The Talk of the Town (1942), Little Women (1994), Testament of Youth (2014), Mansfield Park (1999), When Ladies Meet (1933), Orchids and Ermine (1927), The Fuller Brush Girl (1950), Queen for a Day (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Female Independence movies.
Storyline: In suburban Lochester, New England, three people end up living together in high school teacher Nora Shelley's rental house. The first is her new tenant, renowned Harvard law professor Michael Lightcap, who has rented the house for the summer while he writes his new book. The second is Nora herself. Despite having an auspicious first meeting, Lightcap hires Nora to be his live-in cook and secretary for a week until his manservant Tilney arrives. The third is Joseph, the property's gardener, who is currently laid up with a sprained ankle. In reality, Joseph is Nora's childhood friend Leopold Dilg, who has just escaped from prison. Leopold was being tried for the arson of the factory where he worked, and for murder for the death of the factory foreman Clyde Bracken, whose body was never recovered but who is assumed to have died in the fire. Despite the danger to herself, Nora hides Leopold since she believes his story that although he, as an activist, did speak out about the dangerous conditions at the factory, he did not set the fire, which he assumes was done by the factory's owner, Andrew Holmes, to collect the insurance money, all the while having Leopold as a scapegoat. Nora campaigned to get the job with Lightcap if only to be able to better hide Leopold in the house. Leopold escaped if only because he knew he would not get a fair trial due to the rabble rousing being conducted by Holmes against him. Lightcap and who he knows as Joseph end up getting along famously, although activist Leopold believes Lightcap's view of the law is too clinical for him truly to be a great lawyer or great judge, those thoughts arising if only because Nora and Leopold learn clandestinely that Lightcap is being appointed to the Supreme Court. Nora, Leopold and Leopold's lawyer, Sam Yates, try to get Lightcap involved in helping Leopold by showing him that Leopold indeed will not get a fair trial. In the process, Lightcap may in turn show Leopold and Nora that his current way of thinking has much merit.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, courtroom drama, love triangle, fugitive, misunderstanding, hidden identity, law and justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Plot Keywords: female coming-of-age, family dynamics, sisterhood, social class, female independence, moral dilemmas, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A long, long time ago, back in the spring of 1914, they were so happy together. There was Vera Brittain, an upper class girl with ideas of her own; and her bright brother Edward; and his group of friends among whom Roland Leighton, wonderful, handsome, sensitive Roland Vera had fallen for... Always having great times together talking, laughing, exchanging ideas, walking, eating, swimming together; all of them envisioning the glittering future they deserved: Vera, despite her father's opposition, would study at Oxford, marry Roland and be a famous writer; Roland, as for him, would be acclaimed as a great poet while Edward and his friends would each become a prominent figure in his respective field... But then came that fateful day on 4 August 1914 when Britain declared war on Germany. All those beautiful dreams were to be shattered one after the other. All except one: Vera wound up becoming a writer... A writer but a pacifist as well.
Plot Keywords: war, romance, biography, historical, world war i, female coming-of-age, british literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. Thomas promotes this match, but to his displeasure, Fanny has a mind of her own, asking Henry to prove himself worthy. As Edmund courts Henry's sister and as light shines on the link between Thomas's fortunes and New World slavery, Fanny must assess Henry's character and assert her heart as well as her wit.
Plot Keywords: british literature, jane austen, romance, family drama, social class, female perspective, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, classic film, romance, drama, marriage, love triangle, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, american film, 1920s, black and white, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics door-to-door are disastrous. She and her fiance Humphrey get involved in a smuggling scheme and she becomes the prime suspect in first one and then a second murder. She and Humphrey find themselves dodging the police while trying to catch the real killers.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, black comedy, female lead, 1950s, american film, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of vignettes linked together with the popular radio show of the same name, where women publicly reveal why they deserve to be Queen for the Day.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, comedy, romance, female lead, beauty pageant, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, workplace, 1930s, american film, classic, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charlie Reader is a successful theater agent. He is also successful with young ladies. One day he is visited by his old friend Joe, married with three children. Joe falls in love with Charlie's girl Sylvia while Charlie spends his time with young actress Julie.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, love, marriage, new york, 1950s, female independence, dating culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poor but honest and hardworking waitress from way across the tracks meets and falls in love with a college student from the upper-stuffy class, but the Mama of the intended objects to the romance. Her objections even lead her to having the waitress framed and sent to a prison work-farm for three months. Upon her release, the waitress finds instant stardom in the show business...and the social class she was lacking. Big Mama withdraws her objections.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick Smith instead; he welcomes the confusion of identity and sets out to win her by force of personality alone. It's an uphill battle. Lots of wry repartee.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, romantic comedy, 1930s, classic film, black and white, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one of the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, ireland, small town life, social norms, single mother, traditional values ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, marriage, women, social issues, romance, comedy ...
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 ...
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