The 100 Best Movies Written by Women
Welcome to our guide of the best movies written by women: These are highly Certified Fresh films (nothing on the list falls below 94%) whose screenplay credit goes in part or fully to women.
The journey begins nearly a century ago with 1925’s
Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova, inspired by her own participation in Soviet uprisings. Just two years later,
Metropolis, cinema’s first sci-fi feature masterpiece, emerged out of Germany, written by Thea von Harbou. The 1930s were one of those peak decades for movies, in no small part thanks to
King Kong (co-written by Ruth Rose),
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Reason from India’s leading documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.
On March 12, Gianni de Gregorio, Italy’s laconic answer to Larry David, returns to the humanist comic territory (M
id-August Lunch,
The Salt of Life) with
Citizens of the World about three retirees who plot to move away from Rome to find a better standard of living abroad, while Dominga Sotomayo’s
Too Late to Die Young follows an isolated community in Chile right below the Andes, building a new world away from urban excesses. The slate also includes Hlynur Palmason’s
Celebrate Women's History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.