10 feminist movies you have to watch!
March is Women's Month, and we recommend films that celebrate women's strength, struggle, authenticity, and fight for equality.
The month of March is dedicated to women, their strength, and the fight for equality.
We owe a lot of what we do today without a doubt to those ladies who fought for it. But, if we are honest, the fight continues, and sometimes we all need a little surrender, and then encouragement on the way to becoming stronger, better, wiser.
That's why it's not bad to take some time for yourself and watch movies that talk about topics that aren't talked about enough. Yes, movies may not be real life, but you will be surprised by the fact that behind perhaps the greatest film achievements that celebrate the power of feminism, there are actually true stories.
One may sometimes get the impression that Hollywood still does not recognize enough female directors, i.e. the view of real-life from a woman's perspective, and that they do not deal so much with topics that are feminist, but far from the fact that there are almost no cult achievements on this list of films.
We single out 10 feminist films that should definitely be watched during March, the month of women's history, in order to inspire you to be better, make your dreams come true, and influence positive changes in life, even when it seems impossible.
1. Little Women (2019)
In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and earns a living as a writer, while her sister Amy is studying painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, whom she was in love with as a child and who proposed to Joe but refused. Their eldest sister, Meg, marries a teacher, while the shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that reunites the family.
2. Hidden Figures (2017)
This film follows the true story of the three black women behind NASA's early exploits in the space race. Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), in particular, was a mathematician whose calculations made the first American space flights successful. Octavia Spencer plays mathematician and computer genius Dorothy Vaughan, and Janelle Monáe plays aerospace engineer Mary Jackson.
3. Carol (2015)
The film is based on Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Price of Salt", and tells the story of Carol, a married mother and a younger woman, Therese Belivet. The two meet at the department store where Therese works during the holiday season, and soon fall in love and get into an affair. This is a story about their forbidden love during an unforgivable period of history.
4. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
This is based on the true story of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader (otherwise known as The Notorious RBG) and her journey to victory in the revolutionary tax dispute, and ultimately to the Supreme Court. Armie Hammer plays a respectable, and always in a good mood husband Marty, while Felicity Jones played the lead role.
5. Becoming Jane (2007)
Anne Hathaway plays Jane Austen, a young woman who resists her parents’ desire to marry the grandson of wealthy Lady Gresham. She has creative ambitions and does not want her marriage without love to ruin her future. Instead, she meets a poor lawyer who inspires her future novels.
6. Erin Brockovich (2000)
Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, who had a car accident for which she is not to blame. After that, she convinces her lawyer to hire her at his company. However, later, after the investigation, she discovers that the nearby town is polluted with water that causes terrible diseases, and that is where her battle for justice begins. These events are based on a true story.
7. Thelma and Louise (1991)
It is a cult "female" film, made in 1991 and awarded an Oscar. Starring Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, and Susan Sarandon, who plays Louise. The timid housewife Thelma joins her friend, the independent waitress, Louise, on her way to escape from their lives. Soon, the innocent escape turns into an escape from the law after Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma in a bar.
8. Steel Magnolias (1989)
In this film so many great actresses star that you will want to write down all the names just to remember them all and understand the movie. Daughter M'Lynn (Sally Field) Shelby, just married, but has diabetes and is struggling with her health. She risks her life by having a baby with her new husband, and although her mother does not approve, she has a circle of friends who support her.
9. Amazing Grace (2018)
This documentary shows old footage of Aretha Franklin performing gospel songs at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972. The film, directed by Sidney Pollack, was not released in 1972 when it should have been, but the singer's family agreed to see the light of day only after her death in 2018.
10. Wild (2014)
In the film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book “Wild,” the lead role went to Reese Witherspoon. The biographical drama is based on a true event when the main character embarks on a journey due to various events that befell her. Reese embarks on the Pacific Crest Trail through the Mojave Desert in Southern California, and during the walk, she thinks about her childhood as well as the death of her mother who pushed her on the path of self-destruction.
