List of films about women's issues

This is a list of films about women's issues.

Films about women's issues

Title	Year	Director(s)	Topic(s)	Summary
Agora	2009	Alejandro Amenábar	History
Bread and Roses	2000	Ken Loach	Labour rights
Buddha Collapsed out of Shame	2007	Hana Makhmalbaf	Education
De tu ventana a la mía	2011	Paula Ortiz
El patio de mi cárcel	2008	Belén Macías	Women in prison
Erin Brockovich	2000	Steven Soderbergh	Biography Labour rights
Katmandu	2011	Icíar Bollaín
Hula Girls	2006	Lee Sang-il
I, the Worst of All	1990	María Luisa Bemberg	Biography
Iron Jawed Angels	2004	Katja von Garnier	Right to vote
Jane Eyre	2011	Cary Fukunaga
Las 13 rosas	2007	Emilio Martinez-Lazaro	Women in prison
Libertarias	1996	Vicente Aranda	Women in war
Made in L.A.	2007	Almudena Carracedo	Labour rights
Mataharis	2007	Icíar Bollaín
Mona Lisa Smile	2003	Mike Newell
Moolaadé	2004	Ousmane Sembène	Female genital mutilation
Ni dios, ni patrón, ni marido	2010	Laura Mañá	Labour rights
North Country	2005	Niki Caro	Labour rights
Persepolis	2007	Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud
Pray the Devil Back to Hell	2008	Gini Reticker
Rabbit-Proof Fence	2002	Phillip Noyce	Slavery
Shinaakht	2018	Pragyesh Singh at IMDb	Female genital mutilation
Sylvia	2003	Christine Jeffs	Biography
Take My Eyes	2003	Icíar Bollaín	Domestic violence
The Circle	2000	Jafar Panahi
The Color Purple	1985	Steven Spielberg
The Flowers of War	2011	Zhang Yimou
The Help	2011	Tate Taylor
The Hours	2002	Stephen Daldry
The Sleeping Voice	2011	Benito Zambrano	Women in prison
The Source	2011	Radu Mihăileanu
The Stoning of Soraya M.	2008	Cyrus Nowrasteh
Thelma & Louise	1991	Ridley Scott	Rape
Vera Drake	2004	Mike Leigh	Abortion
Violeta Went to Heaven	2001	Andrés Wood
War Witch	2012	Kim Nguyen	Women in war
Water	2005	Deepa Mehta	Widowhood
Where Do We Go Now?	2011	Nadine Labaki
Women of '69, Unboxed	2014	Peter Barton	Marriage, careers

Directors

Some directors that cover this topic in their films:

• Icíar Bollaín

See also

• Women's cinema
• Women's rights