Related Recs

📽

Films directed by women

Horror/thriller: Jennifer’s Body (2009) Promising Young Woman (2020) Shirley (2020) The Love Witch (2016) Shiva Baby Bottoms (2023) The Beguiled (2017) Fresh (2022) The Power of the Dog (2021) We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Censor (2021) The Substance (2024) The Lost Daughter (2021) Raw (2016) Saltburn (2023) Another Earth (2011) Comedy/feel good: Waitress (2007) Birds of Prey (2020) Austen land (2013) Bend it Like Beckham (2002) Good luck to you, Leo Grande (2022) Marie Antoinette (2006) Little Women (2019) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) drama/Slice of life/emotional: The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) Pariah (2011) Nomadland (2020) Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) Rocks (2019) Lost in Translation (2003) American Honey (2016) Babyteeth (2019) Can you Ever Forgive me (2018) Emily (2022) Crime/court/political drama: Zola (2020) Queen and Slim (2019) Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Selma (2014) Hustlers (2019) One Night in Miami (2020) Romance/love story (mostly lesbian): Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Tell it To the Bees (2018) My Days of Mercy (2017) Vita and Virginia (2018) Emma (2020) Here’s a list of some of my favourite films directed by women (all rated 4 stars or above by me!). I’ve attempted to losely group them into genres which was impossible and I’ve done badly, but hopefully it will make it possible to sort of choose a vibe you might want.

@mouse

Nov 3, 2024

🎥

my fav films that implore a feminist theory analysis

WARNING: potential spoilers as i list some of the movies’ major themes (from newest to oldest) - Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015): sisterhood, female liberation, bodily autonomy, sexuality, domestication, female solidarity, innocence     - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu, 2007): bodily autonomy, female friendships, female solidarity - Born In Flames (dir. Lizzie Borden, 1983): intersectionality with race, queerness, and class; female solidarity, white feminism, female liberation, rape culture  - House (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977): the transition from girlhood to womanhood, female friendships, domestication, individualism, femininity as an ideal, mother-daughter relationships, innocence - 3 Women (dir. Robert Altman, 1977): individualism, domestication, motherhood, beauty standards and other societal expectations of women, the transition from girlhood to womanhood, innocence - One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (dir. Agnès Varda, 1977): impacts of second-wave feminist movement, bodily autonomy, female liberation, female solidarity - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975): individualism, family dynamics, domestication, bodily autonomy, objectification, female liberation  - A Woman Under the Influence (dir. John Cassavetes, 1974): intersectionality with class, sexuality, family dynamics, domestication, societal expectations of women - *Female Trouble (dir. John Waters 1974): intersectionality with queerness, sexuality, femininity, beauty standards and other societal expectations of women, mother-daughter relationships,  - Cléo from 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda, 1962): objectification, the value of beauty, self-image, individualism  *i do not recommend this for those who may be sensitive to particularly triggering depictions of assault or abuse

@worldwhineweb

Mar 28, 2024

👯

not exhaustive but some of my favs directed by women

Dahomey (2024) Love lies bleeding (2024) Ladybird (2017) Thirteen (2003) How to have sex (2023) Persepolis (2007) Bottoms (2023) Aftersun (2023) Bound (1996) I can’t think straight (2008) Are you there God, it’s me Margaret (2023) Rye lane (2023) Polite society (2023) The Woman King (2022) Saint Omer (2023) Tahara (2020) Little women (2019) Pariah (2011) Bend it like Beckham (2002) Love & Basketball (2000) The Watermelon Woman (1996) Desert Hearts (1985) Jennifer’s Body (2009) Portrait of a lady on fire (2019) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

@tiff

Nov 3, 2024

Top Recs from @gusher

🎞

GUEST 001: SHOKA SUNFLOWER'S movies to crash out to

INTRODUCING “GUSHER’S LETTERBOXD LIST SERIES*” !! Shoka Sunflower, an alternative rapper/singer, songwriter, screenwriter, and co-founder of GUSHER* based in the city of Johannesburg, takes us through a selection of 10 films to “Crash Out To,” featuring Past Lives (2023), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and more.  Listen to Shoka Sunflower's latest project, 'ECOSYSTEM_01', and watch his latest screenwriting credit, 'REFILL, 2024'. Check out Shoka’s list of 10 Movies To Crash Out To! Featuring Beau is Afraid (2023) Directed by #AriAster , Black Swan Directed by #DarrenAronofsky & more!

@gusher

Mar 3, 2025

🎞

GUEST 002: Bahbahroo’s List of Movies That Failed Financially, Not Creatively

Bahbahroo, a post-disciplinary artist, multimedia designer and filmmaker, currently creatively directing work here at GUSHER* based in Cape Town and Johannesburg, selects Movies that failed financially but not creatively, including Synecdoche, New York (2008), Gummo (2000), Bottle Rocket (1996), and more.  Listen to Bahbahroo's latest demo release, 'Limbo Demo v2', and watch their latest short film, 'REFILL, 2024'. Check out Bahbah’s list of 10 Movies That Failed Financially, Not Creatively. Featuring Gummo (2023) Directed by #HarmonyKorine, Bamboozled Directed by #SpikeLee & more!

@gusher

Mar 13, 2025

🎞

GUEST 004: Kiara Braum's Movies To Match Your Existential Crisis

Guest 004: Kiara Braum  Kiara Braum, a poet, writer, and artist from Johannesburg, explores memory, the mundane, and the magical through her work. Blending auto-fiction and poetry, she crafts raw, introspective narratives that blur the line between reality and imagination.  One day, she hopes to discover what exactly it all means.  Kiara selects Movies to: Match Your Existential Crisis, a list of films that unravel, reflect, and embrace the chaos of being.  Read her latest piece, Fight with your boyfriend and clean up the vomit, and subscribe to her Substack, The Mountain Allows, for more of her writing.

@gusher

Mar 23, 2025