I ended up watching 107 films directed by women in 2019! Most of those I watched in the first six months of the year, and they’re listed here. For July to December, here are some of my favourites, which I have listed according to which place you can stream them from.
(As usual, please keep in mind that I am based in France and availability varies from country to country -- but we do tend to have less stuff available, rather than more, so you should be able to watch most of these regardless of where you are.)
Woman-directed films worth watching on Netflix
Life Overtakes Me (John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, 2019)
Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的, Mag Hsu and Hsu Chih-yen, 2018)
Birders (Otilia Portillo Padua, 2019)
Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema, 1999)
The Adversary (L’Adversaire, Nicole Garcia, 2002)
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh, 2011)
LuTo (Katina Medina Mora, 2015)
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (Eva Orner, 2019)
… and on Amazon Prime
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)
Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)
Foxfire (Annette Haywood-Carter, 1996)
Soldiers. Story From Ferentari (Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari, Ivana Mladenović, 2017)
John and Michael (John et Michael, Shira Avni, 2004)
Woman-directed short films to watch for free on Vimeo
In Full Bloom (Maegan Houang, 2019)
Marguerite (Marianne Farley, 2019)
And the final, 107-film list is under the cut!
Like Father (Lauren Miller Rogen, 2018)
Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle, 2018)
The Black Balloon (Elissa Down, 2008)
6 Balloons (Marja-Lewis Ryan, 2018)
Rosy (Jess Bond, 2018)
The Party’s Just Beginning (Karen Gillan, 2018)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2017)
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003)
Sadie (Megan Griffiths, 2018)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan, 2018)
Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002)
Abducted in Plain Sight (Skye Borgman, 2017)
Serena (Susanne Bier, 2014)
Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000)
And Breathe Normally (Andið Eðlilega, Ísold Uggadóttir, 2018)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (Susan Lacy, 2018)
Mademoiselle Paradis (Licht, Barbara Albert, 2017)
Vazante (Daniela Thomas, 2017)
Outfall (Suzi Ewing, 2018)
Smithereens (Susan Seidelman, 1982)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018)
The Breaker Upperers (Madeleine Sami and Jackie Van Beek, 2018)
Skin (Jordana Spiro, 2015)
Dirty John: The Dirty Truth (Sara Mast, 2019)
Holiday (Isabella Eklöf, 2018)
Generation Wealth (Lauren Greenfield, 2018)
The Rachel Divide (Laura Brownson, 2018)
What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si, Iram Haq, 2017)
Erasing Eden (Beth Dewey, 2016)
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018)
Unicorn Store (Brie Larson, 2019)
Presentation (Danielle Kampf, 2017)
Hedgehog (Lindsey Copeland, 2016)
24 Davids (Céline Baril, 2017)
Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
Mary Goes Round (Molly McGlynn, 2017)
Someone Great (Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 2019)
Ekaj (Cati Gonzalez, 2015)
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki, 2018)
Porcupine Lake (Ingrid Veninger, 2017)
The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Penelope Spheeris, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization III (Penelope Spheeris, 1998)
The Seen and the Unseen (Sekala Niskala, Kamila Andini, 2017)
Nkosi Coiffure (Frederike Migom, 2015)
Speak Your Truth (Kris Erickson, 2018)
Absences (Carole Laganière, 2013)
Murmur (Aurora Fearnley, 2018)
Pulsar (Aurora Fearnley, 2017)
Struck (Aurora Fearnley, 2017)
Samira (Lainey Richardson, 2018)
Despite Everything (A pesar de todo, Gabriela Tagliavini, 2019)
Satain Said Dance (Szatan kazał tańczyć, Katarzyna Rosłaniec, 2016)
Knock Down Ginger (Cleo Samoles-Little, 2016)
Gold (Cleo Samoles-Little, 2015)
Jane's Life (Cleo Samoles-Little, 2012)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Stacie Passon, 2018)
Always Be My Maybe (Nahnatchka Khan, 2019)
Gente que viene y bah (Patricia Font, 2019)
Period. End of Sentence. (Rayka Zehtabchi, 2018)
American Mary (Jen and Sylvia Soska, 2012)
E il cibo va (Food on the Go, Mercedes Cordova, 2017)
Last Night (Massy Tadjedin, 2010)
Elisa & Marcela (Elisa y Marcela, Isabel Coixet, 2019)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak, Mouly Surya, 2017)
The Garden (Sommerhaüser, Sonja Maria Kröner, 2017)
Fast Color (Julia Hart, 2018)
Rafiki (Wanuri Kahiu, 2018)
Floating! (Das Floß!, Julia C. Kaiser, 2015)
Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015)
The Long Dumb Road (Hannah Fidell, 2018)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
Life Overtakes Me (John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, 2019)
The Texture of Falling (Maria Allred, 2019)
Family (Laura Steinel, 2018)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
In Full Bloom (Maegan Houang, 2019)
Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)
Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)
I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow (Jessica Ashman, 2017)
Body at Brighton Rock (Roxanne Benjamin, 2019)
Perception (Ilana Rein, 2018)
Germany Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter, Helma Sanders Brahms, 1980)
Little Forest (리틀 포레스트, Yim Soon-rye, 2018)
Helen (Sandra Nettelbeck, 2009)
Out of Blue (Carol Morley, 2018)
Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的, Mag Hsu and Hsu Chih-yen, 2018)
Marguerite (Marianne Farley, 2019)
Birders (Otilia Portillo Padua, 2019)
Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema, 1999)
Game (Joy Webster, 2017)
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
Foxfire (Annette Haywood-Carter, 1996)
Rabid (The Soska Sisters, 2019)
The Adversary (L’Adversaire, Nicole Garcia, 2002)
Satanic Panic (Chelsea Stardust, 2019)
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh, 2011)
The Kitchen (Andrea Berloff, 2019)
Terminally Happy (Adina Istrate, 2015)
LuTo (Katina Medina Mora, 2015)
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (Eva Orner, 2019)
Soldiers. Story From Ferentari (Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari, Ivana Mladenović, 2017)
John and Michael (John et Michael, Shira Avni, 2004)
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner, 2019)
The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999)
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