30 films · 30 films · 30 distinct perspectives
Women Filmmakers
Thirty landmark works directed or co-directed by women, spanning popular cinema, global modernism, documentary, animation, and formal experiment.
Thirty works directed or co-directed by women offer different ways into the canon. The selection spans narrative cinema, documentary, animation, and formal experiment. These are the films in GCML’s existing curated route, presented in Master Rank order.
Films in this collection
- The Matrix (1999)
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski · USA · 136 min
Master Rank #25 · GCML Total 9.42
- City of God (2002)
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund · Brazil · 130 min
Master Rank #37 · GCML Total 9.36
- Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi · France / Iran · 95 min
Master Rank #176 · GCML Total 9.02
- A Silent Voice (2016)
Naoko Yamada · Japan · 130 min
Master Rank #210 · GCML Total 8.96
- Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Justine Triet · France · 151 min
Master Rank #224 · GCML Total 8.92
- Capernaum (2018)
Nadine Labaki · Lebanon · 126 min
Master Rank #262 · GCML Total 8.84
- Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Agnès Varda · France · 90 min
Master Rank #333 · GCML Total 8.72
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)
Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz · Israel · 115 min
Master Rank #336 · GCML Total 8.72
- Mustang (2015)
Deniz Gamze Ergüven · Turkey / France · 97 min
Master Rank #346 · GCML Total 8.70
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Céline Sciamma · France · 122 min
Master Rank #361 · GCML Total 8.68
- Wadjda (2012)
Haifaa Al-Mansour · Saudi Arabia · 98 min
Master Rank #389 · GCML Total 8.66
- Honeyland (2019)
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov · North Macedonia · 89 min
Master Rank #433 · GCML Total 8.58
- The House Is Black (1963)
Forugh Farrokhzad · Iran · 20 min
Master Rank #457 · GCML Total 8.50
- The Piano (1993)
Jane Campion · New Zealand / Australia / France · 121 min
Master Rank #476 · GCML Total 8.44
- Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) (2018)
Alice Rohrwacher · Italy · 128 min
Master Rank #481 · GCML Total 8.44
- Daisies (1966)
Věra Chytilová · Czechoslovakia · 74 min
Master Rank #496 · GCML Total 8.40
- The Silences of the Palace (1994)
Moufida Tlatli · Tunisia · 116 min
Master Rank #515 · GCML Total 8.36
- Beau Travail (1999)
Claire Denis · France · 90 min
Master Rank #530 · GCML Total 8.30
- The Ascent (1977)
Larisa Shepitko · USSR · 111 min
Master Rank #549 · GCML Total 8.24
- Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Julie Dash · USA · 112 min
Master Rank #618 · GCML Total 7.80
- Wanda (1970)
Barbara Loden · USA · 102 min
Master Rank #633 · GCML Total 7.66
- Orlando (1992)
Sally Potter · UK / Russia / Italy / France / Netherlands · 93 min
Master Rank #634 · GCML Total 7.66
- Sambizanga (1972)
Sarah Maldoror · Angola / France · 102 min
Master Rank #638 · GCML Total 7.64
- One Way or Another (1977)
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Sara Gómez, Julio García Espinosa, Thomas González Pérez · Cuba · 78 min
Master Rank #652 · GCML Total 7.52
- La Ciénaga (2001)
Lucrecia Martel · Argentina · 103 min
Master Rank #655 · GCML Total 7.48
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid · USA · 14 min
Master Rank #659 · GCML Total 7.40
- Paris Is Burning (1990)
Jennie Livingston · USA · 71 min
Master Rank #660 · GCML Total 7.40
- Morvern Callar (2002)
Lynne Ramsay · UK · 97 min
Master Rank #694 · GCML Total 6.82
- News from Home (1976)
Chantal Akerman · Belgium / France · 85 min
Master Rank #696 · GCML Total 6.80
- India Song (1975)
Marguerite Duras · France · 120 min
Master Rank #705 · GCML Total 6.48