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Subgenre Sampler
Day I Became a Woman, The (2000)- Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Feat. Fatemeh Cherag Akhur, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh - A trio of strong metaphorical tales that outline three aspects of “a woman’s lot” in contemporary Iran, with humour and cinematic…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia - Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou - A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
Post Coitum (1997)- Dir. Brigitte Rouan
Feat. Brigitte Rouan - The director herself plays a 40–year–old wife, mother and book editor who has her respectable life devastated after a whirlwind affair…
D'Artagnan's Daughter (Revenge of the Musketeers) (1995)- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret - This gleefully French swashbuckler checks in as a loose sequel to the Three Muskeeters. The magnetic Sophie Marceau stars as the feisty titular…
Heroic Trio 2 - Executioners (1994)- Dir. Johnnie To, Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung… - Downbeat sequel returns the trio of feisty femmes to combat the evil mega–corporation that taken a stranglehold on the world's…
Silences of the Palace (1994)- Dir. Moufida Tlatli
Feat. Amel Hedhili, Hend Sabri, Najia Ouerghi… - The daughter of a palatial servant reflects on her upbringing and steady revolt of her birthright obligations. Impassioned look at the status of…
Heroic Trio (1993)- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh - An invisible criminal is stealing babies for a sewer–dwelling villain and it's up to three dazzling super–chicks. Hugely entertaining…
Saviour of the Soul (1992)- Dir. David Lai
Feat. Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok - Breathtaking camerawork and special effects combine with hallucinatory plotting as two city–dwelling mercenaries do battle with the silver fox,…
Black Cat (1991)- Dir. Dickson Poon
Feat. Jade Leung - The Hong Kong industry could not resist a crack at French action fave Nikita, the foxy misfit trained as an assassin for the secret service. A…
Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1990)- Dir. Monika Treut, Elfi Mikesch
Feat. Udo Kier - The director of VIRGIN MACHINE takes her subversive sensibilities further with this outing exploring the activities of a domanatrix. Udo Kier takes…
36 Filette (Virgin) (1988)- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parniere - The thrills and fears of a young girl's willed sexual awakening are explored when she opts to accept a ride from a mysterious stranger in order to…
A Taxing Woman (1987)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Nobuko Miyamoto - A nicely offbeat look at the potentially boring subject of tax evasion. Nobuko Miyamoto plays our star tax collector who meets her match in a hotshot…
- Ladies On the Rocks (1984)
- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen - Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
Celine & Julie Go Boating (Celine et Julie vont en bateau) (1974)- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier - Rivette assaults the narrative form for his epic–lengthed, dream–like, near indescribable tale of two girls whose lives and imaginations…
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