Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998), Tuya's Marriage (2006), Little Sister (2015), A Regular Woman (2019), Peppermint Soda (1979), Sunflower (1970), The Third Wife (2018), Red Sorghum (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Female movies.
Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Zadong's regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named Xiu Xiu (Lu Lu), to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Xiu Xiu is torn away from her caring relatives and close friends to live and work with Lao Jin (Lopsang), a rancher. Though he treats Xiu Xiu kindly, she yearns for her old life and eventually turns to a degrading life of prostitution in hopes of earning the means to return home.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, cultural revolution, youth, coming of age, tragedy, female ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Married to and in love with disabled peasant Ba'toer, Tuya (Yu Nan) is forced to divorce him and find a new husband to support both them and their two children when an injury leaves her unable to work. After a series of men refuse to look after Ba'toer, Tuya finds herself torn between wealthy, recently divorced oilman and schoolmate Bao'lier, who promises to provide for her husband's medical care, and her neighbor, Sen'ge, whose wife has recently left him.
Plot Keywords: romance, marriage, family, tradition, modern life, female, independence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, comedy, independent film, american film, youth, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A German woman of Turkish descent struggles to achieve the life she wants. Faced by opposition and threats from her family, she leaves.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, based on a true story, female, social issues, domestic violence, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anne (Eleonore Klarwein), age 13, lives with her divorced mother (Anouk Ferjac) and big sister Frederique (Odile Michel) in Paris, and cannot seem to grow up fast enough. She yearns to wear stockings, which her mother strictly forbids, and to enjoy the mature beverage of peppermint soda at a nearby cafe. As she becomes increasingly aware of boys, Anne takes to steaming open Frederique's letters so as to vicariously experience her sister's burgeoning and troubled romance.
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, female, school, sisters, friendship, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Italian bride (Sophia Loren) finds her long-lost soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) living in Moscow with amnesia and a wife (Lyudmila Saveleva) and daughter.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, family, rural, cultural revolution, chinese cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 19th-century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.
Plot Keywords: drama, vietnam, historical, female, marriage, family, society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The narrator tells a folk tale of his grandparents (Gong Li, Wen Jiang), their distillery and Japanese invaders in China.
Plot Keywords: war, romance, history, rural, family, tragedy, female ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An auto-company president (Ruth Chatterton) finds her right-hand man (George Brent) by process of elimination.
Plot Keywords: drama, female, classic, black and white, american film, early cinema, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inspired by true events and shot on location in New Orleans, LA. GEMMA BROWN and MARNI WILKINS and their families have been best friends since they were babies. At five, when Marni lost her mother, she was left with an unfulfilled soul. It was a devastating loss, but thankfully her best friend, Gemma and her family were always by her side. Now ten years later, Marni has the opportunity to find that lost connection with her mother when she learns that her mother's favorite poet, SAMANTHA BANKS will be teaching at a distinguished magnet school for the arts in their area. The two friends are both excited to apply. Gemma gets accepted, however they soon learn that Marni's father has neglectfully missed the registration deadline. Realizing that her dreams of getting to know her mother may disappear, Gemma convinces Marni to do something drastic. Things don't go as quite planned, but the two girls learn a valuable lesson about race, identity, politics, friendship and growing up in this poignant, yet tender, 'coming of age' story.—NGC
Plot Keywords: youth, friendship, coming of age, comedy, school, romance, female ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.
Plot Keywords: animation, biography, drama, history, war, iran, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cleo is one of two domestic workers who help Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in 1970s Mexico City. Complications soon arise when Antonio suddenly runs away with his mistress and Cleo finds out that she's pregnant. When Sofía decides to take the kids on vacation, she invites Cleo for a much-needed getaway to clear her mind and bond with the family.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, mexico, black and white, female, class, society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, fantasy, mystery, art, female, destiny ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Val spends 13 years working as nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She is financially stable but has to live with the guilt of having left her daughter Jéssica, in Pernambuco, in the northeast of Brazil, raised by relatives. As college entrance exams roll around, Jéssica wants to come to São Paulo to take her college entrance exams too. When Jéssica arrives, cohabitation is not easy. Everyone will be affected by the personality and candor of the girl and Val finds herself right in the middle of it.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social, class, conflict, coming of age, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adèle is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. She dreams of something more. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adèle's friends reject due to her sexuality, and by association most begin to reject Adèle. Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself openly. Together, Adèle and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality, and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship.
Plot Keywords: romance, homosexual, coming of age, french cinema, drama, female, sex ...
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