Indie Outlook's 180 Essential Films by Female Directors
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Film critic Matt Fagerholm, assistant editor at RogerEbert.com, decided to compensate for the extreme lack of female directors being nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards by curating a list of 180 essential films directed by women.
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Efter brylluppet
2006 — a.k.a. After the Wedding, in 1 top list Check -
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
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Alba
2016, in 1 top list Check -
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American Fable
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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American Psycho
2000, in 12 top lists Check -
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American Splendor
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
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Hide and Seek
2014, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Armor of Light
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
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Audrie & Daisy
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Babadook
2014, in 4 top lists Check -
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Bastard Out of Carolina
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
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Beach Rats
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Belle
2013, in 1 top list Check -
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Bend It Like Beckham
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
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Beyond the Lights
2014 — a.k.a. Blackbird, in 0 top lists Check -
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Billy Madison
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bobbi Jene
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Boys Don't Cry
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Breadwinner
2017, in 1 top list -
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Bright Star
2009, in 4 top lists Check -
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Broken English
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
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Buster's Mal Heart
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cairo Time
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
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Casting JonBenet
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Children of a Lesser God
1986, in 2 top lists Check -
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Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage
1928, in 0 top lists -
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Circumstance
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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Citizenfour
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
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Cléo de 5 à 7
1962 — a.k.a. Cleo from 5 to 7, in 15 top lists Check -
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Cloud Atlas
2012, in 1 top list Check -
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Clueless
1995, in 8 top lists Check -
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Komunia
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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Betoniyö
2013 — a.k.a. Concrete Night, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sedmikrásky
1966 — a.k.a. Daisies, in 19 top lists Check -
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Dance, Girl, Dance
1940, in 4 top lists Check -
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Daughters of the Dust
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
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Deliver Us from Evil
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2015, in 1 top list Check -
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The Dish & the Spoon
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dreamcatcher
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Edge of Seventeen
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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Edith+Eddie
2017, in 0 top lists -
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An Education
2009, in 1 top list Check -
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Elegy
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
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Enough Said
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
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Eve's Bayou
1997, in 6 top lists Check -
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Fast Rodney, Who Was on His Way Out
2016, in 0 top lists -
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À ma soeur!
2001 — a.k.a. Fat Girl, in 4 top lists Check -
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First They Killed My Father
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Fish Tank
2009, in 8 top lists Check
Last updated on Jul 12, 2018 by Gershwin; source