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Directed by: Ula Stöckl
Stars: Liane Hielscher, Kristine de Loup, Jürgen Arndt, Elke Kummer, Heidi Stroh
Ula Stöckl is a pioneer of women’s film. At a time when in the old Republic there was neither a women’s movement nor women’s film she made the film The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968). This was her graduation film from the Institute for Film at the School…
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Eva Cobo, Julieta Serrano, Chus Lampreave, Carmen Maura
The story follows the character of a retired matador who murders women for his sexual pleasure, videotaping them so that he is able to pleasure himself later on when he watches them. He eventually meets his match in another character (a lawyer) that is just as murderous and…
Directed by: Frank Perry
Stars: Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented…
Directed by: Nouchka van Brakel
Stars: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband, thinking Eve is depressed, sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the…
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
Erica is unmarried only temporarily, in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. This movie shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up, while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self…
Directed by: Yannick Bellon
Stars: Nathalie Nell, Alain Fourès and Michèle Simonnet
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend’s advice, she decides to file a lawsuit. Review: Powerful feminist drama with nasty rape scene. story of a rape victim…
Directed by: Jane Arden
Stars: Sheila Allen, Jane Arden, Jack Bond
There is no easy way to explain this movie as anyone who will watch this movie will have a entirely different experience with a complete different interpretation. There is a dialogue between the doctor and a man who asks her about how to define schizophrenia and she answers,…
Directed by: Jean Van Hearn
Stars: Peter Carpenter, Dyanne Thorne, Paul Fleming
Set somewhere between the sexual revolution and just before the feminist movement, "Love Me Like I Do" is perhaps most notable for featuring Dyanne Thorne of "Ilsa" fame, and as such it is interesting to watch this future "She Wolf of the SS" play Sharon, a doormat of…
Directed by: Tom Huckabee, Kent Smith
Stars: Bill Paxton, Barry Wooller, David Guthrie
Militant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of vice activity. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and the USA has been invaded.
Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance. La dernière femme is a film which will easily please people of varied tastes. It can be liked by feminists,admirers of actors…
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Mariel Hemingway, Anne Bancroft Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her…
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility. Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and…
