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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; director: Lois Weber; the first full-length feature film directed by a woman. 1915 The Hypocrites; director: Lois Weber. 1916 Miss Peasant; director: Olga Preobrazhenskaya.
Box office. $218.9 million [ 3] Little Women is a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. It chronicles the lives of the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 19th century.
Another notable modern director Greta Gerwig, has directed two films, Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), which both earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her third film, Barbie (2023), had the biggest opening weekend for a female director with $162 million at the box office.
March is Women’s History Month , which means it’s time to spice up our streaming queue with the best feminist movies. And thanks to streaming platforms like...
Lady Bird. (film) Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. Set in Sacramento, California from fall 2002 to ...
She has directed the feature films Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). For the film Monster , she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature [ 3 ] and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award of the American Film Institute (AFI). [ 4 ]
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
A woman's film is a film genre which includes women-centered narratives, female protagonists and is designed to appeal to a female audience. Woman's films usually portray "women's concerns" such as problems revolving around domestic life, the family, motherhood, self-sacrifice, and romance. [ 29]