My Top 15 Favorite Movies Directed by Women ✨

My Top 15 Movies Directed by Women

What are some of your favorite films directed by women? What should I add to my watchlist?

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00:00 Intro
00:26 Horror Movies
05:21 Contemporary Movies
15:33 Feel Good Movies
21:11 Outro Chat
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[StoriesForCoffee]

What’s your favorite film directed by a woman? 🤍

[walterprado]

Some of my favorites (not mentioning any you mentioned):

P.S.: OK, I didn't expect it to be this long.

The Trouble with Angels
Vagabond and Cléo from 5 to 7
Enough Said
Mustang
Little Women (1994)
Leave no Trace
Radiance
Any film by Céline Sciamma
The Assistant
Emma (2020)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always and It Felt Like Love
For Sama
ADN
Prayers for the Stolen and Tempestad
Playground
Girl Picture
Amanda
An Education
Grbavica
Brave
Innocence
The Secret Garden
Nowhere in Africa
Bright Star
Toni Erdmann
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Now and Then
Wadjda
Chocolat
Belle
Lovely Rita
The Summer of Sangaile
Little Tickles
Thursday till Sunday
Arcadia
Papicha
The Mole Agent and The Eternal Memory
Identifying Features
Relic
Rocks
Shirley
Blow the Man Down
Cuties
El Planeta
Pleasure
Make Up
Test Pattern
Never Gonna Snow Again
Hope
Murina
Unclenching the Fists
Ninjababy
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Descendant
Not Okay
Love According to Dalva
Saint Omer
Aloners
Reality

[kasandramartinez]

❤ I love pretty much every movie you mentioned too. In no particular order, some of my top 5 favorite movies directed by women are
1. Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso)
2. Speak (Jessica Sharzer)
3. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
4. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
5. Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)

[maryseptihet]

My 5 favourite movies directed by women are:

1. The Riot Club (2014) dir. Lone Scherfig
2. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) dir. Marielle Heller
3. Fish Tank (2009) dir. Andrea Arnold
4. The Farewell (2019) dir. Lulu Wang
5. The Edge of Seventeen (2016) dir. Kelly Fremon Craig

In terms of female directors though I also love Ava DuVernay, Sofia Coppola, Autumn De Wilde, Emma Seligman, Chloé Zhao, Rose Glass, Lynne Ramsay - and I am just so thankful that list is getting bigger and bigger!

[stace_d]

Have you ever seen Zola (directed by Janicza Bravo)? I thought it was so, so good and funny, but really underrated.
Also, I love Eve's Bayou! (Kasi Lemmons' directorial debut).
Love and Basketball (by Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood) is a classic, and the only sports movie I love.
Fish Tank (directed by Andrea Arnold) is excellent and just tore my heart out.

[NathanThomas-qc]

I really like Big 1988, directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins.

[martinbennett_aintright]

I feel like as someone who likes historical or period stories, you might like “Emily” (2022). Fictionalized movie of Emily Brontë and her family, directed by Frances O’Connor.

[MicoDossun]

Going by your margins I’ll say
Horror
Amer
Day Night Day Night
Fat Girl (this one is very controversial so just be aware before going in)
Madeline’s Madeline
Ravenous

Contemporary
Mikey and Nicky
Pariah
River of Grass
Sadie
Small, Beautifully Moving Parts

Feelgood
Alma’s Rainbow
Double Happiness
Rikky and Pete
Waitress
The Watermelon Woman

Also I would toss in the documentaries
All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
Chisholm ‘72
I Am Another You
Paris is Burning
Shirkers

[Lachi-mo-la-la]

Will you make some romcom movie recs?
With different tropes like "She falls first", "They hate each other first" - with all time happy ending ?

[xojessciarcz]

Bodies Bodies Bodies was sooo good!! TATBILB will forever be a favorite of mine <3

[manoeksbooknook]

My favorite female director is Celine Sciamma ! I obviously love Portrait of a Lady on Fire but I also highly recommend her other films like Petit Maman, Tomboy and Water Lilies

[YTLawnGnome]

Wait...Timothee Chalamet is NOT a good actor?! People say that?! HOW!? His performances in Call Me By Your Name and Beautiful Boy are such moving performances. Espeically from someone who was so young when he played those roles! Now is he very much known and is doing such great work in small and blockbuster movies. I love him in DUNE as well.

[haamaail]

Movies Directed by Women
Happy As Lazzaro
La Chimera
Petite Maman
Tomboy
High Life
Girlfriends
Milkey And Nicky
On Body And Soul
The Story Of My Wife
The Power Of The Dog
The Souvenir
Showing Up
Certain Women
Old Joy
First Cow
One Day
Seeking a Friend For The End of The world
You Were Never Really Here
Ratcatcher
One Fine Morning
Kung Fu Master 1988

[BaileeWalsh]

oooof a top 5 directed by women list is difficult but in this moment I'm going to say: _Dogfight_ (1991) [Nancy Savoca], _The Love Witch_ (2016) [Anna Biller], _Peppermint Soda_ (1977) [Diane Kurys], _Bound_ (1996) [Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski], and _A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night_ (2014) [Ana Lily Amirpour]. _Portrait of a Lady On Fire_ is actually in my top 5 and maybe even _Bottoms, Little Women_ (1994) would be high in the overall list- but I wanted to list movies you didn't mention or I don't think you've seen. And then I just have to name these directors overall: Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, Catherine Breillat, and Joan Micklin Silver. It's hard listing just one of their films and they have many features to choose from that I've seen (unlike Anna Biller mentioned above who has only one feature film). Though, I would specifically recommend Jane Campion's _Bright Star_ (2009) to you. I have a feeling I might have already recommended it but there it is again just in case. 🩷💟🩷

[marioducoudray]

Like so many followers, I look forward to your YouTube videos, always pleasurable, always informative. 🥂

That said, you sounded so dismissive, “whenever we are talking about The Parent Trap we are never talking about the other movie”??? 🫤

It’s really all about which version one sees first. Once you see the original released in 1961, which played every year thereafter, on TV, on video, DVDs, throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and still does, the remake just doesn’t compare. Not in a literal sense but in an emotional one. 💗

The same holds true I suppose if you saw the remake first, released in 1998, you may prefer the one with Lohan over the original.

That “other” movie that you refer to is one of Disney’s biggest successes and starred British actress Hayley Mills.

There’s little doubt, if we polled public opinion in The States, the original movie would win hands down in popularity.

You’re missing the entire demographic over 30. 📈📊☺️