Men Don't Leave (1990), Career Girls (1997), Primrose Path (1940), Girl Flu (2016), Loving Annabelle (2006), Ladies in Love (1936), Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951), Baby Done (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Female Growth movies.
Storyline: After her husband's death, Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) moves into an inexpensive Baltimore apartment with her two sons, Chris (Chris O'Donnell) and Matt (Charlie Korsmo). When Beth accepts a job at a local grocery store, Chris grows bitter and falls for an older woman (Joan Cusack), while 9-year-old Matt hides his grief behind a new interest in burglary. As the Macauleys adjust to their new life, they learn that sticking together is the only way to overcome their loss.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, comedy, female growth, single parent, mother-son relationship, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Career girls opens with a train journey towards London's Kings Cross where Annie, one of the major characters is about to meet her old university friend Hannah. She recalls moving into a grotty student flat with Hannah in the mid-eighties. In those days Annie was self conscious and jumpy. The pair have not seen one another since graduation. They both now have moderately successful careers and are, at least on the surface, self assured in their new lives. However, they are still carrying a lot of emotional baggage from their university days. During the course of a weekend they rediscover their close friendship and encounter many faces from the past.—Sophie Cockcroft
Plot Keywords: drama, female friendship, coming of age, memory, british film, independent film, emotion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, comedy, family, social issues, coming of age, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this double coming-of-age comedy, Bird, 12 - wise beyond her years - finds herself having to take care of her fun-but-flighty stoner of a mom, Jenny. When Bird is humiliated by getting her first period at the school picnic, the delicate balance at home blows up as both mother and daughter struggle to discover what it really means to become a woman.—DB
Plot Keywords: coming of age, female growth, comedy, drama, mother-daughter relationship, adolescence, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly between her and her teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues Simone relentlessly until Simone must make a choice between following her heart and doing what's right.
Plot Keywords: romance, lesbian, teacher-student relationship, drama, independent film, forbidden love, school setting ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a businessman. The first girl gets a shop of her own.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, women, 1930s, hollywood, romantic, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Boy (Gordon) meets girl (Florence), sharing an interest in tennis. But Florence has a supremely ambitious mother who intends to push her ahead regardless (she barely knows her own husband exists). Florence's tennis career rapidly advances, thanks to mother's manipulation and a promotion-minded coach; building toward the inevitable conflict between the fulfilment of Mother's dreams...and daughter's.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sports film, female director, 1950s, mother-daughter relationship, family conflict, female perspective, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wannabe-adventurer Zoe freaks out when she falls pregnant to her long-term boyfriend Tim. As Tim embraces the prospect of fatherhood, Zoe attempts to rush through her dreams.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, pregnancy, new zealand film, light-hearted comedy, romantic, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After her husband's sudden death, Libby is forced to move in with her hypercritical mother. Out of the blue her estranged Aunt Jean offers an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Life on Aunt Jean's goat farm is more wonderful and mysterious than Libby could have imagined. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is quiet--deep, country quiet. But there is also a shaggy, gruff farm manager with a tragic home life, a feed-store clerk who claims she can contact her husband on "the other side," and the eccentric aunt she never really knew but who turns out to be exactly who she needs.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, romance, healing, country life, female growth, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.—Cleo <frede005@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, love, friendship, marriage, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Ninas husband goes off for a few weeks to work, she meets and starts seeing a photographer. This story is told as an interview by a journalist writing about adultery who is talking with both Nina and the photographer in separate interviews. Through him, we learn much about the couple and their attitudes on adultery.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, indie film, female perspective, new york, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three women are apartment mates: one is about to be married, another discovers she is pregnant by her long-standing boyfriend and a third has a endless queue of men in and out of her bedroom. Sudden jilting leads them to Vegas.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, wedding, female, friendship, new york, indie film ...
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