Release Date: 1944-01-01

Overview: A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

Rating: 7.238 (101 votes)

Release Date: 2000-09-07

Overview: Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the earth's core.

Rating: 7.086 (93 votes)

Release Date: 1894-03-14

Overview: The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

Rating: 5.193 (75 votes)

Release Date: 1894-01-01

Overview: Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing skirts to create visual patterns.

Rating: 5.441 (51 votes)

Release Date: 1966-04-23

Overview: Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.

Rating: 4.75 (56 votes)

Release Date: 1905-07-31

Overview: A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

Rating: 6.111 (45 votes)

Release Date: 1945-10-17

Overview: Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.

Rating: 5.92 (69 votes)

Release Date: 1980-10-01

Overview: Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.

Rating: 5.932 (22 votes)

Release Date: 2010-11-20

Overview: The story of a tiny Egg-girl who is forced to serve the evil Boar-like witch Baba Yaga. But after a blob of Dough comes to life, she befriends him and both escape from the witch's home at a Water mill on a cliff and set off to see the world. The soundtrack is Joe Hisaishi's arrangement of Vivaldi's La Folia

Rating: 6.823 (31 votes)

Release Date: 2012-11-01

Overview: Parvaneh is a young Afghan immigrant who recently arrived at a transit centre for asylum seekers in the Swiss Alps. The only things she has got to know yet are the rural area surrounding the centre and the centre itself.

Rating: 6.6 (18 votes)

Release Date: 1930-12-31

Overview: A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.

Rating: 5.143 (14 votes)

Release Date: 2000-11-11

Overview: Belmonde lives in 1990s London as an iconic , cool Frenchman modelled on the new wave cinema of the 1960s. Really he is English and middle class – a fact that his family won't let him forget!

Rating: 5.9 (19 votes)

Release Date: 1982-02-18

Overview: When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.

Rating: 6.1 (32 votes)

Release Date: 1992-04-15

Overview: Set to music by Bikini Kill (an all-girl band from Washington), Girl Power is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 90s. Benning relates her personal rebellion against school, family, and female stereotypes as a story of personal freedom, telling how she used to model like Matt Dillon and skip school to have adventures alone. Informed by the underground “riot grrrl” movement, this tape transforms the image politics of female youth, rejecting traditional passivity and polite compliance in favor of radical independence and a self-determined sexual identity.

Rating: 5.5 (5 votes)

Release Date: 2002-03-15

Overview: Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Rating: 7.4 (17 votes)

Release Date: 2017-11-04

Overview: This documentary follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are members of the traditional community of Akwesasne on the U.S./Canada border. Together, they undertake a four-year rite of passage for adolescents, called Oheró:kon, or "under the husk." The ceremony had been nearly extinct, a casualty of colonialism and intergenerational trauma; revived in the past decade by two traditional leaders, it has since flourished. Filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox has served as a mentor, or "auntie," to many youth going through the passage rites.

Rating: 6 (1 votes)

Release Date: 1939-12-24

Overview: An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Rating: 7.3 (92 votes)

Release Date: 1983-04-01

Overview: In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

Rating: 6.101 (69 votes)

Release Date: 2003-12-09

Overview: Everyone's favorite fourth graders have graduated! It's an all-new school year for the kids — and the gang hits the fifth grade running! But they're stopped in their tracks when they discover some unwelcome changes — no pizza, no playground... no lockers! And to make things worse, their teacher turns out to be the cantankerous Miss Finster! It's all too much for T.J., who is determined to find a way to stand up for what the gang believes in and improve the school they love! The fifth grade brings out the best in everyone... even Miss Finster and Principal Prickly!

Rating: 6.5 (85 votes)