Charulata (1964), Female (1933), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Devi (1960), The Home and the World (1984), The Piano (1993), Tristana (1970), Thelma & Louise (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Female Awakening movies.
Storyline: Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She sends to New York City for a reformed gangster she had befriended, Frankie O'Fallon, and he hires the manpower needed from the usual Columbia hoods. Her gang hi-jacks the racketeers, recovers the merchant's money and returns it to them. Lila Thorne, engaged to Hattie' son, Fred, throws in with her future mother-in-law when she sees the old lady is fighting for the American principle of freedom of choice...and action. Lila frames the gang-leader, George Watson, and Hattie's big-city vigilantes kidnap him, and extract the information that the town-mayor, Johnny "J.J." Jones, is the brains behind the protection-gang and is getting the big cut of the money. But Hattie still has to rob a bank before she can secure the evidence needed to convict the mayor. All in a day's work for a crusading society dame.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, gangster, female-led, 1930s, vintage, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Plot Keywords: history, feminism, beauty pageant, 1970s, true story, social movement, gender equality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lord Terence Datchett is a "confirmed bachelor" who doesn't really have much use for women. He meets up with a French movie star, Colette Marly, and takes a dislike to her, especially when it seems that she is deliberately trying to ruin his evening. He reads that the fetching Miss Marly is "bored" with men and, suspecting that it is a publicity stunt on her part, pretends to be a real-estate agent trying to sell her his country estate, all the while planning to "expose" her. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, black comedy, satire, social critique, classic film, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend. After securing Gil's appointment, Abbott is crushed to learn of Billie's impending marriage. What Billie didn't count on was Gil getting Kentucky pregnant. This throws her wedding day into scandal and creates turmoil in the lives of the youthful quartet.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, drama, american film, black and white, 1920s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1938, Ailian is the forty years old wife of a wealthy man, Mr. Wu, who belongs to the traditional Wu Family in China. In order to get rid off her sexual obligations with her husband, Ailian gives Chiuming, a very young concubine to him. Andre is an American priest and doctor who takes care of an orphanage and becomes the tutor of her eighteen years old son Fengmo Wu. Father Andre starts giving classes to Fengmo, Ailian and Chiuming. Then, two forbidden loves will rise: between the priest and the first wife, and between the son and the concubine, having the invasion of China by the Japanese in a big picture.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, historical, china, family, women, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adapted from Flaubert's classic novel, Madame Bovary tells the tragic story of Emma (Wasikowska), a young beauty who impulsively marries a small-town doctor (Lloyd-Hughes) to leave her father's (Giamatti) pig farm behind. But after being introduced to the glamorous world of high society, she soon becomes bored with her stodgy mate and seeks excitement and status outside the bonds of marriage.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, literary adaptation, france, 19th century, marriage, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The family of 12-year-old Xiao Xiao (Liu Qing) arranges her marriage to 2-year-old Chun Guan (Zhang Yu) and sends her to a remote, rural village where she lives with her prospective in-laws and raises the boy mostly by herself. Four years later, Xiao Xiao (Na Renhua) succumbs to the charms of handsome farmhand Hua Gou (Deng Xiao-quang) but finds her reputation in danger. In a world where dishonored women can be put to death, Xiao Xiao's future is far from certain.
Plot Keywords: rural life, family tragedy, female awakening, struggle for survival, social criticism, exploration of humanity, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The women of a remote Latin American town are forced to pick up the pieces and remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, female-led, small-town life, latin america, gender roles, female empowerment ...
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