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- DirectorPaul VecchialiStarsHélène SurgèreSonia SaviangeHuguette ForgeThe fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. In the end, their struggles are eased when the widow of a man they had both been married to gives them a small legacy.
- StarsTilda SwintonAdjoa AndohJane FondaA documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
- DirectorCharles L. GaskillStarsHelen GardnerPearl SindelarMiss FieldingThe fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
- DirectorFranz EcksteinStarsAsta NielsenPaul MorganFrida RichardHedda lives a bourgeois existence riddled with complacency and hypocrisy. She decides to break out of this dullness at all costs.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsFern AndraHans Heinrich von TwardowskiErnst GronauGenuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAlex AllinLucien BatailleGenica AthanasiouObsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsGermaine DermozMadeleine GuittyJean d'YdAn unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsRaymond DubreuilEmma GyntRobert MirfeuilTired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAndré NoxDenise LorysLouis VonellyA young woman doctor is so committed to finding a cure for tuberculosis that her husband, feeling neglected, abandons her.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsMusidoraÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueAn intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsAndré RoanneMusidoraKitty HottA parody of the serial thrillers popularized in the US with Pearl White and Exploits of Elaine, in France with Les Vampires: Hero and assistant rescue girl from sinister gang.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéMusidoraRené PoyenA twelve-part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsJean AyméÉdouard MathéMarcel Lévesque'Les Vampires' Episode Four 'The Spectre'
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsJean AyméÉdouard MathéMarcel Lévesque'Les Vampires' episode five, 'The Corpse's Escape'
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsJean AyméÉdouard MathéMarcel Lévesque'Les vampires' Episode Six 'The Eyes that Mesmerise'
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsLouis LeubasÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueAfter Phil Guard and Normandin capture two Vampires, Irma Vep and Moreno, the latter is guillotined and the woman is condemned to life imprisonment. The authorities as well as Philip, good reporter that he was, were lulled into security, thinking the Vampires were now powerless. They did not even know about Satanas, who was now leader of the band. Before her incarceration for life, Irma Vep is sent by the authorities to Algeria to testify regarding a crime committed there. Before leaving the detention home to board the vessel, she receives comforting information from a priest. The man is really Satanas in disguise. Satanas tells her that once on shipboard she must feign illness and be sent to the infirmary near the stern of the vessel, with his wonderful electric gun Satanas will destroy the ship, the projectile striking near the bow. Thus Irma will have a chance to regain her liberty. Even if she dies, that will be better than a life spent in prison. The ship is destroyed and Irma Vep is saved. She does not find Satanas, being afraid to disclose her identity in Algeria. She works her way back to Paris, whither Satanas has also returned. The head of the Vampires plans to destroy Philip Guard. The reporter is bound and gagged in his room and left to wait for the explosion of a bomb which will destroy him and those dear to him. Fortunately Normandin arrives, hears the clock-work tick of the infernal machine, and throws it into the garden just in time to save Philip. Satanas is living as a wealthy man in a new apartment, but the faithful Normandin penetrates his disguise and finds one of the shells for the electric gun. Normandin is accompanied by his son who enters the apartment upon a pretext. When he thinks he is alone he admits his father. Normandin hides in a chest, a fact known to Satanas, who has been watching through a mask on the wall, which is really a peep-hole from another room. The boy and Satanas struggle, after the former sees the chest locked and fears that his father is to be smothered. The fight is going in favor of the Vampire, despite his young adversary's revolver, when the door is broken and Philip and the police enter. Satanas is overcome and Normandin is released. He is suffering from a slight wound. His own son has shot him, grazing his big nose! The Vampires hold a meeting to discuss the capture of their chief. Irma Vep appears for the first time after her return and is loudly welcomed by the band. Venenos, the "man of poisons," takes from his pocket directions Satanas left with him in case he was captured. The request is for a certain letter to be smuggled to him in prison. This is done. Satanas chews the letter into a pulp and drops dead. The paper has been steeped in a deadly poison.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsLouis LeubasÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueSatanas, disguised as bishop goes to visit Irma Vep in prison to announce its issuance. The ship that takes Irma is cast in prison by Satanas. Irma Vep returns to Paris. Captured in turn Satanas commits suicide in prison.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsFrédéric MorissÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueSatanas, having committed suicide in prison, Venenos becomes the head of the Vampires. He learns that Philip is engaged to be married and orders Irma Vep to take an apartment in the same building and watch the girl. Irma learns that the betrothal dinner is soon to be celebrated. Venenos is advised and tells the caterer that the dinner has been postponed one day. The Vampires impersonate the caterer and his assistants. They poison the wine, and the janitor, who has been given some, drinks it and dies. His wife rushes into the banquet just in time to save the guests, who are about to drink to Philip and the girl. The Vampires switch off the lights and escape. Philip writes in code to his fiancée and tells her to go with her mother to a villa at Chailly. Irma Vep, accompanied by her maid, lies in wait for the limousine. It arrives with a wardrobe trunk strapped upright on the running board. Irma is at work spraying the interior of the automobile with a powerful anesthetic when Normandin steps out of the trunk. The women overpower him and Irma hides in the trunk. On arrival at Chailly, Irma telephones to Venenos, and is afterward captured by Philip Guard, who is soon joined by Normandin, who has escaped from the Vampires. Venenos rescues Irma and the pair escape in an automobile and escapes as the men continue after Venenos, who jumps from a bridge to a moving train and elude Philip and Normandin.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsFrédéric MorissÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueThe Vampires do not give up their attempts on the life of Philip Guard even after he is married. The wife of the janitor who was accidentally poisoned by wine meant for Philip's wedding is now in Philip's employ. She is anxious to avenge her husband's death, and consults a fortune teller. The fortune teller is a Vampire. By hypnotizing her visitor, the woman influences her to open the door of Philip's home to the Vampires. Normandin has fallen in love with Augustine, and has followed her to the fortune teller. She will not reveal the reason for her visit and he watches her day and night. It is this vigilance which finally rewards him by finding the Vampires descend on Philip's home. The Vampires are put to flight when they are discovered trying to asphyxiate Philip and his wife. While Philip and Normandin go for the police, Augustine and Jane, Philip's wife, are kidnapped and carried to a house in the suburbs. Normandin, pursuing the automobile, fires a shot that punctures the lubricating oil tank. This drips, leaving a trail which Normandin follows slowly but successfully on a bicycle. Philip and Normandin find that Jane and Augustine are kept prisoners in a cellar of the house. Philip leaves his revolver with his wife while he and Normandin go for the police. The official raiding party arrives while the marriage of Irma Vep and Venenos is being celebrated. Every exit is watched, and the police break in upon the Vampires. All are killed or captured, but a count shows that Irma Vep is missing. She has secured a revolver dropped by a policeman and hurried to the cellar to be revenged upon Jane and Augustine for the death of her companions. Jane, however, defends herself by shooting Irma, who drops at the feet of Normandin and Philip who have also hurried to the cellar. Thus the last Vampire is accounted for, and Philip has freed France of the terrible criminal menace. Normandin marries Augustine, and the two pair live happily ever after.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéJean DevaldePrologue: Morales and Monti plot to inherit the fortune of Favreaux the banker; Rochefontaine plans to marry the banker's daughter Jacqueline so that he can pay off his debts; Kerjean, recently released from prison, requests Favreaux's help in finding his son; Judex warns Favreaux to repent for his crimes before he is punished; Favreaux hires the private investigator Cocantin to protect him from Judex. Episode 1: Devastated by the realization that her father was corrupt, Jacqueline bequeaths her father's fortune to charity, leaves her son in the care of friends, and moves to Neuilly to look for work; Judex and his brother continue to carry out their plan in their secret lair; Cesar plots a way to make Jacqueline fall in love with him.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéJean DevaldeFavreaux is sentenced to life imprisonment by Judex; Jean runs away with the Licorice Kid in search of his mother; Jacqueline meets with Monti, who has a proposition for her.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorJuliette ClarensRené CrestéJudex and his brother rush to save Jacqueline from Monti and Morales; Cesar confesses his scheme to his sister and his father; the Licorice Kid is adopted; Judex continues to observe Favreaux; Judex's brother picks up Kerjean from the clinic.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéJean DevaldeDiscovering that Favraux's body is not in its grave, and deducing that he is in Judex's captivity, Monti and Morales hire Cocantin to find them; Monti and Morales also concoct a plan to get Jacqueline out of the way, but Morales begins to get cold feet; Kerjean helps Judex and his brother guard Favraux.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéJean DevaldeAs Kerjean explores the grounds of his old mill, he discovers Monti and Morales trying to dispose of Jacqueline, who they have once again abducted; Judex rushes to the rescue; Morales reveals something startling to Kerjean.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéJean DevaldeMarcel LévesqueDiana Monti involves Cocantin and Rochefontaine in her plot to unmask Judex, and it's up to Roger and the Licorice Kid to stop them.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéYvonne DarioIn flashback, Favraux is seen ruining the Tremeuse family. In modern day, Judex has second thoughts about killing Favraux due to his love for Jacqueline, much to his mother's dismay.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéYvonne DarioJean DevaldeJudex's mom demands to see Favraux, but she takes pity on him when she sees that he has gone mad. Morales gets drawn back in by Diana Monti.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéJean DevaldeJudex's mom and Roger move Jacqueline, Jean, and the Licorice Kid to a Mediterranean village for protection, and Judex moves nearby to keep watch. However, Diana Monti and Morales soon discover where they are hiding when they follow Cocantin, who is invited to the village to visit.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéYvonne DarioFavraux sends a letter to Jacqueline asking her to escape with him. Under the guise of Vallieres, Judex persuades Jacqueline to let him go instead to make sure it's not a trap.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéJean DevaldeJudex meets with Favraux, Diana Monti, and Morales to negotiate bringing Favraux to meet his daughter. Meanwhile, Cocantin's fiancee Daisy wants a closer look at what's happening aboard the ship.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsYvette AndréyorRené CrestéYvonne DarioJudex returns with Favraux, who must now make amends with his daughter and those he has wronged.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsJean AyméÉdouard MathéMarcel LévesqueEpisode Three of 'Les vampires', 'The Red Cryptogram'
- DirectorJacques LasseyneMusidoraJosé Sobrado de OnegaStarsAntonio CañeroSimone CynthiaMusidoraA famous bullfighter falls in love with the maid of a hostel and also with a foreigner woman who visits Spain and who will provoke the servant's jealousy. Musidora, the most mythical vampire and muse of surrealism, co-directs and plays the two protagonists roles of this film.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsÈve FrancisJaque CatelainMarcelle PradotSibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her son's biological father and one of the richest men in town. After being rejected, Sibilla vows to save her son's life by any means necessary - even at the cost of her own life.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsLéon MathotGina ManèsEdmond Van DaëleMarie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. Marie has a baby who falls ill and as time goes on Jean and a crippled neighbor try to help the child. Paul nearly causes the death of the child whilst in a drunken stupor and in a final struggle that occurs, the crippled woman seizes Paul's gun and shoots him dead.
- DirectorJean Benoît-LévyMarie EpsteinStarsMadeleine RenaudAlice TissotPaulette ÉlambertWhen her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving attention, and soon she's their favorite. An especially needy child is Marie, a prostitute's daughter. Rose and she bond, and Marie is jealous of all attentions paid Rose, especially those of Dr. Libois, the school's physician. When Rose inadvertently guides the children through the educational experiment of a visiting scholar, and then discloses she has a college degree and is working beneath her station, the principal wants to fire her. Is there any way she can stay? And what will happen to Marie?
- DirectorJean Benoît-LévyMarie EpsteinStarsSimone BerriauMoulay IbrahimAisha FadahThe wife of a French doctor tries to help him win over the peoples of an African colony.
- DirectorAimée NavarraStarsCoronaAbbé De MoorViviane Dhollain
- DirectorDavid HartfordStarsNell ShipmanCharles ArlingWheeler OakmanA woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.
- DirectorElvira NotariStarsClara BoniEduardo NotariE. Pensa
- DirectorNell ShipmanBert Van TuyleStarsNell ShipmanHugh ThompsonAlfred AllenA young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
- DirectorPaulette McDonaghStarsMarie LorraineArthur GreenawayJohn FaulknerThe daughter of the head of a criminal gang falls in love with the son of her father's most bitter enemy.
- DirectorAimée NavarraStarsPaul AzaïsPierre Brasseur
- DirectorJoe KingCleo MadisonStarsCleo MadisonAdele FarringtonWilliam V. MongRethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with his unscrupulous son Harry. After a year she breaks up with him to marry his kind brother Walter, and so continues to use Burke funds to aid Burke employees. Walter truly loves Rethna, but when he finds out that she married him only for his money, he leaves her. Then, while she is at the factory pleading with Henry for better conditions, a fire breaks out. Walter rescues Rethna from the flames, and during her convalescence she discovers that she really does love him. She and Walter reconcile, and then, as a result of the fire, Henry decides to spare no expense in improving factory conditions.
- DirectorMarian E. WongStarsViolet WongHarvey Soo HooMarian E. WongThe members of a Chinese family living in the US have a curse put upon them for becoming too "westernized".
- DirectorWillis RobardsStarsDorothy DavenportWillis RobardsMaclyn KingA melodrama about a woman governor whose husband is accused and convicted of a bombing and the dilemma she has to struggle with --- whether to let the law take its course and the pressures put on her by family, friends and political pundits.
- DirectorCharles BryantAlla NazimovaStarsAlla NazimovaNigel De BrulierMitchell LewisSalome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsAlla NazimovaMilton SillsClaude GillingwaterJohn Morton, director of the fashionable parish of St. Andrews, resigns his wealthy charge to open a mission in the Limehouse district of London. His uncle, dying, leaves penniless his mistress, Mary Carlson, who determines to go to London and land the millions which she feels should have been hers through marriage to Morton. In this enterprise she succeeds with the ease of the practiced siren, but she tires of the life when she finds that Morton is sincere in his determination to put all of his money into welfare work. A night out with Morton's secretary brings matters to a crux, but he forgives her escapades, only to discover immediately after her identity as his uncle's enslaver. The second blow is too much for him. He lets her go her way. Later he realizes his powerful love for her. He fails in his mission since his hearers feel there is too much preaching and too little personal gain, and they are rushing him into the river when he is rescued by the police. He signs away the last of his money, believing that it has cost him his influence with his people, but he retains his ministry and eventually Mary comes back. She is miraculously revived after being declared dead, and the story ends on this dramatic moment.
- DirectorRay C. SmallwoodStarsAlla NazimovaRudolph ValentinoRex CherrymanA courtesan and an idealistic young man fall in love, only for her to give up the relationship at his status-conscious father's request.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsTheodore RobertsCharles de RochefortEstelle TaylorAfter hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.
- DirectorNell ShipmanBert Van TuyleStarsNell ShipmanBert Van TuyleL.M. WellsA young woman visiting Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the country well. But when Bill cannot find a horse, his only available form of transportation is his roadster. Nevertheless, he is determined to come to her rescue, even if it means trying to drive the car across miles of rocky, broken terrain.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- DirectorNell ShipmanBert Van TuyleStarsNell ShipmanEdmund BurnsAl W. FilsonJ. Randall Carslake, a millionaire airplane manufacturer, his daughter, Marion, and her fiancé are on a hunting expedition in Canada. There they meet Neeka, a half-breed Native American, who rescues Carslake after her grandfather accuses the millionaire of betraying the girl's mother. Unaware that Neeka is actually his daughter, Carslake adopts the girl and takes her to California. Carslake is entered in a trans-Pacific flying race against Otto Kraus, who recruits Neeka as an ally after she and Marion quarrel over social blunders. Kraus obtains the secret of a "solidified gasoline," which Carslake himself has obtained fraudulently from a demented inventor. The inventor's consciousness returns during a hangar fire, and Neeka, realizing she has been duped, goes to his rescue. Carslake's pilot, Owen Glendon, is injured in fire, so Neeka volunteers the services of her sweetheart, blinded French aviator Pierre LeMort, for whom she will act as his eyes. Over the Pacific Ocean, Kraus attempts to ram the Carslake airplane, causing his own to crash. Neeka pursues the villain and he drowns during the ensuing fight.
- DirectorPaulette McDonaghStarsMarie LorrainePaul LonguetGaston MervaleCherry Carson is a rich girl who falls in love with a gentleman she meets by chance on a train trip. Little does she know that he is the son of her father's greatest enemy, and their love is doomed to suffer.
- DirectorPaulette McDonaghP.J. RamsterStarsMarie LorraineWilliam CarterRobert PurdieBarry Manton is a rich heir who is constantly undermined by his father, who sees him as a gadabout. He even goes to the extent of paying his girlfriend to leave him. It seems he must remain a bachelor if he is to receive his inheritance. He meets Lola, a beautiful and thoughtful woman who enriches his life and makes him think about his actions. They soon marry. Meanwhile, Barry's father feels remorse for banishing his son, and invites him back into his life. Lola is fearful of meeting Barry's father for the first time, and convinced that Barry will not get his rightful inheritance, selflessly leaves him. Years later, they meet again in a hospital where Lola is a nurse - in order to support Peter, the child Barry never knew they had.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsTilda SwintonBilly ZaneQuentin CrispAfter Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTippi HedrenSean ConneryMartin GabelMark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- DirectorYvonne RainerStarsDempster LeechShirley SofferJohn ErdmanRainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliche and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsDelphine SeyrigJan DecorteHenri StorckA lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.
- DirectorLaura MulveyPeter WollenStarsDinah StabbMerdelle JordineRhiannon TiseIn this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsColette LaffontRose EnglishTony GaconWhat happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boh?me? In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.
- DirectorYvonne RainerStarsJames BarthJohn ErdmanEpp KotkasA stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, "Lives of Performers" examines the dilemma of a man who can't choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsJulie ChristieColette LaffontHilary WestlakeAn avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.
- DirectorKing VidorOtto BrowerWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenGregory PeckBeautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsDorothy McGuireGeorge BrentEthel BarrymoreIn 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsHeather LangenkampJohnny DeppRobert EnglundTeenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichCary GrantHerbert MarshallA cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichLionel AtwillEdward Everett HortonA young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGary CooperMarlene DietrichAdolphe MenjouA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsAurore ClémentHelmut GriemMagali NoëlAnna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJuliet BertoDominique LabourierBulle OgierA mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsRosanna ArquetteMadonnaAidan QuinnA bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
- DirectorSheila McLaughlinStarsEd BowesSheila DabneyJohn ErdmanJo and Agatha are lovers. Both have careers: the Brasilian-born Agatha is an attorney; Jo is a filmmaker, working hard to complete the shooting of a movie called, "Catalina." Agatha may be seeing things: she's jealous, convinced Jo is having an affair with a man and follows her. But is it Jo she's following, or someone who looks like her? Jo is either too exhausted to pay much attention to Agatha or she's cleverly hiding her affair. We see some of "Catalina," with overtones of melodrama, and sometimes, when Agatha watches the shooting or looks at rushes with Jo, Agatha sees Jo in scenes of sex or violence instead of the lead actress. Can the two of them sort this out?
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsLinda GriffithsJane HallarenJon DeVriesA happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
- DirectorLeontine SaganCarl FroelichStarsDorothea WieckHertha ThieleEmilia UndaAt an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSusan SarandonGeena DavisHarvey KeitelTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.
- DirectorRobert TowneStarsMariel HemingwayScott GlennPatrice DonnellyThe intertwined lives and loves of three highly ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantBrian AherneWhen her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertIan KeithQueen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsJane FondaVanessa RedgraveJason RobardsAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
- DirectorClaudia WeillStarsMelanie MayronEli WallachAdam CohenA photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsKathy BatesJessica TandyMary Stuart MastersonEvelyn, an ordinary housewife, visits a nursing home and befriends the old lady Ninny. Together, they bond over stories from the past about two intrepid women of Whistle Stop Cafe.
- DirectorJean GenetStarsBravoJean GenetJavaTwo prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- DirectorElfi MikeschMonika TreutStarsMechthild GroßmannUdo KierSheila McLaughlinWanda ist von Berufs wegen grausam. Ihre Spezialitaet: das Erfinden von Fallen fuer ihre Liebhaber/innen. Gregor, der romantische Schwaermer, wird aus seinem Traum gerissen. Justine, die naive Unschuld aus Uebersee, muss lernen, dass auch die Leidenschaft eine Illusion ist. Herr Maehrsch, ein Journalist, will ein Interview mit Wanda und lernt dabei etwas ueber seine verborgenen Wunesche. Nur Caren weiss, worum es geht. Deshalb spielt sie auch bald keine Rolle mehr. (aus dem Prorammheft Max-Ophuels-Preis 1995) "Aufregenderes, subversiveres, seltsameres Kino wird man so bald bei uns nicht mehr zu sehen bekommen." (H.C. Blumenberg, die Zeit)
- DirectorTabea BlumenscheinUlrike OttingerStarsTabea BlumenscheinMonika von CubeRoswitha JanzSeveral women, all bored with their menial lives, join a lesbian pirate ship and set sail on a kooky adventure.
- DirectorUlrike OttingerStarsDelphine SeyrigIrm HermannGillian ScaliciA group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
- DirectorDonna DeitchStarsHelen ShaverPatricia CharbonneauAudra LindleyWhile waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsBob HoskinsCathy TysonMichael CaineA man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsStephen ReaJaye DavidsonForest WhitakerA British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.