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Recommended: Films Directed by Women

Including shorts and films co-directed by women.

Excluding some of the more obvious great and/or beloved films directed by women (e.g. no Portrait of a Lady on Fire or the 2019 Little Women--or the 1994 one, for that matter).

Should all be relatively easy to find, many of the more obscure ones on Vimeo. Links to a couple of especially obscure ones in the notes.

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  • Agent of Happiness
  • Ali & Ava
  • Always Shine
  • The Ascent
  • Bedevil
  • Beneath the Skin
  • Beyond the Lights
  • Black Christmas
  • Blood Bath
  • BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism
  • A Bunch of Amateurs
  • But I'm a Cheerleader
  • Casting JonBenet
  • The Chambermaid
  • The Changeling
  • Chez Jolie Coiffure
  • Chocolat
  • Coming Out
  • Corpo Celeste
  • Cow
  • Daguerréotypes
  • Daughters of the Dust
  • The Day I Became a Woman
  • The Decline of Western Civilization
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
  • De Djess
  • The Deeper You Dig
  • Desert Hearts
  • Diary of an African Nun
  • Dogfight
  • Double Agent 73
  • Drylongso
  • Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
  • Evolution
  • The Fandom
  • Fifi Howls from Happiness
  • Flex
  • Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
  • Four Women
  • Gender Troublemakers
  • Go Fish
  • The Green Planet
  • The Gulf of Silence
  • Hairat
  • Happening
  • Happy Birthday!
  • Harlan County U.S.A.
  • Her Story
  • Hester Street
  • The House Is Black
  • I Like Life a Lot
  • Illusions
  • Indecent Desires
  • Intimate Interviews: Bela Lugosi
  • Jacquot de Nantes
  • Jane Eyre
  • Josie and the Pussycats
  • Kedi
  • Kissed
  • Let the Corpses Tan
  • Liyana
  • Diary of a Pregnant Woman
  • Love and Anarchy
  • Love & Basketball
  • Madame's Cravings
  • Manivald
  • Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore
  • Messiah of Evil
  • Mister E
  • Mr. Wrong
  • Near Dark
  • Necessity: Transgender Kiss
  • Normal Appearances
  • The Novice
  • Nuts!
  • Old Joy
  • Orlando
  • The Pain of Others
  • Pale Blood
  • Permanent Record
  • Petite Maman
  • The Play
  • Polite Society
  • Possibly in Michigan
  • The Prince of Nothingwood
  • Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  • The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak
  • Queerama
  • Quo Vadis, Aida?
  • The Race for the Sausage
  • Ramona
  • Ravenous
  • River of Grass
  • Rosebud
  • Rye Lane
  • Sailing a Sinking Sea
  • Salomé
  • Saving Face
  • Second Coming