild Sve Flikke · Stian Kristiansen

Cast Svein Roger Karlsen · Even Vesterhus · Rolf Kristian Larsen · Nader Khademi

Plot TV Series (2018-Present Day). When a newly promoted football club lose their trainer just before the start of the league season, a female, Helena Mikkelsen, gets the historic chance to...

7.3

474 votes

7.3

474 votes

Antonia's Line

1995 · Movie · 93 min. · Netherlands

Direction Marleen Gorris

Cast Willeke van Ammelrooy · Jan Decleir · Els Dottermans · Victor Löw

Plot In an anonymous Dutch village, a sturdy, strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of...

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

Sonita

2015 · Documentary · 91 min. · Germany

Direction Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

Plot A young Afghan woman faces an undesirable fate at the hands of her parents who sell her an unknown husband.

7.3

277 votes

7.3

277 votes

Delphine and Carole

2019 · Documentary · 70 min. · France

Direction Callisto McNulty

Cast Carole Roussopoulos · Delphine Seyrig

Plot Calliso McNulty's documentary chronicles how French actress Delphine Seyrig fought for women's rights both off the screen and behind the camera.

7.3

189 votes

7.3

189 votes

Les Resilients

2019 · Documentary · 48 min. · Spain

Direction Cristina Madrid

Cast Clara Peya · The Sey Sisters

Plot A reflection on the new awareness of the space of women in contemporary music made in Barcelona. Artists such as Clara Peya, Roba Estesa, Tribade or The Sey Sisters talk...

7.3

22 votes

7.3

22 votes