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Women Centric Films Currently Playing

  • The Huntsman Winter’s War
  • The Meddler — Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria
  • Nina — Written and Directed by Cynthia Mort
  • Sworn Virgin — Directed by Laura Bispuri; Written by Laura Bispuri and Francesca Manieri
  • Eva Hesse (Documentary) — Directed by Marcie Begleiter
  • Queen Mimi (Documentary)
  • Sky — Directed by Fabienne Berthaud; Co-Written by Fabienne Berthaud and Lucy Allwood
  • Hostile Border — Co-Directed and Written by Kaitlin McLaughlin
  • Wedding Doll
  • The Boss — Co-Written by Melissa McCarthy
  • Look At Us Now, Mother! (Documentary) — Written Directed by Gayle Kirschenbaum
  • One More Time
  • No Home Movie (Documentary) — Written and Directed by Chantal Akerman
  • Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — Written and Directed by Chantal Akerman
  • Sold
  • God’s Not Dead 2
  • Darling
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 — Written by Nia Vardalos
  • H. — Co-Written and Co-Directed by Rania Attieh
  • April and the Extraordinary World
  • Miracles from Heaven — Directed by Patricia Riggen
  • The Divergent Series: Allegiant
  • Krisha
  • The Bronze — Co-Written by Melissa Rauch
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • Eye in the Sky
  • Hello, My Name is Doris — Co-Written by Laura Terruso
  • Marguerite
  • Lolo — Directed by Julie Delpy; Written by July Deply and Eugenie Grandval
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • Zootopia
  • Cemetery of Splendour
  • The Other Side of the Door
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
  • The Witch
  • How to Be Single — Co-Written by Dana Fox and Abby Kohn
  • The 5th Wave — Co-Written by Susannah Grant
  • 45 Years
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • The Lady in the Van
  • Brooklyn

Women Directed Films Currently Playing

  • Elvis & Nixon — Directed by Liza Johnson; Co-Written by Hanala Sagal
  • The Adderall Diaries — Written and Directed by Pamela Romanowsky
  • Echo Park — Directed by Amanda Marsalis; Written by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
  • Rio, I Love You — Co-Directed by Nadine Labaki; Co-Written by Nadine Labaki and Elena Soarez
  • The Syndrome (Documentary) — Directed by Meryl Goldsmith; Written by Meryl Goldsmith and Susan Goldsmith
  • The Invitation — Directed by Karyn Kusama
  • Be Here Now (Documentary) — Directed by Lilbet Foster
  • Standing Tall — Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot; Written by Emmanuelle Bercot and Marcia Romano
  • Catching the Sun (Documentary) — Directed by Shalini Kantayya
  • Sweet Bean — Written and Directed by Naomi Kawase
  • City of Gold (Documentary) — Directed by Laura Gabbert
  • Kung Fu Panda 3 — Co-Directed by Jennifer Yuh

Women Written Films Currently Playing

  • Barbershop: The Next Cut — Co-Written by Tracy Oliver
  • My Golden Days — Co-Written by Julie Peyr
  • The Young Messiah — Co-Written by Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh
  • London Has Fallen — Co-Written by Katrin Benedikt
  • Race — Co-Written by Anna Waterhouse
  • Room — Written by Emma Donoghue

Upcoming Women Centric Films

  • Mother’s Day — Co-Written by Lily Hollander and Anya Kochoff — April 29
  • The American Side — Co-Written and Directed by Jenna Ricker — April 29
  • Pail Road — Co-Written by Victoria Arch — April 29
  • Viktoria — Written and Directed by Maya Vitkova — April 29
  • Dark Horse (Documentary) — Directed by Louise Osmond — May 6
  • Belladonna of Sadness — May 6
  • Sunset Song — May 13
  • Love & Friendship — May 13
  • Maggie’s Plan — Written and Directed by Rebecca Miller — May 20
  • Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass — Written by Linda Woolverton — May 27
  • L’Attesa (The Wait) — TBA Spring 2016
  • The Innocents — Written and Directed by Anne Fontaine — July TBA
  • Me Before You — Directed by Thea Sharrock — June 3
  • Finding Dory — June 17
  • Ghostbusters — Co-Written by Katie Dipplod — July 15
  • Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie — Directed by Mandie Fletcher; Written by Jennifer Saunders — July 22
  • Bridget Jones’s Baby — Directed by Sharon Maguire; Co-Written by Helen Fielding and Emma Thompson — September 16
  • Queen of Katwe — Directed by Mira Nair — September 23
  • The Girl on the Train — Written by Erin Cressida Wilson — October 7
  • Moana — November 23

Undated 2016 Releases

  • Beat-up Little Seagull — Co-Written by Darci Picoult — TBA 2016
  • American Honey — Directed by Andrea Arnold — TBA 2016
  • The Zookeeper’s Wife — Directed by Niki Caro; Written by Angela Workman — TBA 2016
  • Certain Women — Written and Directed by Kelly Reichardt — TBA 2016
  • The Neon Demon — Co-Written by Mary Laws and Polly Stenham — TBA 2016
  • Julieta — TBA 2016
  • Story of Your Life — starring Amy Adams — TBA 2016
  • The Unknown Girl — TBA 2016
  • Personal Shopper — starring Kristen Stewart — TBA 2016
  • Elle — starring Isabelle Huppert — TBA 2016

2017

  • Wonder Woman — Directed by Patty Jenkins — June 2
  • The Divergent Series: Ascendant — June 9
  • Pitch Perfect 3 — August 4

Upcoming Women Directed

  • 3rd Street Blackout — Co-Written and Co-Directed by Negin Farsad — April 29
  • Ratchet & Clank — Co-Directed by Jericca Cleland — April 29
  • A Beautiful Planet (Documentary) — Directed by Toni Myers — April 29
  • Money Monster — Directed by Jodie Foster — May 13
  • Chevalier — Co-Written and Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari — May 27
  • NUTS! (Documentary) — Directed by Penny Lane — June 22

Undated 2016 Women Directed

  • Chevalier — Directed and Co-Written by Athina Rachel Tsangari — TBA Spring 2016
  • Five Nights in Maine — Written and Directed by Maris Curran — Summer TBA
  • Viceroy’s House — Directed by Gurinder Chadha; Co-Written by Moira Buffini — TBA 2016
  • A United Kingdom — Directed by Amma Assante -TBA 2016
  • Embers — Directed and Co-Written by Claire Carre — TBA 2016
  • Zama — Written and Directed by Lucrecia Martel -TBA 2016

Upcoming Women Written

  • High-Rise — Written by Amy Jump — May 13
  • The BFG — Written by Melissa Mathison — July 1
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — Written by J.K. Rowling — November 18
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiars — Written by Jane Goldman — December 25

Undated 2016 Women Written

  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties — Co-Written by Philippa Goslett — TBA 2016

Future Women Directed

  • 6 Figures — Barbara Stepansky
  • A Fall From Grace — Jennifer Lynch
  • A Ghost Story — Jordan Scott
  • A Reliable Wife — Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • A Virgin Mary — Beth Schacter
  • Addicted — Rosemary Rodriguez
  • Alias Grace — Sarah Polley
  • All Quiet on the Western Front — Mimi Leder
  • The Archivist- Robin Wright, written by Ann Cherkis
  • Bathing Flo — Ellen Burstyn
  • The Bengali Detective — Mira Nair
  • Bombay Dreams — Directed by Deepa Mehta, Written by Sabrina Dhawan
  • Brain on Fire — Dakota Fanning
  • Buena Vista Social Club (doc) — Lucy Walker
  • The Emperor’s Children — Lake Bell
  • The End — Drew Barrymore
  • The Fugees — Audrey Wells
  • Heist Society — Drew Barrymore
  • How to Be Single — Drew Barrymore
  • Human Resources — Courtney Hunt
  • The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener
  • Late Bloomers — Julie Gavras
  • Legacy — Thea Sharrock
  • Marburg — Isabel Coixet
  • Martian Time Slip — Dee Rees
  • My Life in Orange — Lone Scherfig
  • Pictures at a Revolution (doc) — Marina Zenovich
  • Phoenix — Amy Redford
  • Rapt- Susanne Bier
  • The Rut- Karyn Kusama
  • Sammy — directed by Cherie Nowland; Written by Delia Ephron
  • Standing Tall — Catherine Deneuve — Emmanuelle Bercot
  • The Nightstalker — Written and Directed by Megan Griffiths
  • The Trials of Cate McCall — written and directed by Karen Moncrieff
  • Vivaldi — Patricia Riggen
  • The Boom Boom Room- Lian Lunson
  • The Fight Before Christmas — Anne Fletcher
  • Telling of the Shoes — written and to be directed by Amanda Goodwin
  • Then We Came to The End- Lynn Shelton
  • Their Finest Hour and a Half — Directed by Lone Scherfig
  • Unforgiving World — written by Nicole Holofcener, directed by Nanette Burstein
  • The Walls — Kimberly Peirce
  • What’s the Point — Lake Bell

Future Films By and About Women

  • 20th Century Women
  • 33 Liberty Lane
  • An Untamed State — Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood; Written by Gina Prince-Bythewood and Roxane Gay
  • A Place of Only Sky — Miranda Richardson
  • A Storm in the Stars — directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
  • A Thousand Guns — Vera Farmiga
  • A Quiet Passion — Cynthia Nixon
  • Alaska — directed by Sarah Polley
  • All the Bright Places
  • All We Had — Katie Holmes
  • Au Pairs — written by Alexa Junge
  • A Woman of No Importance
  • Alive & Kicking — produced by Mia Hamm
  • All is Not Forgotten
  • American Honey — directed by Andrea Arnold
  • Ashley’s War
  • Baby Maker — Olivia Munn
  • The Beautiful and the Damned — starring Keira Knightley
  • Beautiful Girl
  • Beautiful Ruins
  • The Bell Jar — Julia Stiles
  • Best Buds — Natalie Portman
  • Bitch Posse — directed by Catherine Hardwicke
  • Bobbie Sue — starring Cameron Diaz
  • Business Trip — written by Stacey Harman
  • Catherine, Called Birdy — written and directed by Lena Dunham
  • Callas — directed by Niki Caro
  • Cantinflas — written and directed by Gabriela Tagliavini
  • Captured — Isabelle Huppert
  • Carrie Pilby — Directed by Susan Johnson
  • Cassandra at the Wedding — written by Michelle Lipton
  • Castro’s Daughter
  • Class Act — Halle Berry
  • Clown Girl — written by Kristen Wiig
  • Daughter of the Queen of Sheeba
  • Daughter of Smoke and Bone
  • Deadlocked- Helen Mirren
  • Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
  • Divanation — Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton — Co-Written by Lisa Addario
  • Dreams of a Dying Heart- Hilary Swank
  • Earthbound — directed by Nicole Kassell
  • Elena’s Serenade — written by Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Emily the Strange — Chloe Moretz
  • Enchanted 2 — directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Jessie Nelson
  • The Engagements
  • Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
  • Factory Girls
  • Face Value — Rachel Weisz
  • Fallen
  • February
  • Five Men Who Broke My Heart — adapted by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
  • Florence of Arabia — Charlize Theron
  • Forest- Ellen Page — directed by Patricia Rozema
  • Four Saints
  • French Women Don’t Get Fat
  • From the Rough — Taraji P. Henson
  • The Girl Who Conned the Ivy League- written by Lorene Scafaria
  • Girl Soldier — Uma Thurman
  • Girls Like Us
  • Girls Just Want to Have Fun
  • Girls Night Out- Dakota Fanning
  • Golden Gate
  • Goodnight Moon
  • The Goree Girls — Jennifer Aniston
  • The Grandmother — directed by Anne Fontaine
  • The Greens Are Gone
  • The Hate U Give — Written by Audrey Wells
  • The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
  • Heaven & Earth — directed by Marleen Gorris
  • Hello Kitty
  • The Hero — directed by Antoinette Beumer
  • Heroine
  • The Hive
  • Honey Pot
  • How to Get Divorced by 30 — written by Sascha Rothchild
  • In a Strange City
  • In Search of Fellini — Co-Written by Nancy Cartwright
  • Invasion of Privacy
  • The Invisible X — directed by Karyn Kusama, Rachel Weisz
  • Is He The One- directed by Elizabeth Allen
  • Isabella Blow biopic
  • Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament
  • Jean of the Joneses — Written and Directed by Stella Meghie
  • Juliet
  • The Kid Table
  • Lady in the Locker Room
  • The Lady Who Went Too Far
  • Letters From Rosemary
  • Life After Life
  • Life Coach- Isla Fisher
  • Lioness — directed by Reed Morano
  • Little Bee- Nicole Kidman
  • Little Women — written by Olivia Milch
  • Lost in Austen
  • The Low Self Esteem of Lizzy Gillespie — written by Mindy Kaling
  • Luckiest Girl Alive
  • Luna — Rachel Weisz
  • Lunch Lady — Amy Poehler
  • Mame- Tilda Swinton
  • Maudie — Sally Hawkins — directed by Aisling Walsh
  • Mean Moms — Directed by Beth McCarthy Miller
  • Ms. Faux Pas
  • Muktar Mai biopic (doc)
  • Mulan — Zhang Ziyi
  • My Ex-Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me — written by Hilary Winston
  • My Fair Lady — Keira Knightley, written by Emma Thompson
  • My Mother The Cheerleader — Julia Roberts
  • My Name is Jody Williams
  • My Stroke of Insight
  • My Ten Best Days — Amy Adams
  • The No Game — Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden, directed by Sherry Hormann
  • Object of Beauty — Amy Adams
  • On Chesil Beach
  • The Other Woman
  • Our Wild Life — Nicole Kidman
  • Pale Blue Dot
  • Peggy Lee Biopic — Reese Witherspoon
  • Pharm Girl — Reese Witherspoon
  • The Pioneer Woman
  • The Poisoners — Emily Watson, Anna Friel, Lena Headley
  • Preacher’s Daughter — written and directed by Michelle Mower
  • Private Benjamin
  • Pumas — Jennifer Aniston
  • Pure Life- Vera Farmiga and Elle Fanning written by Melora Donoghue
  • The Queen of Kentucky — Katie Ford- writer
  • Rodham
  • Rule #1 — directed by Courtney Hunt
  • Satisfaction — Sharon Stone, Carice Van Houten, directed by Anya Camilleri
  • Scarpetta Franchise
  • The Secret Scripture
  • The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll — Directed by Gia Coppola
  • Seeker
  • See You in Valhalla — Sarah Hylans
  • The Shaggs- directed by Katherine Dieckmann
  • The Signs of Living — Rosanna Arquette — directed by Gail Harvey
  • Silent Spring of Rachel Carson
  • Shoe Addicts Anonymous — Halle Berry — written by Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan
  • Showing Roots
  • Smash
  • The Solitude of Prime Numbers — Isabella Rossellini
  • Someday My Price Will Come — Isla Fisher, written by Audrey Wells
  • Still of the Night — Michelle Monaghan, Susan Sarandon
  • Sweet Baby Jesus — Bette Midler
  • Swindle — Megan Fox and Zoe Saldana
  • T-Rex
  • There Are Monsters — Elisabeth Moss
  • Three Days in Dublin — directed by Beth Lauren
  • Tink- Reese Witherspoon
  • Tomb Raider — written by Marti Noxon
  • Trevi
  • Under the Bridge
  • The Undomestic Goddess — written by Aline Brosh McKenna
  • The Most Hated Woman in America
  • Untitled Anita Linblom biopic — directed by Catherine Hardwicke
  • Untitled Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig — directed by Kristen Wiig
  • Untitled Female Road comedy — written by Annie Mumolo
  • Untitled film about female War Correspondents — Shonda Rhimes
  • Untitled Louise Thaden Aviation Film
  • Untitled Miranda Cosgrove — written by Emma Forrest
  • Up and Running: The Jami Goldman Story — written by Jami Goldman and Andrea Cagan
  • Voice from the Stone
  • Wait Till Helen Comes — directed by Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Wake- Miley Cyrus
  • Wicked Lovely — written by Caroline Thompson and directed by Mary Harron
  • What Alice Forgot — written by Katherine Fugate
  • What’s the Point (and Other Fair Questions About Marriage) — Written and Directed by Lake Bell
  • When You Reach Me
  • Who is Doris Payne? — Halle Berry
  • The Wife
  • Wife 22 — Written by Kris Swanberg
  • Wild Oats — written by Claudia Myers
  • Words
  • Your Voice in my Head — directed by Francesca Gregorini

Future Films Written By Women

  • Anubis — Jane Goldman
  • Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares — Lena Dunham
  • Indiscretion — Caroline Case
  • Hunting Eichmann — Ann Peacock
  • Lioness — Rosalind Ross
  • The Day I Turned Uncool — Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneu
  • The 5th Wave — Susannah Grant
  • Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus — Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan
  • Rochester — Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Rust: Visitor in the Field — Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Tusk, Tusk- Polly Stenham
  • Unscrupulous — Barbara Turner

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