List of Foreign Films by Female Directors

  • 15. The Babadook

  • 5.7
      • MPAA
      • Unrated
  • Reeling from the loss of her husband and weighed down by her responsibility as a single mother, Amelia's life gets harder when a figure from a children's book, the Babadook, comes to life to terrorize...Read more her and her son.

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  • 14. One Night in Miami

  • 5.3
      • MPAA
      • R
  • As Cassius Clay earns the title of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, his celebrity doesn't protect him from the rules of the Jim Crow-era segregation laws. As he comes together with fellow...Read more icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown, they reflect on racial inequality in the US.

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  • 13. The Piano

  • 5.3
  • Set in the mid-19th century; after being married off to a man living in New Zealand, a mute Scottish woman sets sail with her daughter and beloved piano to the exotic remote land, where she is united...Read more with her new husband and longed for by his friend.


  • 12. We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • 0
  • Eva puts her life on hold to have a child with her husband, but after giving birth to Kevin, she struggles to bond with him, especially as he starts exhibiting unsettling tendencies and behaviors. But...Read more as Kevin's sociopathy reaches its limit, Eva is left to pick up the pieces.


  • 11. A League of Their Own

  • 5.3
      • MPAA
      • PG
  • This film depicts a fictionalized account of the real-life events surrounding the first women’s baseball league in the U.S. In 1943, when the events of World War II threatened to shut down Major...Read more League Baseball, a group of team owners decided to start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) is one of the star players recruited to start in the league, along with her kid sister, Kit (Lori Petty). The two sisters join the league, along with hundreds of other women, and they end up of becoming part of something much bigger than they ever imagined.


  • 10. Winter's Bone

  • 5
      • MPAA
      • R
  • When her father vanishes after putting their family home on the line, the teenage Ree is left with no choice but to go looking for him in the hopes of saving her family from a grim fate.


  • 9. Clueless

  • 5.3
  • Cher Horowitz is a popular Beverly Hills high school student who likes to meddle in other people's affairs. As she plays matchmaker with teachers and students, she begins to discover her own self in...Read more the process.


  • 8. Boys Don't Cry

  • 0
      • MPAA
      • R
  • The events, inspired by a true story, revolve around a young man named Brandon Teena who lives his life surfing, hanging out with his friends, and dating beautiful girls. However, after everyone...Read more discovers the truth about him, that he is a transgender man whose former name was Teena Brandon, his life quickly turns upside down and he is threatened with death.


  • 7. Little Women

  • 4.7
      • MPAA
      • PG
  • As the Civil War rages on, the March sisters and their mother face life on their own as the family's patriarch joins the war. Between societal pressures, financial difficulties, familial clashes, and...Read more romantic advances, the four sisters brave a turbulent reality with the aid of their outspoken mother.


  • 6. Nomadland

  • 5.6
      • مصري
      • All Ages
      • MPAA
      • R
  • After losing everything she has in the Great Recession, Fern decides to leave her old life behind and embarks on a journey through the American West, as she becomes a modern-day nomad.

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