Want to combat Hollywood gender discrimination? Watch movies by women.

May 12, 2016 8:04 PM

Here’s a list of 245 movies directed by women, on Netflix right now. The list is compiled by Film Fatales.
posted by ocherdraco (20 comments total)

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return directed by Kari Skogland

On it. Back later.

also this is fantastic, thanks for posting
posted by Existential Dread at 8:16 PM on May 12, 2016

What a great idea/resource!
posted by lunasol at 8:38 PM on May 12, 2016

AWESOME
posted by sallybrown at 9:03 PM on May 12, 2016

Oooh! When Billie Beat Bobby! I haven't seen that since it first aired. Definitely adding that to the list. Thanks!
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 9:49 PM on May 12, 2016

Agnieszka Holland, Jane Campion, Sally Potter
posted by My Dad at 10:03 PM on May 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

Is there an easy way to filter this to Canadian Netflix?
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 10:16 PM on May 12, 2016

Is there an easy way to filter this to Canadian Netflix?

Find the half you're least interested in. Those ones will be on our Netflix.
posted by northernish at 10:28 PM on May 12, 2016 [11 favorites]

Guinevere directed by Audrey Wells
http://www.netflix.com/title/18112261

I'd like to recommend this one. Funny and thoughtful.
posted by bigendian at 10:46 PM on May 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

Try Susanne Bier's After the Wedding, she also directed the best foreign film Oscar winning' In a Better World' and the recent and much lauded Night Manager series for the BBC. AtW has Mads Mikkelsen and everything.
posted by biffa at 12:17 AM on May 13, 2016 [4 favorites]

I figure out a way to use the audio player on my iPhone to listen to Netflix while the phone is usable for other things (reading, gaming on mute, reading Metafilter). If I work my way through these movies that way does it count on their "watched" count?
posted by tilde at 3:46 AM on May 13, 2016

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return directed by Kari Skogland [...] On it. Back later.

NO WAIT
posted by webmutant at 6:48 AM on May 13, 2016

This is awesome! I'm totally going to use this list to branch out and see some stuff I never would have seen otherwise! Or I might just rewatch Clueless five or six times with Bride and Prejudice mixed in there a couple times. Probably the second thing.
posted by artychoke at 7:13 AM on May 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

Hateship Loveship was remarkably good!
posted by WalkerWestridge at 9:14 AM on May 13, 2016

Ravenous directed by Antonia Bird

If you have not seen Ravenous... get on that. Now.
posted by brundlefly at 11:09 AM on May 13, 2016 [3 favorites]

Just watched The Voices by Marjane Satrapi on CDN Netflix. There's talking animals. It's violent and disturbing. Nice closing credits.
posted by ovvl at 5:50 PM on May 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

Previously.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:29 PM on May 13, 2016

Watching more movies directed by women is definitely good for you, and I guess it could technically be said to combat gender discrimination in Hollywood, though I don't know if anyone is slicing and dicing Netflix viewership trends with that granularity. Something that is probably better is getting out and paying hard cash to see movies directed by women in theaters, so if a theater near you is playing The Invitation by Karyn Kusama, you might give some extra consideration to seeing that. You can also follow women like the especially vocal @Lexialex [previously] on Twitter in hopes that joining her burgeoning social media army will help convince sexist Hollywood assholes to give her more jobs directing action for TV and movies.
posted by Mothlight at 8:29 PM on May 13, 2016

Something that is probably better is getting out and paying hard cash to see movies directed by women in theaters, so if a theater near you is playing The Invitation by Karyn Kusama, you might give some extra consideration to seeing that.

Also, fwiw, Money Monster just came out and was directed by Jodie Foster. (Yep, that Jodie Foster.) If you're looking to vote with your dollars, I imagine a lot of folks in Hollywood will be looking to see how it does on its opening weekend.
posted by mstokes650 at 9:20 PM on May 13, 2016

Susanna White has a new film out in UK cinemas this weekend, 'Our Kind of Traitor'.
posted by biffa at 8:47 AM on May 14, 2016

If you haven't seen Jesus Camp, stop what you're doing now and go watch it. We'll wait.
posted by decathecting at 11:50 AM on May 14, 2016