In honor of Women's History Month I have chosen five films with a female lead or subject. I tried to find films that are all available on Netflix but two of them aren't. If anyone needs help finding a place to watch, lmk.
Raw
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In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
Director: Julia Ducournau
Writer: Julia Ducournao
Release Year: 2017
Language: French
Available on Netflix
Sunset Boulevard
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An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Release Year: 1950
Language: English
Available on Netflix
Martha Marcy May Marlene
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After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
Director: Sean Durkin
Writer: Sean Durkin
Release Year: 2011
Language: English
Tangerine
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It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their oamwn repercussions of infidelity.
Director: Sean Baker
Writer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Release Year: 2015
Language: English
Available on Netflix
Amy
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A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
Filmmaker: Asif Kapadia
Release Year: 2015
Language: English
