Mysoginy and sexism: some great critical movies
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- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn LeguizamoAdrien BrodyMira SorvinoSpike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsJulia StocklerCarol DuarteFlávia GusmãoKept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.
- DirectorSam LevinsonStarsOdessa YoungAbraSuki WaterhouseAfter a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
- DirectorNora TwomeyStarsSaara ChaudrySoma ChhayaNoorin GulamgausIn 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimBushraMaged El-KidwaniUnfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of sexual harassment in Egypt.
- DirectorJean-Pierre Dikongue-PipaStarsPhilippe AbiaArlette Din BeliGisèle Dikongue-PipaNgando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsWaad MohammedReem AbdullahAbdullrahman Al GohaniAn enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
- DirectorEléonore PourriatStarsVincent ElbazMarie-Sophie FerdanePierre BenezitA shameless chauvinist gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated by women and locks horns with a powerful female author.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiJingwu MaSaifei HeChina in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.
- DirectorShola LynchStarsAngela DavisEisa DavisBrandon J. DirdenA documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- DirectorEléonore PourriatStarsPierre BenezitTom ColomerJosie Borrelly-LlopA day in the life of a man suffering from everyday sexism in a world ruled by women.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsJulie AndrewsDick Van DykeDavid TomlinsonIn turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
- DirectorSarah GavronStarsCarey MulliganAnne-Marie DuffHelena Bonham CarterIn 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
- DirectorKhadija Al-SalamiStarsReham MohammedNaziha AlansiRana MohammedTen year old Jemenite girl asks a judge in Sana'a to grant her a divorce from a horrible marriage, after she was married away to prevent a public scandal after a rape of her sister.
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsRegina CaséLima DuarteStênio GarciaA true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
- DirectorFlorian GallenbergerStarsEmma WatsonDaniel BrühlMichael NyqvistA young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.
- DirectorJoão Batista de AndradeStarsAntônio FagundesLouise CardosoMayara MagriTV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighborhood.
- DirectorKonrad WolfWolfgang KohlhaaseStarsRenate KrößnerAlexander LangHeide KippSunny is a singer in a band which is constantly on the road. She therefore leads a relatively restless life, which she cannot afford to give up, having to rely on the fee she gets paid..
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.Funny and sad.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsMartin LandauWoody AllenBill BernsteinAn ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsLéa SeydouxVincent LindonClotilde MolletA scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.Not great, indeed...
- CreatorBruce MillerStarsElisabeth MossYvonne StrahovskiAnn DowdSet in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.Honorable mention: Amazing TV series!!!
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJon FinchBarry FosterBarbara Leigh-HuntA serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKirk DouglasRalph MeekerAdolphe MenjouAfter a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.Not a core issue, but present in the brilliant latest scene.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsMarion CotillardFabrizio RongioneCatherine SaléeLiège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.Not the central issue, but it is there.
- DirectorGarth DavisStarsRooney MaraJoaquin PhoenixChiwetel EjioforTwelve men heard and spread the message of Jesus. Only one woman understood it.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaJosé WilkerMauro MendonçaIn a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsChadwick BosemanNelsan EllisDan AykroydA chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
- DirectorDon BluthGary GoldmanStarsJodi BensonGary ImhoffGino ConfortiThis retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen classic fairy tale has the digit-sized heroine evading the clutches of various toads, moles, and beetles before she can proceed with her courtship with her dream lover, Prince Cornelius.
- DirectorAlex Levy-HellerStarsJacqueline LaurenceEmílio Orciollo NettoLorena CastanheiraThe story of the famous "Polacas", Jewish women deceived into prostitution in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1900's. Ricardo interviews Mrs. Mira, who struggles to bring back memories from her mother's past as a Polaca.
- DirectorIvan CardosoJohn HerbertStarsCarla CamuratiPaulo César GrandeCarina CooperThe film consists of two stories: the first one takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and the second one, of a more political character, takes place during the 1964 Coup in Brazil.
- DirectorGabriela AmaralStarsMurilo BenícioLuciana PaesIrandhir SantosThe tense survival tale is set over several late-night hours in a sparsely-peopled Brazilian restaurant. When an armed robbery interrupts an already-terse dynamic between boss and customer, a group of virtual strangers are tossed into a frantic fight for their lives.
- DirectorSusanna LiraStarsDilma RousseffAna Bursztyn-MirandaMaria Aparecida Costa"The Virgin's Tower" - Memoires of a group of rebel women that were imprisioned by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60's.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsMilton RodríguezVanja OricoMaurício do VallePedro Boiadeiro goes after a gang of cangaceiros to avenge the brutal rape and death of his newly-wed wife.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsTarcísio MeiraNey LatorracaLídia BrondiWhen a pedestrian is hit by a bus, simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the body in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, they accuse Arandir of homosexuality. Further, they say that the victim was his lover and Arandir killed him out of jealousy. Meanwhile, his father-in-law Aprígio who does not like him goes to the suburban village to tell his daughters, Arandir's beloved wife Selminha and her sister Dália, that Arandir is at the police station. The next morning, when the newspapers are distributed, Arandir is in the headline and later is humiliated in his work and in the village where his family lives. While Amado and Cunha manipulate the event and witnesses, common bigoted people believe that Arandir is gay and a killer, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsPaulo JoséMarília PêraVick MilitelloIn 1940s São Paulo, a bohemian guy engages in love affairs with two daughters of a friend of his mother's, but ends up marrying an ill-humored woman with whom he quarrels all the time.
- DirectorHelena IgnezFakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This show of popular art from the circus is presented and analyzed through a collection that reveals the success of these presentations with their championships of resistance to pain and the great presence of the public.
- DirectorGabriel Di GiacomoStarsAdilson Paes de SouzaLuiz Eduardo SoaresFelipe ZolesiBrazil has the most lethal police in the world and it reflects directly in the violent performance during the street demonstrations: leaving people blind, injured and dozens of political prisoners. Situations that remind us of the times of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) and threaten the freedom of speech. This violent march still continues, but we cannot see our way through the dense cloud of tear gas.
- DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsNuno Leal MaiaCláudia LizLúcia VeríssimoPaulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsFernando TeixeiraCaio BlatMatheus NachtergaeleA man gets obsessed by a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
- DirectorTaísa EnnesStarsLaís AulerMartha BritoRafael DuarteTwo wacky scientists come up with a plan to help all men on Earth.
- DirectorJosé Mojica MarinsStarsJosé Mojica MarinsMagda MeiNivaldo LimaA gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son.
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsRenaudGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouIn mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
- DirectorJenna RickerStarsJanet GuthrieMario AndrettiBuddy BakerIn May 1977 Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to attempt the Indianapolis 500.
- DirectorDenis MallevalStarsFlore BonaventuraMacha MérilLouise HerreroFrance 1943. Two pretty and different girls, Alice and Lisette, 17, are torn from their families by the Germans and, along with many other Alsatians, sent to labor in Germany.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsRoberto HerlitzkaPier Giorgio BellocchioLidiya LibermanBalancing between the past and the present, the darkness and the light, within the musky stone walls of Santa Chiara's 17th-century convent prison in Bobbio, a sinful Sister and a cultivated night owl Count are somehow linked together.
- DirectorMarco DutraStarsLeonardo SbaragliaCarolina DieckmannChino DarínShattered after the brutal assault by two rapists in her house, a young mother of two decides to keep her ordeal secret from her unsuspecting husband.
- DirectorLiz MarinsStarsLiz MarinsCheli UrbanFernando Oliveira
- DirectorCarlos ReichenbachStarsRenan AugustoMarcelo BortottoFernanda Carvalho LeiteIn Sao Paulo, the betrayed wife of Americo Baldini, a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After his girlfriend's consequent suicide, Baldini has his illegitimate son, a 17 year old, kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. To protect the operation, the Senator chooses a former mistress in her late 50s, the now-nurse Serena (Betty Faria), to take care of the kidnapped illegitimate son during his secret captivity. Isolated in this forgotten beach at the end of the world, kidnapped son and his father's older mistress become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.
- DirectorSimon WestStarsJohn TravoltaMadeleine StoweJames CromwellWhen the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
- DirectorMárcio VenturiStarsFernando Alves PintoInez ViegasOne reality. Two actors. Three couples in crisis.
- StarsJan CinaJenovéfa BokováMartin FingerDuring the Communist regime, a struggling actor joins the KGB as an informant to manage to make a living. He soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of deception and betrayal.
- DirectorClaire DuguetStarsLaurent LedererSarah-Jane SauvegrainJoin us in the jazzy USA of the 1930s and meet Betty Boop, the first female protagonist in cartoons. Despite her innocent voice, well-turned spiers and bedroom look, she really was no weapon. How do we see Betty today?
- DirectorNiki CaroStarsKeisha Castle-HughesRawiri ParateneVicky HaughtonA contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
- DirectorCarlo MossyStarsJaime BarcellosJotta BarrosoEstelita BellA lawyer leaves his career and fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his family.
- DirectorJulia Zanin de PaulaStarsCarlo CancelliDelson RabelloMarcos SigalesAn adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant's tale, a film about how far we can go with entertainment.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsMozart CintraIvan De SouzaLuiz Paulino Dos SantosDespite being promised to another man, a young orphaned woman falls in love with man working at the farm she lives in , and together they escape. According tradition in Northeast Brazil, her aunt goes after them, in order to kill them for revenge.
- DirectorLourenço VazStarsSofia MirpuriNuno SeabraVicthor Borrén DiasAfter her tragic death, a young woman finds herself in purgatory where she is misjudged by an all-male jury.
- DirectorAlice GuyIn a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
- DirectorAi WeiweiStarsIsraa AbboudHiba AbedRami Abu SondosHuman Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsAdèle HaenelOlivier BonnaudJérémie RenierA doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
- DirectorMichael O'SheaStarsEric RuffinKarin CherchesChloë LevineWhen troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
- DirectorOzualdo Ribeiro CandeiasStarsMário BenvenuttiValeria VidalBentinhoAbout people who live by the margins or Rio Tietê, in São Paulo, Brazil.
- DirectorCristiano BurlanIn front of impunity, the film immerses in a vertiginous journey to rebuild Isabel's image and life.
- DirectorJosé Antonio GarciaStarsAntônio FagundesMarieta SeveroCláudia JimenezXavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer.
- DirectorAlexandra JoussetPhilippe LagnierStarsAlexandra AlévêqueSteve BannonCarlos BolsonaroFifteen years ago, social networks were seen as a new democratic ferment that, by promoting the dissemination of information and horizontal communication between citizens, would help people break their chains, from Eastern Europe to the Arab world. The story is different: the assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters, the chaotic reign of his counterpart Jair Bolsonaro, the offensives targeting Muslims in Narendra Modi's India, or the dazzling success of the racist slogans of Italian League leader Matteo Salvini have highlighted the devastating power on a global scale of the calls to hatred and disinformation that circulate in real time on social media.
- DirectorJocelyn MoorhouseStarsKate WinsletJudy DavisLiam HemsworthA glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
- DirectorMarco EscrivãoThiago B. MendonçaStarsAida Dos SantosKanzelumukaCarlos Alberto LancettaRecovering someone silenced by dictatorship. 'Pursuing Irenice' is the search for a forgotten athlete. A story erased by the military.
- DirectorMarcos SchechtmanStarsDomingos MontagnerNaura SchneiderGeorgina CastroGraça and Raul are a couple who fall madly in love. The two marry and have two daughters, creating a perfect family. Raul gradually becomes aggressive and possessive with his wife, resulting in frequent violence.
- DirectorVanessa de Araújo SouzaStarsAdélia BorgesAna Marina Barbará PinheiroCarla RodriguesThey were born to take care of the home and children. They became warlike and politicized women, capable of seizing all weapons in the struggle for a return to democracy and against sexist structures of power.
- DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsValerie PachnerPia HierzeggerMavie HörbigerA high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsStella RabelloFelipe RochaRenato LinharesStela, a young Brazilian actress, decides to do a work on the letters exchanged between Latin American visual artists in the 70s and 80s. She travels to Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Chile in search of her works and testimonies about the reality they lived during the dictatorships that most of these countries faced at the time. Amid the investigation, Stela discovers the existence of Ana, a young Brazilian woman who was part of this world, but disappeared. In 1968, Ana went from the south of Brazil, from a small country town, to the effervescent Buenos Aires, which was experiencing a moment of change in visual arts and behavior. Obsessed with the character, Stela decides to find her and find out what happened to her. The film is loosely inspired by the play There is more future than past.
- DirectorDanishka EsterhazyStarsNiamh WilsonJorja CadencePatrice GoodmanAn immigrant bride to a battered wife into an unlikely media sensation.
- DirectorLeigh WhannellStarsElisabeth MossOliver Jackson-CohenHarriet DyerWhen Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
- DirectorAndre Alves PintoStarsZé AlexBruno BennecHugo Germano
- DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonViola DavisStephen McKinley HendersonA working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodSondra LockePat HingleWhen a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxClarence WilliamsStarsClarence BrooksDorothy Van EngleAndrew BishopA black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
- DirectorLuiz Carlos LacerdaStarsLouise CardosoPaulo César GrandeDiogo VilelaA star studded biography of Brazilian legend Leila Diniz, born in 1945 to a communist couple. She grows up to be an extraordinary woman in her own, undefinable, and unique style, unheard of in Brazilian society. She causes the greatest scandals of her times and breaks social taboos through her association with her best friend, and enters show business, working with several lovers becoming Brazil's greatest star. She achieves this in spite of arrests, prison sentences and other threats from the military government who regarded her as subversive. At 26, she has a child by then lover/director, but shortly thereafter, in a tragic jet explosion, returning from an Australian film festival, dies a very premature death in 1972.
- DirectorCarlos CoimbraStarsMaurício do ValleLeila DinizMilton RibeiroAfter Lampião's death, the cangaceiro Corisco and his wife prepare to leave their small town, but they are captured by Lieutenant Zé Rufino. Wounded, Corisco recalls the facts that made him one of the most feared cangaceiros in the northeast.
- DirectorEva OrnerStarsLarissa AndersonFrancesca AsumahSarah BaughnTracing from his rise in the 1970s to his disgrace in accusations of rape and sexual harassment in more recent years.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroNick NolteJessica LangeA convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsWillem DafoeHarvey KeitelBarbara HersheyThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.
- DirectorMarta SavinaStarsClaudia GusmanoFabrizio FerracaneFrancesco ColellaA young woman in rural Italy of the 1960's is violently forced into marriage and fights for justice.
- DirectorPaola CortellesiStarsPaola CortellesiValerio MastandreaRomana Maggiora VerganoSet in postwar 1940s Italy, it follows Delia breaking traditional family patterns and aspiring to a different future, after receiving a mysterious letter.
- DirectorLee FrostStarsRod PerryCharles RobinsonPhil HooverGeneral Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob's next victim?
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraGonzalo SuárezLuis HostalotThe vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
- DirectorMaurice CapovillaStarsRossana GhessaJohn HerbertPaulo JoséPoor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEmma StoneMark RuffaloWillem DafoeAn account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
- DirectorZelito VianaStarsIsabel RibeiroClaudio MarzoRoberto BataglinIn São Paulo, during the 1920s, a woman who is loved by a telegraphist and seduced by a slacker ends up in prostitution.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
- DirectorMaria SchraderStarsZoe KazanCarey MulliganPatricia ClarksonJodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's quest to break the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
- DirectorHugo PrataStarsIsis ValverdeGabriel Braga NunesAlice CarvalhoAfter a turbulent separation and having to give up custody of her three children, the famous socialite Ângela Diniz meets Raul, and believes she has found someone who loves her free spirit as much as she does.