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Tár
Todd Field
2022
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.
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The Piano
Jane Campion
1993
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
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Bridesmaids
Paul Feig
2011
Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride’s best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
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Mean Girls
Mark Waters
2004
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
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Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi
2018
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister’s wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
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Paprika
Satoshi Kon
2006
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients’ dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
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In Front of Your Face
Hong Sang-soo
2021
She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden rainfall and thunder.
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Hanna
Joe Wright
2011
A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
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Atomic Blonde
David Leitch
2017
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
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Space Sweepers
Sung-hee Jo
2021
Set in the year 2092 and follows the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory. When they discover a humanoid robot named Dorothy that’s known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal.
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Black Widow
Cate Shortland
2021
Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
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The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg
2022
Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
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Enola Holmes
Harry Bradbeer
2022
When Enola Holmes-Sherlock’s teen sister-discovers her mother is missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.
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Alma’s Rainbow
and the rights women have over their bodies., self-image, The life of teenager Rainbow Gold as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty
1994
The life of teenager Rainbow Gold as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies.
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Little Women
Greta Gerwig
2009
Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
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Promising Young Woman
Emerald Fennell
2020
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
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Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson
2021
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold
1999
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
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Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky
2010
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”.
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Miss Sloane
John Madden
2016
In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. But when taking on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds winning may come at too high a price.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies
Halina Reijn
2022
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
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She’s the Man
Andy Fickman
2006
When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for his school’s star soccer player, and soon learns she’s not the only one with romantic troubles.
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Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino
2022
Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
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Alien
Ridley Scott
1979
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma
2019
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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Hidden Figures
Theodore Melfi
2016
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
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Tully
Jason Reitman
2018
A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.
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The Breadwinner
Nora Twomey
2017
In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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Lingui
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
2021
Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
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Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook
2022
A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains meets the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
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Dune
Denis Villeneuve
2021
A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy’s most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.
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A Star is Born
Bradley Cooper
2018
A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Midwives
Hnin Ei Hlaing
2022
Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.
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Enchanted
Kevin Lima
2007
A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.
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La La Land
Damien Chazelle
2016
While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen
2022
The unexpected story of Parks and her life beyond the historic bus boycott, revealing the intent behind her activism, her radical politics and her courage.
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Framing Agnes
Chase Joynt
2022
FRAMING AGNES turns the talk show format inside out in response to media’s ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
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Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2001
Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.
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Frozen 2
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
2019
Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa’s powers in order to save their kingdom.
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Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón
2013
Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.
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It Follows
David Robert Mitchell
2014
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
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Midsommar
Ari Aster
2019
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
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The Fire That Took Her
Patricia E. Gillespie
2022
The case of Judy Malinowski, a young mother who suffered debilitating burns after being set on fire by a man she had dated.
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Don’t Worry Darling
Olivia Wilde
2022
A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company could be hiding disturbing secrets.
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Battle of the Sexes
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
2017
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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Piggy
Carlota Pereda
2022
An overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.
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Mamma Mia!
Phyllida Lloyd
2008
The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
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Bad Axe
David Siev
2022
A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.
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The Heat
Paul Feig
2013
An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.
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Being Thunder
Stéphanie Lamorré
2021
Sherente, a two spirit-genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island’s Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual regional pow wows of New England tribes
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The Danish Girl
Tom Hooper
2015
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
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Persepolis
Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
2007
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
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Baseball Girl
Yuntae Choi
2019
A female high school baseball player strives to overcome the barrier of getting into the male-dominated professional baseball team.
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Donald Petrie
2003
Ben bets his coworkers that he can make a woman fall in love with him in just 10 days. But along comes Andie, a writer with her own agenda.
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A Quiet Place
John Krasinski
2018
In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.
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Herstory
Kyu-dong Min
2018
10 plaintiffs who suffered as comfort woman during World War II and their 13 lawyers stand in a courtroom in Japan. They have gone through 23 difficult trials from 1992 to 1998.
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Turning Red
Domee Shi
2022
A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
2000
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
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The Princess and the Frog
Ron Clements and John Musker
2009
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
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House of Gucci
Ridley Scott
2021
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately…murder.
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Frozen
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
2013
When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition.
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Carol
Todd Haynes
2015
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
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Howl’s Moving Castle
Hayao Miyazaki
2004
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
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Thor: Ragnarok
Taika Waititi
2017
Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
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I Care a Lot
Jake Blakeson
2020
A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.
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Julie & Julia
Nora Ephron
2009
Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book.
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Till
Chinonye Chukwu
2022
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
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Lorena, Light-footed Woman
Juan Carlos Rulfo
2019
A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities, wins ultramarathons seemingly out of nowhere despite running in sandals.
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Tomboy
Céline Sciamma
2011
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.
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Leonor Will Never Die
Martika Ramirez Escobar
2022
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
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On the Basis of Sex
Mimi Leder
2018
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
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My Neighbor Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki
1988
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
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The Devil Wears Prada
David Frankel
2006
A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
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The Old Guard
Gina Prince-Bythewood
2020
A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered.
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But I’m a Cheerleader
Jamie Babbit
1999
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.
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Freaky Friday
Mark Waters
2003
An overworked mother and her daughter do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other’s life for one freaky Friday.
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The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2017
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
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The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko
2010
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
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King Richard
Reinaldo Marcus Green
2021
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
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Alcarràs
Carla Simón
2022
The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.
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Lucy
Luc Besson
2014
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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The Menu
Mark Mylod
2022
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
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Copycat
Jon Amiel
1995
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino
2003
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
Susanna Fogel
2018
Best friends Audrey and Morgan unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of them discovers that the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.
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Captain Marvel
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
2019
Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
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Black Panther
Ryan Coogler
2018
T’Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country’s past.
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Bombshell
Jay Roach
2019
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
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Liyana
Aaron Kopp and Amanda Kopp
2017
Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.
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Bantú Mama
Ivan Herrera
2021
After being arrested in the Dominican Republic, an Afropean woman escapes and is sheltered by 3 minors, in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.
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The 355
Simon Kinberg
2022
When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild-card C.I.A. agent joins forces with three international agents on a mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their every move.
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The Novice
Lauren Hadaway
2021
A college freshman joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
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Knives Out
Rian Johnson
2019
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
2011
A middle-aged husband’s life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.
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Utama
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
2022
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife (Sisa) face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
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Easy A
Will Gluck
2010
A clean-cut high school student relies on the school’s rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
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Toc Toc
Vicente Villanueva
2017
The adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD appointed at the same time.
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The Hours
Stephen Daldry
2002
The story of how the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
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Nope
Jordan Peele
2022
The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
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Fruits of Labor
Emily Cohen
2021
The day-in-a-life of a young farm and factory worker in California, who dreams of being the first in her family to graduate from high school and go to college.
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Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
Beyoncé and Ed Burke
2019
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé’s celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
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The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook
2016
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
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Moonlit Winter
Dae Hyung Lim
2019
Yoon-Hee lives with her teenage daughter Sae-Bom. On a winter day, Yoon-Hee receives a letter from Otaru, Japan. Sae-Bom accidentally reads the letter and learns about her mother’s first love, which she never spoke about before.
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The Cabin in the Woods
Drew Goddard
2011
Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
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Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki
1997
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami’s curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
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Goodbye
Vikas Bahl
2022
A heartwarming story of the Bhalla family that depicts their journey of grief and self-discovery after they suffer the loss of their loved one.
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Broadcast News
James L. Brooks
1987
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
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Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
2017
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
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A Simple Favor
Paul Feig
2018
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
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Bombay Rose
Gitanjali Rao
2019
Amidst the bustle of a magnetic and multifaceted city, the budding love between two dreamers is tested by duty and religious divides.
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Tangled
Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
2010
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
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The Mitchells vs the Machines
Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe
2021
A quirky, dysfunctional family’s road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope.
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The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg
2022
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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Period. End of Sentence.
Rayka Zehtabchi
2018
Indian women fight the stigma surrounding menstruation and begin manufacturing sanitary pads.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Destin Daniel Cretton
2021
Shang-Chi, the master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization.
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Gone Girl
David Fincher
2014
With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent.
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The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
2018
In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Niels Arden Oplev
2009
A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.
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Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki
2001
During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
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I, Tonya
Craig Gillespie
2017
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach
2019
Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
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Booksmart
Olivia Wilde
2019
On the eve of their high-school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
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Knock Down the House
Rachel Lears
2019
A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
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Private Life
Tamara Jenkins
2018
An author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge.
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Chocolat
Lasse Hallström
2000
A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2022
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, in which she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
2019
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
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Blue is the Warmest Color
Abdellatif Kechiche
2013
Adèle’s life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
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More than Family
Choi Ha-na
2020
To-il gets pregnant while dating her 19 years old tutoring student. Her mother and step-father are not pleased with the situation, so she decides to track down her biological father whom she has not seen for 15 years.
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Writing with Fire
Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas
2021
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.
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Moxie
Amy Poehler
2021
Inspired by her mom’s rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.
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Doubt
John Patrick Shanley
2008
A Catholic school principal questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
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Encanto
and Charise Castro Smith, Byron Howard, Jared Bush
2021
A Colombian teenage girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.
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Crazy Rich Asians
Jon M. Chu
2018
This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family.
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Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2018
A year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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As One
Hyeon-seong Moon
2012
“As One” is the cinematic retelling of the first ever post-war Unified Korea sports team, hastily formed to participate in the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in 1991.
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Four Samosas
Ravi Kapoor
2022
An unmotivated South Asian American rapper, along with three other first time thieves, plans a heist on a grocery store owned by his ex-girlfriend’s father, in order to steal her wedding diamonds and disrupt her pending engagement.
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I Am Greta
Nathan Grossman
2020
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world’s environmental problems.
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Hustlers
Lorene Scafaria
2019
Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
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The Florida Project
Sean Baker
2017
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
2018
A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit.
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Women is Losers
Lissette Feliciano
2021
In 1960s San Francisco, a once-promising catholic school girl, Celina Guerrera, sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future for herself that sets new precedents for the time.
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A Little Princess
Alfonso Cuarón
1995
A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.
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Molly’s Game
Aaron Sorkin
2017
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
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The Wonder
Sebastián Lelio
2022
A tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
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Love and Leashes
Hyeon-jin Park
2022
Love never hurt so good for two co-workers who enter a contractual relationship as partners in consensual play, pleasure and pain.
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Miss Congeniality
Donald Petrie
2000
An F.B.I. Agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
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Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham
2018
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
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Do Revenge
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
2022
Drea and Eleanor agree to go after one another’s bullies.
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Hairspray
John Waters
1988
A ‘pleasantly plump’ teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
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Us
Jordan Peele
2019
A family’s serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.
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Incredibles 2
Brad Bird
2018
The Incredibles family takes on a new mission which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world.
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Pacific Rim
Guillermo del Toro
2013
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
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I Am Vanessa Guillen
Christy Wegener
2022
Follow the tragic story of the young woman who dreamed of a military career, however after telling her mother that she was being harassed at the Fort Hood military base, Vanessa Guillen was killed by a partner.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Naoko Yamada
2016
A young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.
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I Feel Pretty
Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein
2018
A woman struggling with insecurity wakes from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly, but what happens when she realizes her appearance never changed?
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Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
Paul Feig
2016
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
2015
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.
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Parent Trap
Nancy Meyers
1998
Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
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Another Child
Yoon-seok Kim
2018
Two teenage girls struggle through their dysfunctional parents’ affair.
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My Cousin Vinny
Jonathan Lynn
1992
Two New Yorkers accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college call in the help of one of their cousins, a loudmouth lawyer with no trial experience.
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Charlie’s Angels
McG
2000
Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.
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Farha
Darin J. Sallam
2021
A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.
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Rough Night
Lucia Aniello
2017
Things go terribly wrong for a group of girlfriends who hire a male stripper for a bachelorette party in Miami.
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Late Night
Nisha Ganatra
2019
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
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Saint Omer
Alice Diop
2022
Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don’t go as expected.
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Wonder Woman
Patty Jenkins
2017
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
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Cruella
Craig Gillespie
2021
A live-action prequel feature film following a young Cruella de Vil.
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Prayers for the Stolen
Tatiana Huezo
2021
Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.
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Notting Hill
Roger Michell
1999
The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
1979
After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple’s young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
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Luckiest Girl Alive
Mike Barker
2022
A woman in New York, who seems to have things under control, is faced with a trauma that makes her life unravel.
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Juno
Jason Reitman
2007
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding the unborn child.
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Kim Ji-young: Born 1982
Kim Do-Young
2019
Kim Ji-yeong, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by others such as her late mother and older sister, and the stories of the people connected to her.
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Pride and Prejudice
Joe Wright
2005
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
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Slums of Beverly Hills
Tamara Jenkins
1998
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
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CODA
Sian Heder
2021
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Susan Johnson
2018
A teenage girl’s secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.
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The Arrival
David Twohy
1996
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
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Lady Vengeance
Park Chan-wook
2005
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.
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Pitch Perfect
Jason Moore
2012
Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school’s all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras
2022
Following the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic’s unfathomable death toll.
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Still Alice
Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
2014
A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Coraline
Henry Selick
2009
An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
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Ocean’s 8
Gary Ross
2018
Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City’s yearly Met Gala.
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If Anything Happens I Love You
Michael Govier and Will McCormack
2020
In the aftermath of tragedy, two grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child.
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Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen
2013
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks like a million dollars but isn’t bringing money, peace or love.
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Baby Mama
Michael McCullers
2008
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
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Wendell & Wild
Henry Selick
2022
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.
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Is That Black Enough for You?!
Elvis Mitchell
2022
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the ’70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
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Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio
2017
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
George C. Wolfe
2020
Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
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Okja
Bong Joon Ho
2017
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend – a fascinating beast named Okja.
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Mulan
Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook
1998
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China’s greatest heroines in the process.
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Kuessipan
Myriam Verreault
2019
Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community who promised each other to stick together no matter what. But their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy.
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Afternoon Delight
Joey Soloway
2013
Rachel tries to spice up her marriage with a trip to a strip club. She befriends McKenna who gave her a lapdance. She moves in with Rachel’s family and becomes a nanny for the son.
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Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
2019
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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Samjin Company English Class
Lee Jong-pil
2020
In mid ’90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ryan Coogler
2022
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.
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Return to Seoul
Davy Chou
2022
A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.
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