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Mary Harron • Starring: Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller
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Penny Marshall • Starring: Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, Jared Rushton
Comedy • Coming-of-Age • Fantasy Comedy
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Sofia Coppola • Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
4
Penelope Spheeris • Starring: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe
Absurd Comedy • Based-on-Television • Buddy Film
5
Chantal Akerman • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Female-Directed Film
6
Debra Granik • Starring: Kevin Breznahan, John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence
Detective Film • Drama • Family Drama
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Barbara Kopple • Starring: John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough
Americana • Biography • Documentary
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Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid • Starring: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Female-Directed Film
9
Lone Scherfig • Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Olivia Williams
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Larisa Shepitko • Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev
Anti-War Film • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Lotte Reiniger
Adventure • Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Ava DuVernay • Starring: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Jennifer Kent • Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall
Female-Directed Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
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Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Dystopian Film • Female-Directed Film
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Andrea Arnold • Starring: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
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Antonia Bird • Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies
Black Comedy • Cannibal Film • Costume Horror
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Kimberly Peirce • Starring: Matt McGrath, Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Amy Heckerling • Starring: Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
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Miranda July • Starring: Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Female-Directed Film
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Agnès Varda • Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère
Drama • Feminist Film • Female-Directed Film
21
Tamra Davis • Starring: Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel
Comedy • Farce • Female-Directed Film
22
Claire Denis • Starring: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Niki Caro • Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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Sally Potter • Starring: Tilda Swinton, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Drama
25
Sarah Polley • Starring: Andrew Church, Peter Evans, Justin Goodhand
Biography • Culture and Society • Docudrama
26
Mary Lambert • Starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Female-Directed Film • Horror
27
Kelly Reichardt • Starring: Michelle Williams, Lucy, Wally Dalton
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Psychological Drama
28
Ida Lupino • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
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Martha Coolidge • Starring: Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Coming-of-Age
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Nancy Savoca • Starring: Richard Panebianco, Mitchell Whitfield, Lili Taylor
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Lina Wertmüller • Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Jane Campion • Starring: Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider
Costume Romance • Drama • Period Film
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Jodie Foster • Starring: Holly Hunter, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
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Lynne Ramsay • Starring: Kathleen McDermott, Samantha Morton, Paul Popplewell
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Feminist Film
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Leni Riefenstahl • Starring: Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Culture and Society • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Céline Sciamma • Starring: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson
Childhood Drama • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Drama
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Barbara Loden • Starring: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes
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Kasi Lemmons • Starring: Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield
Childhood Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
39
Nicole Holofcener • Starring: Catherine Keener, Raven Goodwin, Jake Gyllenhaal
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Susan Seidelman • Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
Comedy Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Gillian Armstrong • Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes
Australian New Wave • Biopic • Costume Romance
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Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber • Starring: Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Short Film
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Forugh Farrokhzad • Starring: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Culture and Society • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Claudia Weill • Starring: Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach
45
Alice Guy • Starring: Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne
Addiction Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Haifaa Al-Mansour • Starring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
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Catherine Breillat • Starring: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo
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Germaine Dulac • Starring: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille
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Julie Dash • Starring: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao
Drama • Family Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Clio Barnard • Starring: Manjinder Virk, Neil Dudgeon, Robert Emms
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biography • Documentary
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