Which movies on Fandor pass the Bechdel Test?
The Bechdel test, named after American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, first made its public appearance in the 1980's. It asks three simple questions to evaluate whether the filmmaker portrays female characters with at least a bare minimum of depth. We find it's a great way to examine the films we watch, and to ask ourselves whether we're supporting cinema that offers a diversity of voices.
It may also be true, as Walt Hickey recently pointed out that featuring meaningful interactions between women is good for business.
Take the Bechdel Test and support diversity in film.
When you are watching a film, ask yourself:
- Are there two or more named female characters?
- Do they talk with each other?
- About something other than a man?
Let's work together to make sure all voices are heard!
While we think there is a time and place for the latest shoot-em up we strongly believe that those aren't the only movies worth seeing. There's a great number of wonderful films that also meet the criteria above. Let's help each other find them. Each time you view a film on Fandor, take the test. If the film passes we'll flag it as meeting the Bechdel Test requirements and add it to this page.
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Films on Fandor that pass the Bechdel test
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Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children...
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35 Shots of Rum
Widely hailed as one of the best films of 2009, the latest from the renowned director of BEAU TRAVAIL, Claire Denis’ sublime 35 SHOTS OF RUM is the moving story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is disrupted by a handsome young suitor. Sumptuously filmed and featuring...
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Lore
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interned by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. Led by...
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Teknolust
Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning science fiction film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons which she clones from her own DNA. Though they look human, the SRA cyborgs were bred as intelligent machines and are immortal. In order to...
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The House that Dripped Blood
A review of the files of the local policeman shows that everyone who has owned a particular mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In one instance, "Method for Murder," the obsessions of a mystery writer provide his wife with an opportunity to do him in. In a second,...
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Meek's Cutoff
Three 1840s' pioneer families become dangerously lost amidst the dust of the Oregon desert in Kelly Reichardt's sensory update of the Western genre, focusing not on typical fare like gun battles, card sharks or dramatic rescues but instead on the long, arduous journey westward. Having hired the...
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Kung-fu Master!
A lovely, bittersweet companion to JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. from director Agnes Varda and star/muse Jane Birkin, this film has nothing to do with martial arts (the film's title comes from an arcade video game played obsessively in the film by a teenaged boy, Julien). Birkin delivers one of her finest...
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In the Folds of the Flesh
In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top "giallo" in EuroCult history: former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli (two decades past her Golden Globe award for "Most Promising Newcomer" and just...
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Female Pervert
Phoebe is seeking a true connection, unfortunately she doesn't relate to people like most in "normal society." She starts making changes, and as her road to self improvement unfolds, her more eccentric interests lead her down a darker path. She meets a few men, hoping to spark a love connection....
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Trust
The second feature film from writer/director Hal Hartley is TRUST. It concerns the unusual romance between two young misfits wandering the same suburban town. When Maria, a recent high school dropout, announces her unplanned pregnancy to her family, her father dies of a heart attack, her mother...
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Ida
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes IDA, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past. Eighteen-year-old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised...
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Casa Grande
Coming-of-age as rude awakening: one high school senior's dawning sexuality is shadowed by the discovery of his upper-class family's looming financial ruin. Polished and penetrating, CASA GRANDE renders a sharp social canvas of contemporary Brazil through the eyes of young Jean, who struggles...
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Home
Switzerland's official entry for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 82nd Academy Awards®, HOME is a mesmerizing fable of modern family life starring internationally renowned actress Isabelle Huppert. Huppert plays Marthe, a happy-go-lucky mother whose family enjoys an idyllic existence in their...
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Diamond Tongues
Edith Welland dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim and immediately books a leading role. When Edith can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she...
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Asylum
Widely regarded as one of the best horror anthology films ever made, this serpentine chiller takes you deep inside the psyches of the patients of an experimental asylum. Under the guidance of a controversial psychiatrist who engages in some very strange practices, the patients of the Archway...
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Hannah Arendt
In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker...
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Tall as the Baobab Tree
In a rural Senegalese village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her eleven-year-old sister from an arranged marriage. A powerful voice from Africa's young generation, TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE poignantly depicts a family...
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Butter on the Latch
Former performance artist Josephine Decker's stunning debut feature is a deeply subjective and mysterious portrait of a frantic young woman, Sarah, who leaves the city for the apparent safety of a Balkan music camp hidden deep in the California woods. Once there she reconnects...
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The Bridesmaid
It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life of handsome young Philippe at the wedding of his younger sister. As their passion for one another intensifies, Philippe slowly discovers that Senta is shrouded in mystery. When one day she asks Philippe to perform a terrible deed...
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Halima's Path
Years before the Bosnian War ravaged their lives, Safija becomes pregnant by Slavo, a Christian man. Beaten and ostracized by her Muslim family, Safija gave the infant boy to her childless aunt, Halima, to raise and told Slavo the child was stillborn. Nearly twenty years later, war has devastated...
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The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye's debut feature is as controversial as it is sexy and funny. Cheryl is a twenty-something black lesbian working as a clerk in a video store while struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, an obscure black actress from the 1930's. Cheryl is surprised to...
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Starlet
STARLET explores the unlikely friendship between twenty-one year old aspiring actress Jane and elderly widow Sadie after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her chihuahua Starlet while...
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Breakfast with Curtis
Syd, an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine, caused a rift five years ago between the freewheeling bohemian residents of his house and the family next door. Over the course of a balmy summer, he now tries to draft the boy next door to make videos...
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Boccaccio '70
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in BOCCACCIO '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET), Federico Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA), Luchino Visconti (THE LEOPARD) and Vittorio De Sica (BICYCLE THIEVES) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg,...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy," Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon....
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Keep Smiling
"It's all about soul beauty, it's a beauty contest of Mothers, so dear Georgian mothers please keep on smiling." In 2010, a Mother's Beauty Contest is held in Georgia, Tbilisi. The winner will get an apartment and $25,000. Ten mothers, with seven of them belonging to the poorest population layer,...
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Uncertain Terms
Needing a sudden escape from the city, Robbie flees Brooklyn for the countryside to stay with his aunt who runs a home for pregnant teenagers. As the only man in the house, Robbie inadvertently becomes the object of the girls' attention... and affection. He eventually meets Nina, who is mature...
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For the Plasma
In a remote house on the coast of Maine, a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers she can reconfigure her perception to predict shifts in global...
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Come Undone
This sensual gay classic COME UNDONE explores a young man's homosexual awakening and the turbulence of first love in a small French seaside town. Mathieu, a quiet 18-year-old spending the summer with his troubled family, meets the handsome and aggressive Cedric, who takes an interest in the...
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Queen to Play
Academy Award®- winner Kevin Kline and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Helene comes upon a...
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The Maid
After twenty-three years working as a devoted maid in an upper class Chilean household, embittered and ailing Raquel can no longer care for the family alone. Trapped by guilt, matriarch Pilar refuses to let Raquel go, even though it is clear their longtime maid is slowly unraveling. Instead,...
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Alps
ALPS is a mysterious and moving investigation into the process of mourning, a stunningly original follow-up to director Yorgos Lanthimos' Academy Award®-nominated debut, DOGTOOTH. An oddball group of four people (made up of two hospital employees, a gymnast and her coach) form a secret society...
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Homemakers
Part-time punk singer Irene McCabey moonlights as full-time harbinger of chaos (and her life in Austin is crumbling as a result). When her ex-girlfriend moves to kick her out of their band, Irene receives big news: an estranged grandfather has bequeathed to her a dilapidated house across the...
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In Bloom
Early nineties, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is immersed in violence, there's a war on the Black Sea coast in Abkhazia and vigilante justice plagues society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable...
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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore
Mary Jane is a sexually curious teenage girl who sees sex as a way to become cool. Written, directed and produced by Sarah Jacobson, MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE is lauded for depicting sex from the female perspective. The film premiered at Sundance in 1997 and features...
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Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
Two sisters share a complex and compelling relationship in the well crafted film about sibling rivalry. Anna seems dependent, emotionally and economically, on Maria. Successive inward turns of the screw reveal them, Siamese twin-like, bonded to one another, so that eventually...
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Thirst
She was innocent, pure and unsuspecting. Now, Kate Davis has been kidnapped by a bloodthirsty cult and taken to a remote village. It is there that she discovers her unholy fate! According to the prophecies of the Brotherhood, she must fulfill her destiny by marrying their leader and helping them...
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Satan's School for Girls
Unwilling to accept the official ruling of her sister's death as a suicide, Elisabeth (Pamela Franklin) enrolls at her sister's boarding school under an assumed name to find the truth. The truth, as the film's title makes abundantly clear, involves a Satanic cult with sinister...
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Blood Pressure
Nicole, forty-one years old, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids, who is at a point in her life when she is asking if "this is it," or whether there's something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous Observer who knows her daily habits, and her potential, intimately. He...
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Uninvited
In a Florida research lab, a seemingly harmless orange cat has developed the ability to transform itself into a hideous mutant creature. A group of gangsters and criminals unknowingly bring the furry monster aboard a yacht in the Caribbean. The heinous feline begins terrorizing the passengers and...
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Commune
In 1968, two hippies hiking near Mt. Shasta in Northern California stumbled across an unlikely property for sale: an abandoned goldmine and surrounding land, 300 acres for $22,000. Fueled by contributions from the Doors, the Monkees, Frank Zappa and others, they bought the property and named it...
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Beeswax
BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren (played by extraordinary newcomers Tilly and Maggie Hatcher) living in Austin, Texas. Jeannie co-owns a bright, candy-colored vintage clothing store. When a conflict with her business partner...
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Jellyfish
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the...
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Prey
Glory Annan (FELICITY) and Sally Faulkner (VAMPYRES) star in this controversial British Sci-Fi Horror thriller from cult director Norman J. Warren (INSEMINOID, SATAN'S SLAVE). Something has fallen to Earth. Something terrible. A merciless, carnivorous predator with an insatiable hunger for flesh....
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Leo's Room
In the heart of Montevideo, the affable but secretly troubled Leo wraps himself in the comfort of his small rented room, unmotivated to finish his college thesis or find a job and content with infrequent visits from his girlfriend. After their six-month relationship ends, Leo begins to break out...
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Exit Elena
With no place to call home, nineteen year old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother and cat. Eventually, Elena strikes something of a balance (until the prodigal son...
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À tout de suite
A stylish thriller, A TOUT DE SUITE is the highly anticipated film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot. Based on actual events, it tells the story of free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank robber and joins him on the run, a dizzying cross-continent...
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The Edge
THE EDGE is a story of suppressed passion and destructive obsession set in a remote post WWII Siberian village, sparked by the arrival of Ignat, an emotionally and physically damaged Soviet tank commander with an obsession for steam engines. His self destructive streak causes increasing havoc...
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Hard Labor
A middle-class couple slowly succumbs to the allures of entrepreneurship and the horrors of a schizophrenic job market. As Helena starts a new business venture (a small grocery store), her white-collar husband Otavio is let go from his job. Determined to stay afloat, Otavio goes on a series of...
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Funny Ha Ha
Marnie is 23 and "wandering the Earth," perhaps in search of romance, or employment--or perhaps just avoiding both. Mostly she's just trying to keep her sense of humor as a constellation of friends and would-be lovers engage in their own post-collegiate flailing around her. Rarely have the loose,...
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Penance
Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa's eerie, intense psychological thriller PENANCE unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim's unhinged...
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Open
The first American film to ever win the Teddy Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, OPEN weaves together tales of a young hermaphrodite's journey through the largest mall in America, a couple mending themselves into one entity through plastic surgery, and the effects of hormone use on sex,...
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I am a good person / I am a bad person
Well-intentioned but misguided filmmaker Ruby White leaves her husband and son in Toronto and embarks on a European film festival tour with her eighteen-year-old daughter, Sara, tagging along as her assistant. Ruby over-shares, doesn't listen and is a bundle of insecurities,...
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All the Light in the Sky
Jane Adams stars as an actress living in Malibu who faces harsh realities of the industry as her age exempts her from more and more acting opportunities. Amidst this career and life crisis enters the actress's niece, played by Sophia Takal, who arrives for a weekend stay and...
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Conceiving Ada
In this award-winning film (which was the first to use "virtual sets"), Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language one hundred years before computers...
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Vision
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In VISION, New German...
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Two-Bit Waltz
In the wonderfully dysfunctional tradition of The Royal Tenenbaums, teenage years are always messy... but for Maude, things couldn't seem more tragic. Within one week just prior to her 18th birthday, she is suspended from school, stranded by her best friend, dumped by the boy she "loves," and...
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52 Tuesdays
A sixteen year old's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once-a-week every week (only on Tuesdays), these unique filmmaking rules bring a...
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Hester Street
Gitl and her son arrive on the Lower East side of New York in 1896 to join her husband Jake. While Jake, who has job in a sweatshop and an English-speaking girlfriend, has completely embraced America, Gitl clings to her old country ways. Jake is embarrassed to be seen with her as he struggles to...
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My Man Godfrey
Whilst on a scavenger hunt for a high society party game, Cornelia Bullock and her sister Irene find Godfrey, a tramp living on the city dump. Godfrey takes a dislike to Cornelia and decides to help Irene win the hunt for a "forgotten man." Soon Irene persuades him to work for her family as the...
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The Inheritance
Ulrich Thomsen (of the festival hit CELEBRATION) stars in this absorbing, Dogma-like look at family loyalties, personal responsibility and class distinctions, made under the mantle of Zentropa Entertainments, Lars von Trier's production company. Thomsen is Christoffer, a Dane living abroad in...
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The Arbor
Instead of making a conventional documentary or adapting Andrea Dunbar's play "The Arbor" for the screen, director Clio Barnard has crafted a truly unique work that transcends genre and defies categorization. Following two years conducting audio interviews with Dunbar's family, friends and...
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Loving Couples
For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna's controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, "The Misses von Pahlen," an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant...
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Desire Will Set You Free
DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE takes you deep into the free-spirited, drug-fueled, queer-paradise of contemporary Berlin. Ezra, a struggling American writer, meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant escort, and he introduces him to his world of clubs and parties, a dizzying and vibrant...
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Hero
Alexandre Rockwell's rangy, offhandedly eccentric debut feature follows a disabled teenager and his older adoptive sisters who, when pronounced by some protective-services bureaucrat to be "not our idea of a normal family," shed their gloomy urban confines and set out for Truth or Consequences,...
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Lovedolls Superstar
The Lovedolls return from their untimely demise in this 1986 sequel to DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS. Patch Kelley becomes Patch Christ, the leader of an acid-damaged religious cult who rescues has been Kitty Karryall from a boozy, wasted life. Once reunited, they recruit Sunset...
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Hide and Seek
HIDE AND SEEK is a daring exploration into wild, uncharted territory, in the 1960s. Lou is a twelve year old girl who daydreams in a tree house, wins a rock throwing contest and is horrified to discover that her best friend is taking an interest in earrings and boys. Interwoven with Lou's story...
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Rânia
Sixteen-year-old Rania studies dance and lives with her mother and two brothers in restricted circumstances. With her father, a fisherman, also facing hard times, Rania contemplates following her friend Lizi and becoming a dancer in a grotty nightclub. A wonderful opportunity then presents itself...
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Sheer Madness
Director Margarethe von Trotta weaves a wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism around the relationship between two seemingly opposite women. Olga is a professor of women's literature, Ruth is a gifted and extremely reticent artist who is desperately fearful of the outside world....
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Bandaged
Old-style horror blends with forbidden love in this period thriller. Lucille lives with her domineering father and great aunt in a creepy mansion out in the middle of nowhere. She's about to turn eighteen and longs to go to college to study poetry, but her surgeon father insists the sciences are...
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Clean
Maynard Yates is trying to clean up his life when chance gives him a job as a limousine driver. He is soon chauffeuring the Hollywood elite and finds himself submerged in the dark, seedy underbelly of celebrity. When his own bad habits return, Maynard is unwillingly led into a downward spiral and...
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Umm Kulthum
She had the musicality of Ella Fitzgerald, the public presence of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of Elvis Presley. Born a peasant at the turn of the last century, legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum earned a position of great wealth and influence. She was a powerful symbol, first of the...
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Oma and Bella
Two older Jewish women, best friends who live together in Berlin (and one of whom, Regina “Oma” Karolinski, is the filmmaker’s grandmother), are Holocaust survivors who have remained in Germany since the war. Oma and Bella spend their days telling stories and cracking jokes, dispensing advice and...
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Dishonored Lady
In this star-studded mystery, Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a major Manhattan magazine by day and a party girl at night. A string of failed relationships and years of burning the candle at both ends have taken their toll and Madeleine is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As her...
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Tax Day
On a sunny April 15th morning, Irene and Paula set out on a walk to the post office. They're soon led astray by two young men who take them on an urban canoe ride through the downtown canals. As they make their way back to the post office, Irene and Paula are repeatedly diverted by a variety of...
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Putty Hill
A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield. At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his...
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Torremolinos 73
Spain, circa 1973. Alfredo is a struggling door to door encyclopedia salesman. Meanwhile his wife Carmen is obsessed with becoming a mother. Alfredo’s boss gives Alfredo a choice: make 'educational' sex films at home for a Scandinavian distributor, or get fired. Alfredo chooses the former, and it...
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Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
Terry and Tessa are married ex cult deprogrammers living in the San Francisco Bay Area. A "deprogrammer" is a professional contracted by families to kidnap people away from dangerous cults. Terry and Tessa's cryptic motto during their often verbally and physically abusive...
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with...
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Curling
Set on the fringe of society in a remote part of the countryside, CURLING takes a keen look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François devotes an awkward energy to Julyvonne. The fragile balance of their relationship will be jeopardized...
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Impostors
A polysexual vaudeville playing promiscuously with melodramatic intrigue, camp and intellectual gamesmanship, IMPOSTORS remains as unclassifiable as it was in 1979. Its slippery "plot" centers on the romance between besotted Peter (Peter Evans) and elusive Tina (Ellen McElduff). She's a faithless...
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Villa des roses
When Louise's husband dies on the Titanic trying to emigrate, she must leave their son with her aging father to set up a new life for her family in Paris. Working as a maid in the run-down Villa des Rosas, she falls in love with a painter, but their relationship proves tumultuous on the eve of...
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Balcony
A ten year old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the fourth floor. Neighbors and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police and firefighters for help. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable. BALCONY is an observation of the authentic mindset of our society, which...
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Four Windows
Divided into four chapters: Son, Daughter, Father and Mother, FOUR WINDOWS is a look inside the brains of your not so normal German family. The very handsome and sexy Son leaves for school in the morning only to spend his time cruising the local gay video arcade. There he hooks up with an older...
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SpaceDisco One
In this sequel of sorts to both LOGAN’S RUN and 1984, George Orwell's Winston Smith runs into the daughters of Logan 5 and Francis 7 as they're busy running amok in a park, shooting laser beams at one another. A roller-skating rink in space, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA references and a Ministry of Truth...
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Women's Prison
This taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution using the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society. Her...
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Sangue do meu sangue
Márcia is a single mother with two grown-up children who works as a cook and shares her home in a social housing estate with her sister Ivete, a hairdresser. One day, Cláudia, her daughter, a student nurse who also works as a supermarket cashier, tells her that she has fallen...
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Hunting
Tina is high-strung and over-worked. Her boss (whom she refers to as "Rick the Dick") is so strict about personal time she can't even apartment hunt with her roommate Maureen. Already suffering from terrifying chronic stress dreams about a creepy, claustrophobic hallway and not wanting anymore...
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The Fish Fall in Love
Atieh's singular passion is food, and her small but popular restaurant on the sleepy Caspian coast is her pride and joy. But when Aziz, her former fiancé, appears after a twenty-year absence, the women believe he has intentions of closing the restaurant, so Atieh prepares his...
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The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
Director Margarethe von Trotta's first solo effort is an intense political drama that embraces the theme of closeness between women. Christa is a young mother who, distraught over the prospect that her children's day care center is running out of money, executes a bank robbery...
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Enough!
Set in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s, ENOUGH! follows two women on the dangerous search for the younger woman's husband, a journalist whose writings resulted in his disappearance. Both women represent anachronisms in Islamist Algeria: the younger woman is a doctor, the older a nurse with vivid...
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Strangers in Good Company
In this film by Academy Award® winner Cynthia Scott, seven old women become stranded at a deserted farmhouse miles from civilization. They don't have much food, a decent place to sleep or much in common. But these surprising, remarkable women turn a crisis into a magical time...
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Sister Smile
In the early 1960s, the hit single "Dominique" was something of a tonic for the troubles of the era. Little was known then nor now of Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile), the Belgian nun who recorded the astonishingly successful album and then, shortly thereafter, left the convent. In his phenomenal...
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Virtual Love
A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him? Commissioned by ZDF German Television, VIRTUAL LOVE features a number...
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Empire of Dirt
Going home was never an option for single mother Lena Mahikan. But when her thirteen year old daughter Peeka overdoses in the streets of Toronto, she is forced to return home to her estranged mother and face a life-long legacy of shame and resentment. EMPIRE OF DIRT is a story about second...
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Sticky Wicket
In the small town of Brunswick, Maine, the Women-Only Croquet Club is the only organized resistance to a corporate takeover by an invading cineplex movie chain. In its direct path is a 100 seat, hippie-built theater called the Eveningstar Cinema, crunched into a tiny, jewelry-store-sized space at...
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Mothers of Men
Made two years before the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, this melodrama depicts a future in which a woman holds high political office. Dorothy Davenport Reid plays an ardent suffragist who ascends from judge to governor and manages, despite the odds, to maintain her...
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Face
An annual Halloween fear competition between a fraternity and sorority goes awry when drugs, alcohol and the old battle of the sexes are mixed together. What is on the line? The losers must do anything the winners ask for one night. The bros won last year. They not only violated the loser but...
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From Two Worlds as a Keepsake
1988, in a multi-ethnic town in Soviet Azerbaijan, eight-year old Ashen's divorced Armenian parents are in an emotional tug-of-war over which of them will raise their child. Ashen's custody becomes a complex matter when family tragedy and political danger impact decisions made...
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Captain Video
"Captain Video" was such a nationwide sensation that in 1951, Columbia Pictures Corporation contracted to produce a theatrical serial of the Captain's exploits, the first television show ever to be adapted to the big screen. The result, CAPTAIN VIDEO: MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE has been hailed as...
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Black Rat
From Kenta Fukusaku comes a twisted tale about the lives and deaths of several high schoolers. They receive a message from their friend Asuka telling them to go back to their classroom in the middle of the night. This ordinarily wouldn't be an issue, except for the fact that Asuka was supposed to...
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Papa's Song
PAPA'S SONG is a drama of domestic tension and cross-cultural misunderstanding. Nico Verema, a decorous, somewhat gloomy Dutch magistrate, lives happily with his wife, Shirley, who is from Curacao. Shirley's two young nephews, in the Netherlands to escape a bad situation at home, complete the...
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How to Conquer America in One Night
Newly arrived in Montréal, and determined to conquer North America by charming blond-haired women, Gégé, a Haitian in his thirties, lands up at Fanfan's, his nostalgic uncle who has given up poetry for a good old taxicab and dreams of returning to his homeland. Over the course...
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White Rabbit
How an Iraq War veteran, battle-trained in maximum security telecom encryption and battling her own post-combat trauma, uses her high-tech expertise to bring down a tea party candidate for the United States Senate. Twenty-four years old and home from a hellish stint in Iraq, Kerryann Terkel...
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Wretched Lives
WRETCHED LIVES focuses on Vanessa, a cosmetics consultant who is forced to care for her troubled and mentally-challenged sister after the sudden death of their mother. Her hustler boyfriend, Olivier, seems unreliable and Vanessa soon abandons him for Uno, an ostensibly liberal and caring...
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Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle, investigating their death, decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht.
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Año uña
AÑO UÑA chronicles the impossible romance between Molly, a twenty-one year old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty. Molly travels to Mexico where she rents a room in Diego's house. A close relationship immediately develops between the two. Diego, who had previously been...
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Life Kills Me
Life and death come wrapped in a mutual embrace, both absurd and poignant, in this smart comedy about an unlikely friendship between a grieving cinematographer and a morbidly obsessed drifter. At work on a seriously schlocky, low-budget horror film, Gaspar is still reeling from the untimely death...
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Cinemanovels
In this slyly humorous family drama about what we inherit (and don't inherit) from our parents, Grace has not spoken to her recently deceased father, a fabled filmmaker, in years. She surprises her confidant (Jennifer Beals) and herself when, on a trip to pick up some of his belongings, she...
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A Leap to Take
A small-time club owner takes his wife out for a birthday "night on the town" accompanied by a retinue of friends: would- be escorts, potential johns, ersatz modern artists; a motley group watching their lives go up in smoke due to the economic downturn. A satirical rocket ride of political...
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Collapse
America faces grim times. The financial collapse we are experiencing endangers homes, families, livelihoods and rattles the peace of mind of millions. It is perhaps an indication of the relative social irrelevance of much contemporary art that few people are asking what role film, music, dance...
