List of films directed by women

This is a selection of feature films directed by women directors.

• 1896 La fée aux choux; director: Alice Guy-Blaché; one of the first narrative (fiction) films
• 1911 Bufera d'anime; director: Elvira Notari
• 1912 Algie the Miner; director: Alice Guy-Blaché(uncredited) first western directed by a woman.
• 1914 The Merchant of Venice (lost film as of 2025); director: Lois Weber; the first full-length feature film directed by a woman
• 1915 The Hypocrites; director: Lois Weber
• 1916 Miss Peasant (lost film as of 2025); director: Olga Preobrazhenskaya
• 1916 Shoes; director: Lois Weber
• 1921 The Blot; director: Lois Weber
• 1921 The Love Light; director: Frances Marion, starring Mary Pickford
• 1922 La souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet); director: Germaine Dulac; often cited as one of the first feminist feature films
• 1923 The Song of Love; director: Frances Marion, starring Norma Talmadge
• 1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed; director: Lotte Reiniger
• 1927 Laila ; director: Aziza Amir
• 1927 The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty; director: Esfir Shub
• 1928 The Seashell and the Clergyman; director: Germaine Dulac
• 1929 The Wild Party; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1930 Sarah and Son; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1930 Anybody's Woman; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1931 Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in uniform); director: Leontine Sagan
• 1932 Merrily We Go to Hell; director: Dorothy Arzner, a Hollywood studio feature film starring Sylvia Sidney
• 1933 Christopher Strong; director: Dorothy Arzner, a Hollywood studio feature film starring Katharine Hepburn
• 1931 Honor Among Lovers; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1931 Working Girls; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1934 Nana; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1935 Robin Hood (animated film); director: Joy Batchelor
• 1935 Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will); director: Leni Riefenstahl
• 1936 Craig's Wife; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1937 The Bride Wore Red; director: Dorothy Arzner, a Hollywood studio feature film starring Joan Crawford
• 1938 Olympia (1938 film); director: Leni Riefenstahl
• 1940 Dance, Girl, Dance; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon (experimental film); director: Maya Deren; selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry
• 1943 First Comes Courage; director: Dorothy Arzner
• 1944 At Land; director: Maya Deren
• 1946 Ritual in Transfigured Time; director: Maya Deren
• 1949 The Lost People; director: Muriel Box
• 1949 Not Wanted; director: Ida Lupino
• 1949 Never Fear; director: Ida Lupino
• 1949 Gigi; director: Jacqueline Audry.

• 1950 Outrage; director: Ida Lupino, the first Hollywood studio feature directed by a woman after Dorothy Arzner's films; the story of a rape
• 1951 Hard, Fast and Beautiful; director: Ida Lupino
• 1951 Olivia; director: Jacqueline Audry
• 1951 Streetwalker; director: Matilde Landeta
• 1952 The Happy Family; director: Muriel Box
• 1953 Street Corner; director Muriel Box
• 1953 The Hitch-Hiker; director: Ida Lupino, the first film noir directed by a woman; selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
• 1953 The Bigamist; director: Ida Lupino
• 1954 Animal Farm; co-director: Joy Batchelor
• 1955 La Pointe Courte; director: Agnès Varda
• 1955 The Eternal Breasts; director: Kinuyo Tanaka
• 1957 Life Flows Quietly By...; director: Binka Zhelyazkova
• 1959 Bridges Go-Round; director: Shirley Clarke
• 1961 The Connection; director Shirley Clarke
• 1961 Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7); director: Agnès Varda
• 1962 Les Petits Matins; director: Jacqueline Audry
• 1963 The House is Black; director: Forough Farrokhzad
• 1963 El Camino; director: Ana Mariscal
• 1964 The Cool World; director: Shirley Clarke; the cruel reality of street life in the U.S.
• 1964 Älskande par (Loving Couples); director: Mai Zetterling
• 1965 Le Bonheur; director: Agnes Varda
• 1965 The East is Red; director: Wang Ping
• 1966 Sedmikrasky (Daisies); director: Věra Chytilová – the story of two young girls who explore the world without taking it too seriously
• 1966 Blood Bath; director: Stephanie Rothman
• 1966 Wings; director: Larissa Shepitko
• 1967 Brief Encounters; director: Kira Muratova
• 1967 Portrait of Jason; director Shirley Clarke
• 1967 Separation; writer and leading actor Jane Arden
• 1968 Rat Life and Diet in North America; director: Joyce Wieland
• 1969 La fiancée du pirate (A very curious girl); director: Nelly Kaplan

• 1970 Wanda; director: Barbara Loden; an innovative, influential independent American film
• 1971 The Woman's Film; directors: Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith
• 1971 The Long Farewell; director: Kira Muratova
• 1971 L'aggettivo donna; directors: Ronny Daopolus, Annabella Miscuglio; a radical feminist documentary which analyses the double exploitation of women workers and the isolated situation of housewives and children
• 1971 Für Frauen: 1. Kapitel (For Women: Chapter 1); writer and director: Cristina Perincioli – award-winning documentary fiction on a women's strike in Berlin
• 1972 Sambizanga; director: Sarah Maldoror – feature film about the liberation movement in Angola
• 1972 The Heartbreak Kid; director: Elaine May
• 1972 The Other Side of the Underneath; director Jane Arden
• 1972/73 Es kommt darauf an, sie zu verändern; director: Claudia von Alemann – organised women workers discuss the possibilities for change
• 1974 Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter); director: Liliana Cavani
• 1974 Vibration (short) ; co-director: Jane Arden
• 1974 The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived ; director: Heiny Srour
• 1975 Kaddy Bekat – Lettre Paysanne (Letter from My Village); director: Safi Faye
• 1975 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann); directors: Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff
• 1975 Hester Street; director: Joan Micklin Silver; Academy Award nomination for Carol Kane as best actress
• 1975 The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir; directors: Shirley MacLaine, Claudia Weill; Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature
• 1975 Anna und Edith; writers: Cristina Perincioli and Cäcilia Rentmeister – first feature film in German TV ZDF on a lesbian relationship
• 1975 Seven Beauties; director: Lina Wertmüller
• 1976 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; director: Chantal Akerman – the daily life of a housewife
• 1975 Catherine & Co.; director: Catherine Breillat
• 1976 A Real Young Girl; director: Catherine Breillat
• 1976 Pasqualino settebellezze (Seven Beauties); director: Lina Wertmüller; the first time a woman was nominated for an Academy Award for directing a feature film
• 1976 Harlan County, USA; director: Barbara Kopple; Academy Award winner for best documentary feature; selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
• 1977 First Love; director: Joan Darling
• 1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn't; director: Agnes Varda
• 1977 The Ascent; director: Larissa Shepitko
• 1977 News from Home; director: Chantal Akerman
• 1977 Les Rendez-vous d'Anna; director: Chantal Akerman
• 1978 The All-Around Reduced Personality – Outtakes [de] (Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers); director: Helke Sander
• 1978 Girlfriends; director: Claudia Weill; selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
• 1978 The Mafu Cage; director: Karen Arthur
• 1978 Mais qu'est ce qu'elles veulent? (But what do they want, after all?) – director: Coline Serreau
• 1978 Rabbit Test; director: Joan Rivers
• 1978 The Power of Men is the Patience of Women [de] (Die Macht der Männer ist die Geduld der Frauen); writer, director, producer: Cristina Perincioli – (ZDF TV) feature film/documentary fiction on domestic violence
• 1978 Getting to Know the Big, Wide World; director: Kira Muratova
• 1979 Daughter Rite; director: Michelle Citron – a feminist pseudo-documentary which deconstructs the conventions of Direct Cinema
• 1979 Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin); director: Ulrike Ottinger
• 1979 Killing Us Softly; directors: Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich – the effects of advertising on women
• 1979 Deutschland bleiche Mutter (Germany Pale Mother); director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
• 1979 My Brilliant Career, starring Judy Davis; director: Gillian Armstrong
• 1979 Anti-Clock; writer and co-director Jane Arden

• 1980 Sparsh (transl. Touch) (Narrative feature) : director : Sai Paranjpye; National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
• 1980 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (documentary); director: Connie Field; selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
• 1980 It's My Turn; director: Claudia Weill
• 1981 Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott; director: Mary Benjamin; Academy Award nomination for best feature documentary
• 1981 The Decline of Western Civilization; director: Penelope Spheeris
• 1981 36 Chowringhee Lane; director: Aparna Sen
• 1981 The German Sisters; director: Margarethe von Trotta
• 1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High; starring Sean Penn; director: Amy Heckerling
• 1983 Among Grey Stones; director: Kira Muratova
• 1983 Yentl; director: Barbra Streisand; The first woman to win a Golden Globe for direction
• 1983 The Gold Diggers; director: Sally Potter
• 1983 Born in Flames; director: Lizzie Borden
• 1983 Le Grain de sable (Grain of Sand); director: Pomme Meffre – the gradual disintegration of a woman (played by Delphine Seyrig)
• 1983 Variety; director: Bette Gordon, starring Sandy McLeod
• 1985 Smooth Talk; director Joyce Chopra, starring Laura Dern
• 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Madonna; director: Susan Seidelman
• 1985 Vagabond; director: Agnes Varda
• 1985 Real Genius; director: Martha Coolidge
• 1985 Verführung: die grausame Frau (Seduction: The Cruel Woman); directors: Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut
• 1986 Children of a Lesser God; director: Randa Haines; Academy Award for Marlee Matlin as best actress
• 1987 Near Dark; director: Kathryn Bigelow
• 1986 Working Girls; director: Lizzie Borden
• 1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash (film); director: Penny Marshall, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• 1988 Big, starring Tom Hanks; director: Penny Marshall
• 1988 Salaam Bombay!; director: Mira Nair; nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film (India)
• 1988 Love, Women, and Flowers (AmorR, Mujeres, y Flores); directors: Marta Rodriguez and Jorge Silva (Colombia)
• 1988 Little Dorrit (film); director: Christine Edzard
• 1988 Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home; director: Eileen O'Meara
• 1988 Chocolat; director Claire Denis
• 1988 Die Jungfrauenmaschine (Virgin Machine); director: Monika Treut
• 1988 Kali-Filme (Kalih Films); directors: Birgit Hein and Wilhelm Hein
• 1988 36 Fillette; director: Catherine Breillat
• 1989 A Dry White Season; director: Euzhan Palcy
• 1989 Pet Sematary; director: Mary Lambert
• 1989 The Asthenic Syndrome; director: Kira Muratova
• 1989 Sweetie; director Jane Campion

• 1990 The Lemon Sisters; director: Joyce Chopra
• 1990 Europa, Europa; director: Agnieszka Holland
• 1990 An Angel at My Table; director: Jane Campion
• 1990 No Fear, No Die; director: Claire Denis
• 1990 Paris is Burning; director: Jennie Livingston
• 1991 Thousand Pieces of Gold; director: Nancy Kelly
• 1991 Point Break; director Kathryn Bigelow
• 1991 Daughters of the Dust; director: Julie Dash; selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
• 1991 A Place of Rage; director: Pratibha Parmar
• 1991 American Dream; director: Barbara Kopple; Academy Award winner for best documentary feature
• 1991 Proof; director: Jocelyn Moorhouse;
• 1991 Danzón; director: Maria Novaro
• 1991 The Prince of Tides; director: Barbra Streisand; 7 Academy Award nominations including for Barbra Streisand (producer) as Best Picture
• 1992 Little Noises; director: Jane Spencer
• 1992 Gas Food Lodging; director: Allison Anders
• 1992 Orlando; director: Sally Potter
• 1992 History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige^[1] 1992 ; director Rea Tajiri
• 1992 A League of Their Own; director: Penny Marshall
• 1992 Wayne's World; director: Penelope Spheeris
• 1993 Bhaji on the Beach; director: Gurinder Chadha
• 1993 Sleepless in Seattle; director: Nora Ephron
• 1994 The Piano; director: Jane Campion, the second time a woman was nominated for an Academy Award for directing a feature film; Academy Award for Holly Hunter as best actress and Anna Paquin as best supporting actress
• 1994 Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter; director: Deborah Hoffmann
• 1994 Mi Vida Loca; director: Allison Anders
• 1994 Black Beauty; director: Caroline Thompson
• 1994 I Can't Sleep; director: Claire Denis
• 1994 Little Women; director: Gillian Armstrong
• 1994 River of Grass; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 1995 Billy Madison; director: Tamra Davis
• 1995 Clueless, director: Amy Heckerling
• 1995 Coûte que coûte (At all costs); director: Claire Simon – documentary
• 1995 Antonia's Line; director: Marleen Gorris; Academy Award for best foreign film, the first time awarded to a female film director.
• 1995 Strange Days; director: Kathryn Bigelow
• 1996 Fire; director: Deepa Mehta
• 1996 Unstrung Heroes; director: Diane Keaton
• 1996 White Men Are Cracking Up; director: Ngozi Onwurah
• 1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces; director: Barbra Streisand; Academy Award nomination for Lauren Bacall as best supporting actress
• 1996 The Portrait of a Lady; director Jane Campion
• 1996 I Shot Andy Warhol; director: Mary Harron
• 1996 Nénette and Boni; director: Claire Denis
• 1997 Strawberry Fields; director: Rea Tajiri^[2]
• 1997 The Peacemaker; director: Mimi Leder
• 1997 The Tango Lesson; director: Sally Potter
• 1998 That Strange Person, director: Eileen O'Meara
• 1998 Free Tibet, director: Sarah Pirozek
• 1998 Deep Impact, director: Mimi Leder
• 1998 Half Baked; director: Tamra Davis
• 1998 High Art; director: Lisa Cholodenko
• 1999 Beau Travail; director: Claire Denis
• 1999 Holy Smoke!; director: Jane Campion
• 1999 The Green Elephant; director: Svetlana Baskova
• 1999 Boys Don't Cry; director: Kimberly Peirce; Academy Award for Hilary Swank as best actress; nomination for Chloë Sevigny as best supporting actress
• 1999 Romance; director: Catherine Breillat
• 1999 Titus; director: Julie Taymor
• 1999 The Virgin Suicides; director: Sophia Coppola
• 1999 But I'm a Cheerleader; director: Jamie Babbit

• 2000 American Psycho; director: Mary Harron
• 2000 Girlfight; director: Karyn Kusama
• 2000 The Gleaners and I; director: Agnes Varda
• 2000 Loser; director: Amy Heckerling
• 2000 Love & Basketball; director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
• 2000 The Man Who Cried; director: Sally Potter
• 2000 Suspicious River; director: Lynne Stopkewich
• 2000 The Weight of Water; director: Kathryn Bigelow
• 2000 What Women Want; director: Nancy Meyers
• 2001 Brief Crossing; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2001 Charlotte Gray; director: Gillian Armstrong
• 2001 Fat Girl; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2001 La Ciénaga; director: Lucrecia Martel
• 2001 Lovely & Amazing; director: Nicole Holofcener
• 2001 Lovely Rita; director: Jessica Hausner
• 2001 Monsoon Wedding; director: Mira Nair
• 2001 Nowhere in Africa; director: Caroline Link
• 2001 Rain; director: Christine Jeffs
• 2001 Shrek; co-director: Vicky Jenson; Academy Award for best animated feature.
• 2001 Trouble Every Day; director: Claire Denis
• 2002 Blue Car; director: Karen Moncrieff
• 2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; director: Callie Khouri
• 2002 Five Bottles of Vodka; director: Svetlana Baskova
• 2002 Frida; director: Julie Taymor
• 2002 Laurel Canyon; director: Lisa Cholodenko
• 2002 Sex Is Comedy; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2002 Bend It Like Beckham; director: Gurinder Chadha
• 2002 Vendredi soir; director: Claire Denis
• 2002 Whale Rider; director: Niki Caro
• 2003 At Five in the Afternoon; director: Samira Makhmalbaf
• 2003 The Forest for the Trees; director: Maren Ade
• 2003 The Head; director: Svetlana Baskova
• 2003 In the Cut; director: Jane Campion
• 2003 Lost in Translation; director: Sofia Coppola, the third time a woman was nominated for an Academy Award for directing.
• 2003 Monster; director: Patty Jenkins
• 2003 Nur Anfänger heiraten; director: Franziska Meyer Price^[3]
• 2003 Something's Gotta Give; director: Nancy Meyers
• 2003 Sylvia; director: Christine Jeffs
• 2003 Take My Eyes; director: Icíar Bollaín
• 2003 Thirteen; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2003 Virgin; director: Deborah Kampmeier
• 2004 Anatomy of Hell; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2004 Cavedweller; director: Lisa Cholodenko
• 2004 Dear Frankie; director: Shona Auerbach
• 2004 Bride and Prejudice; director: Gurinder Chadha
• 2004 D.E.B.S.; director: Angela Robinson
• 2004 Down to the Bone; director: Debra Granik
• 2004 Goddess: How I fell in Love; director: Renata Litvinova
• 2004 The Holy Girl; director: Lucrecia Martel
• 2004 Hotel; director: Jessica Hausner
• 2004 The Intruder; director: Claire Denis
• 2004 Mars; director: Anna Melikyan
• 2004 The Prince & Me; director: Martha Coolidge
• 2004 Somersault; director: Cate Shortland
• 2004 Speak; director: Jessica Sharzer
• 2004 Vanity Fair; director: Mira Nair
• 2004 The Woodsman; director: Nicole Kassell
• 2004 Yes; director: Sally Potter
• 2005 Æon Flux; director: Karyn Kusama
• 2005 The Ballad of Jack and Rose; director: Rebecca Miller
• 2005 Born into Brothels; director: Zana Briski co-directed with Ross Kauffman
• 2005 Close to Home, directors: Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu
• 2005 Herbie: Fully Loaded; director: Angela Robinson
• 2005 Look Both Ways; director: Sarah Watt
• 2005 Lords of Dogtown; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2005 North Country; director: Niki Caro
• 2005 The Notorious Bettie Page; director: Mary Harron
• 2005 Princess Undercover; director: Franziska Meyer Price^[4]
• 2005 Sisters of '77; director: Cynthia Salzman Mondell co-directed with Allen Mondell
• 2006 Away from Her; director: Sarah Polley
• 2006 Blood Tea and Red String; director: Christiane Cegavske
• 2006 Day Night Day Night; director: Julia Loktev
• 2006 The Dead Girl; director: Karen Moncrieff
• 2006 Diggers; director: Katherine Dieckmann
• 2006 Friends with Money; director: Nicole Holofcener
• 2006 The Holiday; director: Nancy Meyers
• 2006 Marie Antoinette; director: Sofia Coppola
• 2006 Material Girls; director: Martha Coolidge
• 2006 Old Joy; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 2006 Piter FM; director: Oksana Bychkova
• 2006 Red Road; director: Andrea Arnold
• 2006 Sherrybaby; director: Laurie Collyer
• 2006 Stick It; director: Jessica Bendinger
• 2007 Across the Universe; director: Julie Taymor
• 2007 All Is Forgiven; director: Mia Hansen-Løve
• 2007 Death Defying Acts; director: Gillian Armstrong
• 2007 Hounddog; director: Deborah Kampmeier
• 2007 I Could Never Be Your Woman; director: Amy Heckerling
• 2007 The Last Mistress; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2007 Mermaid; director: Anna Melikyan
• 2007 Never Forever; director: Gina Kim
• 2007 The Savages; director: Tamara Jenkins
• 2007 Things We Lost in the Fire; director: Susanne Bier
• 2007 Waitress; director: Adrienne Shelly
• 2007 Water Lilies; director: Céline Sciamma
• 2008 35 Shots of Rum; director: Claire Denis
• 2008 The Beaches of Agnes; director: Agnes Varda
• 2008 Everybody Dies but Me; director: Valeriya Gai Germanika
• 2008 Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging; director: Gurinder Chadha
• 2008 Frozen River; director: Courtney Hunt
• 2008 Mamma Mia! (film); director: Phyllida Lloyd
• 2008 The Headless Woman; director: Lucrecia Martel
• 2008 The Hurt Locker; director: Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win an Academy Award for directing.
• 2008 Stop-Loss; director: Kimberly Peirce
• 2008 Sunshine Cleaning; director: Christine Jeffs
• 2008 Surveillance; director: Jennifer Lynch
• 2008 Twilight; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2008 Wendy and Lucy; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 2009 Amelia; director: Mira Nair
• 2009 An Education; director: Lone Scherfig
• 2009 Bluebeard; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2009 Bright Star; director: Jane Campion
• 2009 Cold Souls; director: Sophie Barthes
• 2009 Everyone Else; director: Maren Ade
• 2009 Father of My Children; director: Mia Hansen-Løve
• 2009 Fish Tank; director: Andrea Arnold
• 2009 It's Complicated; director: Nancy Meyers
• 2009 Jennifer's Body; director: Karyn Kusama
• 2009 Julie & Julia; director Nora Ephron
• 2009 Lourdes; director: Jessica Hausner
• 2009 Motherhood; director: Katherine Dieckmann
• 2009 My Year Without Sex; director: Sarah Watt
• 2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee; director: Rebecca Miller
• 2009 Rage; director: Sally Potter
• 2009 White Material; director: Claire Denis

• 2010 Denizen; director: J.A. Steel^[5]
• 2010 The Freebie; director: Katie Aselton
• 2010 The High Cost of Living; director: Deborah Chow
• 2010 I Will Follow; director: Ava DuVernay
• 2010 The Kids Are All Right; director: Lisa Cholodenko
• 2010 Meek's Cutoff; director; Kelly Reichardt
• 2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang; director: Susanna White
• 2010 Night Catches Us; director: Tanya Hamilton
• 2010 Please Give; director: Nicole Holofcener
• 2010 The Runaways; director: Floria Sigismondi
• 2010 Somewhere; director: Sofia Coppola
• 2010 The Tempest; director: Julie Taymor
• 2010 The Whistleblower; director: Larysa Kondracki
• 2010 Winter's Bone; director: Debra Granik
• 2011 A Little Bit of Heaven; director: Nicole Kassell
• 2011 The Fatherless; director: Marie Kreutzer
• 2011 Goodbye First Love; director Mia Hansen-Løve
• 2011 Higher Ground; director: Vera Farmiga
• 2011 Hysteria; director: Tanya Wexler
• 2011 In the Land of Blood and Honey; director: Angelina Jolie
• 2011 The Loneliest Planet; director: Julia Loktev
• 2011 The Moth Diaries; director: Mary Harron
• 2011 The Off Hours; director: Megan Griffiths
• 2011 One Day; director: Lone Scherfig
• 2011 Pariah; director: Dee Rees
• 2011 Red Riding Hood; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2011 Return; director: Liza Johnson
• 2011 Sengadal; director: Leena Manimekalai
• 2011 Take This Waltz; director: Sarah Polley
• 2011 Tomboy; director: Céline Sciamma
• 2011 Two Days; director: Avdotya Smirnova
• 2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin; director: Lynne Ramsay
• 2011 Wuthering Heights; director: Andrea Arnold
• 2011 Yelling to the Sky; director: Victoria Mahoney
• 2011 Your Sister's Sister; director: Lynn Shelton
• 2012 Black Rock; director: Katie Aselton
• 2012 Breaking the Girls; director: Jamie Babbit
• 2012 Chained; director: Jennifer Lynch
• 2012 Eden; director: Megan Griffiths
• 2012 Ginger & Rosa; director: Sally Potter
• 2012 Kiss of the Damned; director: Alexandra Cassavetes
• 2012 Middle of Nowhere; director: Ava DuVernay
• 2012 The Reluctant Fundamentalist; director: Mira Nair
• 2012 Saving Face; director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• 2012 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; director: Lorene Scafaria
• 2012 Stories We Tell; director: Sarah Polley
• 2012 Vamps; director: Amy Heckerling
• 2012 Wadjda; director: Haifaa al-Mansour first film to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia
• 2012 Zero Dark Thirty; director: Kathryn Bigelow
• 2013 A Teacher; director: Hannah Fidell
• 2013 Abuse of Weakness; director: Catherine Breillat
• 2013 Bastards; director: Claire Denis
• 2013 Best Friends Forever; director: Brea Grant
• 2013 The Bling Ring; director: Sofia Coppola
• 2013 Butter on the Latch; director: Josephine Decker
• 2013 Carrie; director Kimberly Peirce
• 2013 Concussion; director: Stacie Passon
• 2013 Desert Runners; director: Jennifer Steinman
• 2013 Elektro Moskva; director: Elena Tikhonova
• 2013 Enough Said; director: Nicole Holofcener
• 2013 Final Recipe; director: Gina Kim
• 2013 Frozen; director: Jennifer Lee co-directed with Chris Buck
• 2013 Hateship, Loveship; director: Liza Johnson
• 2013 It Felt Like Love; director: Eliza Hittman
• 2013 Lucky Them; director: Megan Griffiths
• 2013 Night Moves; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 2013 Palo Alto; director: Gia Coppola
• 2013 Plush; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2013 The Pretty One; director: Jenée LaMarque
• 2013 Soulmate; director: Axelle Carolyn
• 2013 Sunlight Jr.; director: Laurie Collyer
• 2013 The To Do List; director: Maggie Carey
• 2013 Touchy Feely; director: Lynn Shelton
• 2014 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: director: Ana Lily Amirpour
• 2014 Amour Fou: director: Jessica Hausner
• 2014 Appropriate Behavior; director: Desiree Akhavan
• 2014 The Babadook; director: Jennifer Kent
• 2014 Dukhtar; director: Afia Nathaniel
• 2014 Eden; director; Mia Hansen-Løve
• 2014 Girlhood; director: Celine Sciamma
• 2014 Honeymoon; director: Leigh Janiak
• 2014 I Believe in Unicorns; director: Leah Meyerhoff
• 2014 Kelly & Cal; director: Jen McGowan
• 2014 Laggies; director: Lynn Shelton
• 2014 Madame Bovary; director: Sophie Barthes
• 2014 Männerhort; director: Franziska Meyer Price^[6]
• 2014 Miss Meadows; director: Karen Leigh Hopkins
• 2014 Obvious Child; director: Gillian Robespierre
• 2014 The Riot Club; director: Lone Scherfig
• 2014 Selma; director: Ava DuVernay
• 2014 The Sleepwalker; director: Mona Fastvold
• 2014 Thou Wast Mild and Lovely director: Josephine Decker
• 2014 Unbroken; director: Angelina Jolie
• 2014 The Voices; director: Marjane Satrapi
• 2014 Welcome to Me; director: Shira Piven
• 2014 The Wonders: director: Alice Rohrwacher
• 2015 3 Bahadur; director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
• 2015 6 Years; director: Hannah Fidell
• 2015 The Adderall Diaries; director: Pamela Romanowsky
• 2015 Addicted to Fresno; director: Jamie Babbit
• 2015 Advantageous; director: Jennifer Phang
• 2015 Bare; director: Natalia Leite
• 2015 By the Sea; director: Angelina Jolie
• 2015 The Diary of a Teenage Girl; director: Marielle Heller
• 2015 The Dressmaker; director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
• 2015 Good Morning Karachi; director: Sabiha Sumar
• 2015 Gruber Is Leaving; director: Marie Kreutzer^[7]
• 2015 The Intern; director: Nancy Meyers
• 2015 Into the Forest; director: Patricia Rozema
• 2015 The Invitation; director: Karyn Kusama
• 2015 Maggie's Plan; director: Rebecca Miller
• 2015 The Meddler; director: Lorene Scafaria
• 2015 Miss You Already; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2015 Mustang; director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• 2015 Sleeping With Other People; director: Leslye Headland
• 2015 Songs My Brothers Taught Me; director: Chloé Zhao
• 2015 Suffragette; director: Sarah Gavron
• 2015 Traumfrauen; director: Anika Decker
• 2016 American Honey, director: Andrea Arnold
• 2016 Always Shine; director: Sophia Takal
• 2016 The Bad Batch; director: Ana Lily Amirpour
• 2016 Carrie Pilby; director: Susan Johnson
• 2016 Certain Women; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 2016 The Edge of Seventeen; director: Kelly Fremon Craig
• 2016 Elvis & Nixon; director: Liza Johnson
• 2016 In the Radiant City; director: Rachel Lambert
• 2016 The Love Witch; director: Anna Biller
• 2016 The Night Stalker; director: Megan Griffiths
• 2016 Our Kind of Traitor; director: Susanna White
• 2016 Prevenge; director: Alice Lowe
• 2016 Queen of Katwe; director: Mira Nair
• 2016 Raw; director: Julia Ducournau
• 2016 Sami Blood; director: Amanda Kernell
• 2016 SMS für Dich; director: Karoline Herfurth
• 2016 Strange Weather; director: Katherine Dieckmann
• 2016 Their Finest; director: Lone Scherfig
• 2016 Things to Come; director: Mia Hansen-Love
• 2016 Toni Erdmann; director: Maren Ade
• 2016 We Used to Be Cool; director: Marie Kreutzer^[8]
• 2016 White Girl; director: Elizabeth Wood
• 2016 The Whole Truth; director: Courtney Hunt
• 2016 Women Who Kill; director: Ingrid Jungermann
• 2017 Band Aid; director: Zoe Lister-Jones
• 2017 Beach Rats; director: Eliza Hittman
• 2017 The Beguiled; director: Sofia Coppola
• 2017 Berlin Syndrome; director: Cate Shortland
• 2017 The Boy Downstairs; director: Sophie Brooks
• 2017 Detroit; director: Kathryn Bigelow
• 2017 The Feels; director Jenée LaMarque
• 2017 First they Killed My Father; director: Angelina Jolie
• 2017 High Society; director: Anika Decker^[9]
• 2017 The Institute; director: Pamela Romanowsky co-directed with James Franco
• 2017 The Keeping Hours; director: Karen Moncrieff
• 2017 Lady Bird; director: Greta Gerwig
• 2017 Landline; director: Gillian Robespierre
• 2017 Lemon; director: Janicza Bravo
• 2017 Let the Sunshine In; director: Claire Denis
• 2017 M.F.A.; director: Natalia Leite
• 2017 Maya Dardel; director: Magdalena Zyzak
• 2017 Novitiate; director: Maggie Betts
• 2017 Outside In; director: Lynn Shelton
• 2017 The Party; director: Sally Potter
• 2017 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women; director: Angela Robinson
• 2017 Revenge; director: Coralie Fargeat
• 2017 The Rider; director: Chloé Zhao
• 2017 Rough Night; director: Lucia Aniello
• 2017 The Wasting; director: Carolyn Saunders
• 2017 Woman Walks Ahead; director: Susanna White
• 2017 Wonder Woman; director: Patty Jenkins
• 2017 You Were Never Really Here; director: Lynne Ramsay
• 2017 The Zookeeper's Wife; director: Niki Caro
• 2018 A Wrinkle in Time; director: Ava DuVernay
• 2018 All About Nina; director: Eva Vives
• 2018 Blockers; director: Kay Cannon
• 2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me?; director: Marielle Heller
• 2018 Charlie Says; director: Mary Harron
• 2018 Dead Pigs; director: Cathy Yan
• 2018 Destroyer; director: Karyn Kusama
• 2018 Family; director: Laura Steinel
• 2018 First Match; director: Olivia Newman
• 2018 Furlough; director: Laurie Collyer
• 2018 Happy as Lazzaro; director: Alice Rohrwacher
• 2018 High Life; director: Claire Denis
• 2018 The Land of Steady Habits; director: Nicole Holofcener
• 2018 Leave No Trace; director: Debra Granik
• 2018 Little Woods; director: Nia DaCosta
• 2018 The Long Dumb Road; director: Hannah Fidell
• 2018 M; director: Anna Eriksson
• 2018 Madeline's Madeline; director: Josephine Decker
• 2018 The Man Who Surprised Everyone; director Natasha Merkulova
• 2018 Mary Queen of Scots; director: Josie Rourke
• 2018 Maya; director: Mia Hansen-Løve
• 2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post; director: Desiree Akhavan
• 2018 Mouthpiece; director: Patricia Rozema
• 2018 Nancy; director: Christina Choe
• 2018 Never Goin' Back; director: Augustine Frizzell
• 2018 The New Romantic; director: Carly Stone
• 2018 Night Comes On; director: Jordana Spiro
• 2018 The Nightingale; director: Jennifer Kent
• 2018 Ophelia; director: Claire McCarthy
• 2018 Private Life; director: Tamara Jenkins
• 2018 Rust Creek; director: Jen McGowan
• 2018 Sadie; director: Megan Griffiths
• 2018 The Spy Who Dumped Me; director: Susanna Fogel
• 2018 State Like Sleep; director: Meredith Danluck
• 2018 Story of One Appointment; director: Avdotya Smirnova
• 2018 We Have Always Lived in the Castle; director: Stacie Passon
• 2018 What They Had; director: Elizabeth Chomko
• 2018 The Wind; director: Emma Tammi
• 2019 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood; director: Marielle Heller
• 2019 Always Be My Maybe; director: Nahnatchka Khan
• 2019 Atlantics; director: Mati Diop
• 2019 Babyteeth; director: Shannon Murphy
• 2019 Black Christmas; director: Sophia Takal
• 2019 Black Conflux; director: Nicole Dorsey
• 2019 Body at Brighton Rock; director: Roxanne Benjamin
• 2019 Booksmart; director: Olivia Wilde
• 2019 Buffaloed; director: Tanya Wexler
• 2019 Captain Marvel; director: Anna Boden co-directed with Ryan Fleck
• 2019 Caviar; director: Elena Tikhonova
• 2019 Carmilla; director: Emily Harris
• 2019 Clemency; director: Chinonye Chukwu
• 2019 The Farewell; director: Lulu Wang
• 2019 First Cow; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 2019 Frozen II; director: Jennifer Lee co-directed with Chris Buck
• 2019 The Ground Beneath My Feet; director: Marie Kreutzer
• 2019 Harriet; director: Kasi Lemmons
• 2019 Hustlers; director: Lorene Scafaria
• 2019 Instinct; director: Halina Reijn
• 2019 Judy and Punch; director: Mirrah Foulkes
• 2019 Blinded by the Light (2019 film); director: Gurinder Chadha
• 2019 The Kindness of Strangers; director: Lone Scherfig
• 2019 Knives and Skin; director: Jennifer Reeder
• 2019 Little Joe; director: Jessica Hausner
• 2019 Little Women; director: Greta Gerwig
• 2019 Miss Bala; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2019 The Other Lamb; director: Małgorzata Szumowska
• 2019 Paradise Hills; director: Alice Waddington
• 2019 Portrait of a Lady on Fire; director: Celine Sciamma
• 2019 Queen & Slim; director: Melina Matsoukas
• 2019 Queen of the Morning Calm; director: Gloria Ui Young Kim
• 2019 Radioactive; director: Marjane Satrapi
• 2019 Rocks; director: Sarah Gavron
• 2019 Saint Maud; director: Rose Glass
• 2019 Satanic Panic; director: Chelsea Stardust
• 2019 The Souvenir; director: Joanna Hogg
• 2019 Sweethearts; director: Karoline Herfurth
• 2019 Sword of Trust; director: Lynn Shelton
• 2019 System Crasher; director: Nora Fingscheidt
• 2019 To the Stars; director: Martha Stephens
• 2019 The Wall of Mexico; director: Magdalena Zyzak
• 2019 When I'm a Moth; director: Magdalena Zyzak

• 2020 12 Hour Shift; director: Brea Grant
• 2020 Amulet; director: Romola Garai
• 2020 Berlin, Berlin – Der Film; director: Franziska Meyer Price
• 2020 Between Waves; director: Virginia Abramovich
• 2020 Birds of Prey; director: Cathy Yan
• 2020 The Broken Hearts Gallery; director: Natalie Krinsky
• 2020 Charter; director: Amanda Kernell
• 2020 The Craft: Legacy; director: Zoe Lister-Jones
• 2020 The Curse of Willow Song; director: Karen Lam
• 2020 Emma; director: Autumn de Wilde
• 2020 The Forty-Year-Old Version; director: Rahda Blank
• 2020 The Glorias; director: Julie Taymor
• 2020 The High Note; director: Nisha Ganatra
• 2020 Holler; director: Nicole Riegel
• 2020 I'm Your Woman; director: Julia Hart
• 2020 Kajillionaire; director: Miranda July
• 2020 Lucky; director: Natasha Kermani
• 2020 Lorelei; director: Sabrina Doyle
• 2020 Mainstream; director: Gia Coppola
• 2020 Misbehaviour; director: Philippa Lowthorpe
• 2020 Never Rarely Sometimes Always; director: Eliza Hittman
• 2020 Nomadland; director: Chloé Zhao
• 2020 The Old Guard; director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
• 2020 Promising Young Woman; director: Emerald Fennell
• 2020 Quo Vadis, Aida?; director: Jasmila Žbanić
• 2020 Relic; director: Natalie Erika James
• 2020 The Roads Not Taken; director: Sally Potter
• 2020 She Dies Tomorrow; director: Amy Seimetz
• 2020 Shirley; director: Josephine Decker
• 2020 Shiva Baby; director: Emma Seligman
• 2020 The Three; director: Anna Melikian
• 2020 What We Wanted; director: Ulrike Kofler
• 2020 Wonder Woman 1984; director: Patty Jenkins
• 2020 The World to Come; director: Mona Fastvold
• 2021 A Mouthful of Air; director: Amy Koppelman
• 2021 Bergman Island; director: Mia Hansen-Løve
• 2021 Black Widow; director: Cate Shortland
• 2021 Candyman; director: Nia DaCosta
• 2021 Captain Volkonogov Escaped; director: Natasha Merkulova
• 2021 Censor; director: Prano Bailey-Bond
• 2021 CODA; director: Siân Heder
• 2021 Eternals; director: Chloé Zhao
• 2021 Eva & Adam; director: Caroline Cowan
• 2021 The Fallout; director: Megan Park
• 2021 Gerda; director: Natalya Kudryashova
• 2021 Happening; director: Audrey Diwan
• 2021 I'm Your Man; director: Maria Schrader
• 2021 The Manor; director: Axelle Carolyn
• 2021 Mark, Mary & Some Other People; director: Hannah Marks
• 2021 The Matrix Resurrections; director: Lana Wachowski
• 2021 Mayday; director: Karen Cinorre
• 2021 Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon; director: Ana Lily Amirpour
• 2021 Mothering Sunday; director: Eva Husson
• 2021 The North Wind; director: Renata Litvinova
• 2021 The Novice; director: Lauren Hadaway
• 2021 Petite Maman; director: Celine Sciamma
• 2021 Pleasure; director: Ninja Thyberg
• 2021 The Power of the Dog; director: Jane Campion
• 2021 Quarantine; director: Diana Ringo
• 2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Part 1; director: Chiaki Kon
• 2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Part 2; director: Chiaki Kon
• 2021 She Will; director: Charlotte Colbert
• 2021 Stellar; director: Darlene Naponse
• 2021 Sweetheart; director: Marley Morrison
• 2021 Titane; director: Julia Ducournau
• 2021 Together Together; director: Nikole Beckwith
• 2021 Violet; director: Justine Bateman
• 2021 Wolf; director: Nathalie Biancheri
• 2021 The Lost Daughter (film) ; director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
• 2021 Yuni; director: Kamila Andini
• 2021 Zola; director: Janicza Bravo
• 2022 Aftersun; director: Charlotte Wells
• 2022 Alice, Darling; director: Mary Nighy
• 2022 Amanda; director: Carolina Cavalli
• 2022 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe; director: Aitch Alberto
• 2022 Batata; director: Noura Kevorkian
• 2022 Bodies Bodies Bodies; director: Halina Reijn
• 2022 Both Sides of the Blade; director: Claire Denis
• 2022 Corsage; director: Marie Kreutzer
• 2022 Dalíland; director: Mary Harron
• 2022 Deadstream; director: Vanessa Winters co-directed with Joseph Winters
• 2022 Don't Make Me Go; director: Hannah Marks
• 2022 Emily; director: Frances O'Connor
• 2022 Fresh; director: Mimi Cave
• 2022 Girl Picture; director: Alli Haapasalo
• 2022 Glorious; director: Rebekah McKendry
• 2022 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; director: Sophie Hyde
• 2022 Hatching; director: Hanna Bergholm
• 2022 Just Something Nice; director: Karoline Herfurth^[10]
• 2022 Liebesdings; director: Anika Decker^[11]
• 2022 Mack & Rita; director: Katie Aselton
• 2022 Montreal Girls; director: Patricia Chica
• 2022 Next Exit; director: Mali Elfman
• 2022 North of Normal; director: Carly Stone
• 2022 Piggy; director: Carlota Pereda
• 2022 She Said; director: Maria Schrader
• 2022 Showing Up; director: Kelly Reichardt
• 2022 Sissy; director: Hannah Barlow co-directed with Kane Senes
• 2022 The Sky Is Everywhere; director: Josephine Decker
• 2022 Stars at Noon; director: Claire Denis
• 2022 The Swearing Jar; director: Lindsay MacKay
• 2022 Torn Hearts; director: Brea Grant
• 2022 Till; director: Chinonye Chukwu
• 2022 Umma; director: Iris K. Shim
• 2022 Watcher; director: Chloe Okuno
• 2022 When Time Got Louder; director: Connie Cocchia
• 2022 Where the Crawdads Sing; director: Olivia Newman
• 2022 Women Talking; director: Sarah Polley
• 2022 Wunderschön; director: Karoline Herfurth^[12]
• 2023 1984; director: Diana Ringo^[13][14][15]
• 2023 A Thousand and One; director: A.V. Rockwell
• 2023 About My Father; director: Laura Terruso
• 2023 All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt; director: Raven Jackson
• 2023 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.; director: Kelly Fremon Craig
• 2023 Barbie; director: Greta Gerwig
• 2023 Birth/Rebirth; director: Laura Moss
• 2023 Bottoms; director: Emma Seligman
• 2023 Cocaine Bear; director: Elizabeth Banks
• 2023 The End We Start From; director: Mahalia Belo
• 2023 Fair Play; director: Chloe Domont
• 2023 Finality of Dusk; director: Madison Thomas
• 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's; director: Emma Tammi
• 2023 How to Have Sex; director: Molly Manning Walker
• 2023 Jeanne du Barry; director: Maïwenn
• 2023 Joy Ride; director: Adele Lim
• 2023 La chimera; director: Alice Rohrwacher
• 2023 Lee; director: Ellen Kuras
• 2023 Lovely, Dark, and Deep; director: Teresa Sutherland
• 2023 Mafia Mamma; director: Catherine Hardwicke
• 2023 The Marvels; director: Nia DaCosta
• 2023 Past Lives; director: Celine Song
• 2023 Perpetrator; director: Jennifer Reeder
• 2023 The Pod Generation; director: Sophie Barthes
• 2023 Polarized; director: Shamim Sarif^[16]
• 2023 Polite Society; director: Nida Manzoor
• 2023 Priscilla; director: Sofia Coppola
• 2023 Rye Lane; director: Raine Allen-Miller
• 2023 Saltburn; director: Emerald Fennell
• 2023 Scrambled; director: Leah McKendrick
• 2023 Scrapper; director: Charlotte Regan
• 2023 Sometimes I Think About Dying; director: Rachel Lambert
• 2023 The Starling Girl; director: Laurel Parmet
• 2023 There's Something Wrong with the Children; director: Roxanne Benjamin
• 2023 Totally Killer; director: Nahnatchka Khan
• 2023 Unseen; director: Yoko Okumura
• 2023 Woman of the Hour; director: Anna Kendrick
• 2023 You Hurt My Feelings; director: Nicole Holofcener
• 2024 All We Imagine as Light; director: Payal Kapadia
• 2024 Apartment 7A; director: Natalie Erika James
• 2024 Babygirl; director: Halina Reijn
• 2024 Beautiful Rebel; director: Cinzia Torrini
• 2024 Bird; director: Andrea Arnold
• 2024 The Fire Inside; director: Rachel Morrison
• 2024 The Last Showgirl; director: Gia Coppola
• 2024 Love in the Big City; director: E.oni
• 2024 Love Lies Bleeding; director: Rose Glass
• 2024 Madame Web; director: S. J. Clarkson
• 2024 Moana 2; director: Dana Ledoux Miller co-directed with David Derrick Jr. & Jason Hand
• 2024 My Old Ass; director: Megan Park
• 2024 My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow; director: Julia Loktev
• 2024 Nightbitch; director: Marielle Heller
• 2024 Stolen; director: Elle Márjá Eira [no]
• 2024 The Substance; director: Coralie Fargeat
• 2024 Toxic; director: Saulė Bliuvaitė
• 2024 Venom: The Last Dance; director: Kelly Marcel
• 2025 Alpha; director: Julia Ducournau
• 2025 The Old Guard 2; director: Victoria Mahoney
• 2025 Red Sonja; director: M. J. Bassett