The Girl with the Needle
Dir. Magnus von Horn
Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…
How to Have Sex
Dir. Molly Manning Walker
While named as a “how-to”, How to Have Sex is less of an instruction manual, and more of a collection…
Holy Spider
Dir. Ali Abbasi
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
Woman at War
Dir. Benedikt Erlingsson
A calm choir leader lives a secret life as eco-warrior in this visually stunning and intelligent story about our complex…
Beanpole
Dir. Kantemir Balagov
This heartbreaking Russian drama takes place in Leningrad six months after the end of the war. A boy is asked…
Child's Pose
Dir. Călin Peter Netzer
With drastic consequences and the existence of the law, how do the rich get away with anything? Child’s Pose doesn’t…
Lady Macbeth
Dir. William Oldroyd
Florence Pugh broke through with her powerhouse performance here as Katherine, a young woman who is “sold” into a coldly…
Read My Lips
Dir. Jacques Audiard
In my own wished-for parallel universe, French actors Vincent Cassell and Emanuelle Devos are voted the sexiest actors alive. I…
Frantz
Dir. François Ozon
It’s always fun to watch something that makes you second guess each move, that shifts seamlessly from one thing to…
The Son's Room
Dir. Nanni Moretti
The Son’s Room is about grief, but there’s something refreshing about the way it depicts how the family navigates it,…
Human Capital
Dir. Paolo Virzì
Human Capital is a rich and absorbing tale of two families tied together by love, money and a hit-and-run accident.…
Another Year
Dir. Mike Leigh
This is a very nice movie about a lovely older couple named Tom and Gerri. It follows their lives for…
Happy-Go-Lucky
Dir. Mike Leigh
Happy-Go-Lucky is a Mike Leigh feel-good movie tells the story of Poppy, a North London teacher, whose story we follow…
Broken Embraces
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Is there any other filmmaker more suited to the melodrama than Pedro Almodóvar? Broken Embraces holds many of the themes…
Black Book
Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Of course, with wartime spy romances, it’s expected to have conflicted desire, twisty betrayals, and the internal war between personal…
Compartment No. 6
Dir. Juho Kuosmanen
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of…
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
Dir. Female director & Jasmila Žbanić
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Mostly Martha
Dir. Sandra Nettelbeck
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has…
Lorna’s Silence
Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is…
Lemon Tree
Dir. Eran Riklis
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank’s occupied territory. The Israeli…
Promising Young Woman
Dir. Emerald Fennell & Female director
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Under the Sand
Dir. François Ozon
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his…
Nothing Personal
Dir. Female director & Urszula Antoniak
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal…
