🏷 Discover The Best Woman Director Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Empowering the Lens: Celebrating Woman Directors in Film and Television

From the silver screen to the small screen, woman directors have been making waves in the entertainment industry, bringing unique perspectives and stories to the forefront. In this article, we'll delve into the best movies and TV shows directed by women, highlighting their impact on the industry and inspiring a new generation of female filmmakers.

Cast

Cemre Paksoy

Bruce McKenzie

Elu00e9onore Hendricks

Colleen Rose Trundy

Night Nurse (2026)

10.0 1 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NR

Story: As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

Plot: eroticism, manipulation, scam, female protagonist, retirement community, woman director, phone call

Cast

Miyu Irino

Saori Hayami

Aoi Yuuki

Kensho Ono

A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)

8.4 4.6K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

Plot: high school, friendship, suicide, suicide attempt, deaf, bullying, coming of age, school, ...

Cast

Zendaya

Hunter Schafer

Sydney Sweeney

Jacob Elordi

Euphoria (2019) TV Show

8.3 10.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Israel

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

Plot: drug crime, sex scandal, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), relationship problems, childhood trauma, sex addiction, addiction, love-hate relationship, ...

Time: 2010s

Cast

Jamilli Correa

Fu00e1tima Macedo

Ru00f4mulo Braga

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Emily Pantoja

Manas (2025)

8.3 37 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil, Portugal

Duration: 101 min.

Story: Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.

Plot: child abuse, coming of age, domestic violence, incest, woman director, patricide

Cast

Tom Hiddleston

Sophia Di Martino

Wunmi Mosaku

Eugene Cordero

Loki (2021) TV Show

8.2 12.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Plot: secret organization, time, time travel, superhero, based on comic, spin off, marvel cinematic universe (mcu), alternate timeline, ...

Cast

Nou00e9mie Merlant

Adu00e8le Haenel

Luu00e0na Bajrami

Valeria Golino

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

8.1 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Style: melancholy

Plot: island, fire, beach, arranged marriage, classical music, painting, painter, greek mythology, ...

Time: 18th century

Cast

Markella Kavenagh

Maiah Stewardson

Edwina Wren

Harvey Zielinski

My First Summer (2020)

8.0 279 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Australia

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.

Plot: drowning, coming of age, dog, mental illness, novelist, death of mother, first love, lgbt, ...

Cast

Pepper LaBeija

Octavia St. Laurent

Venus Xtravaganza

Dorian Corey

Paris Is Burning (1991)

8.0 550 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: R

Story: Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

Plot: new york city, transvestism, aids, homophobia, drag queen, male homosexuality, transsexual, subculture, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

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Kim Eul-boon

Yoo Seung-ho

Dong Hyo-hee

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Min Kyung-hoon

The Way Home (2002)

8.0 237 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: South Korea

Duration: 86 min.

Story: This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.

Plot: grandparent grandchild relationship, woman director, grandmother grandson relationship

Cast

Kim Go-eun

Nam Ji-hyun

Park Ji-hu

Wi Ha-jun

Little Women (2022) TV Show

8.0 192 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Three sisters, who only have each other and never enough money, get entangled in a conspiracy involving the rich and powerful.

Plot: sibling relationship, based on novel or book, investigation, murder, woman director, sister sister relationship, sisters

Cast

Jesse Garcia

Annie Gonzalez

Emilio Rivera

Vanessa Martinez

Flamin' Hot (2023)

7.9 828 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.

Plot: factory worker, factory, biography, based on true story, janitor, mexican american, woman director

Cast

Emilia Clarke

Sam Claflin

Janet McTeer

Charles Dance

Me Before You (2016)

7.9 13.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.

Plot: depression, small town, based on novel or book, artist, wheelchair, romance, love, caretaker, ...

Place: england

Cast

Rodrigo Santoro

Othon Bastos

Cu00e1ssia Kis

Dani Nefussi

Brainstorm (2001)

7.9 234 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil

Duration: 84 min.

Story: Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

Style: shocking

Plot: woman director, powerful, urgent

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Jennifer Garner

Jared Leto

Denis O'Hare

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

7.9 9.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

Style: intense

Plot: aids, homophobia, rodeo, biography, dallas, texas, based on true story, hiv, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: texas

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Cast

Francis Ford Coppola

Eleanor Coppola

John Milius

George Lucas

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

7.9 420 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

Plot: movie business, behind the scenes, madness, ego, making of, life imitates art, woman director, typhoon

Place: philippines

Cast

Alex Honnold

Tommy Caldwell

Jimmy Chin

Sanni McCandless

Free Solo (2018)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.

Plot: extreme sports, mountain, yosemite, mountain climbing, woman director, free climbing, rock climbing, el capitan, ...

Place: california

Cast

Emilia Jones

Marlee Matlin

Troy Kotsur

Eugenio Derbez

CODA (2021)

7.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Plot: parent child relationship, music teacher, fishing, deaf, massachusetts, coming of age, remake, singing, ...

Persepolis (2007)

7.9 2.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Plot: puberty, civil war, parent child relationship, totalitarian regime, punk rock, bomb alarm, coming of age, orient, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Robin Williams

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Mark Rasmussen

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Stan Wilson

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Valerie Velardi

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

7.9 267 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Story: A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

Plot: comedian, biography, hollywood, archive footage, struggling actor, mental health, hollywood star, woman director, ...