Women Centric Films in 2020

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December

  • Wonder Woman 1984 – Directed by Patty Jenkins; Written by Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham
  • Promising Young Woman – Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell
  • Sylvie’s Love
  • DNA – Directed by Maïwenn; Written by Maïwenn and Mathieu Demy
  • Herself – Directed by Phyllida Lloyd; Written by Clare Dunne and Malcolm Campbell
  • Pieces of a Woman – Written by Kata Wéber
  • Dear Comrades! – Written by Elena Kiseleva and Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Two Ways Home
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Sister of the Groom – Written and Directed by Amy Miller Gross
  • Modern Persuasion – Directed by Alex Appel and Jonathan Lisecki; Written by Barbara Radecki and Jonathan Lisecki
  • Ariana Grande: Excuse Me, I Love You (Documentary)
  • Max Cloud – Written by Sally Collett and Martin Owen
  • Monster Hunter
  • Skylines
  • The Stand-In – Directed by Jamie Babbit
  • Finding Yingying (Documentary) – Directed by Jiayan “Jenny” Shi
  • Through the Night (Documentary) – Directed by Loira Limbal
  • The Never List – Directed by Michelle Mower; Written by Ariadne Shaffer
  • The Prom
  • Assassins (Documentary)
  • To the Ends of the Earth
  • Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
  • Breaking Surface
  • Nomadland – Written and Directed by Chloé Zhao
  • I’m Your Woman – Directed by Julia Hart; Written by Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz
  • La Leyenda Negra – Written and Directed by Patricia Vidal Delgado
  • Luxor – Written and Directed by Zeina Durra
  • Godmothered – Directed by Sharon Maguire; Written by Kari Granlund and Melissa Stack
  • A Girl from Mogadishu – Written and Directed by Mary McGuckian (UK)
  • Billie (Documentary)
  • Let Them All Talk – Written by Deborah Eisenberg
  • Black Bear
  • But I’m a Cheerleader: Director’s Cut – Directed by Jamie Babbit
  • PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money (Documentary)
  • Elyse – Written and Directed by Stella Hopkins
  • I Hate New Year’s – Directed by Christin Baker; Written by Kathryn Trammell
  • What Lies Below
  • Disco – Written and Directed by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen
  • Magnolia’s Hope (Documentary)

November

  • Happiest Season – Directed by Clea DuVall; Written by Clea DuVall and Mary Holland
  • Black Beauty – Written and Directed by Ashley Avis
  • Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker (Documentary)
  • Princess of the Row
  • Superintelligence
  • The Call
  • Run
  • Markie in Milwaukee (Documentary)
  • Noemí Gold
  • Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square – Directed by Debbie Allen; Written by Maria S. Schlatter
  • Mags & Julie Go on a Road Trip – Written and Directed by Ryann Liebl
  • Notes for My Son
  • Always and Forever
  • Girl
  • Dirty God – Directed by Sacha Polak; Written by Sacha Polak and Susanne Farrell
  • Ammonite
  • I Am Greta (Documentary)
  • Wolfwalkers
  • Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack (Documentary) – Directed by Deborah Shaffer and Rachel Reichman
  • Divine Love – Written by Rachel Daisy Ellis and Gabriel Mascaro
  • All Joking Aside – Directed by Shannon Kohli
  • The Giant
  • Chick Fight
  • One Little Finger
  • 1 Night in San Diego – Written and Directed by Penelope Lawson
  • The Princess Switch: Switched Again – Written by Robin Bernheim and Megan Metzger
  • Dead Reckoning – Written by Kristin Alexandre and A. Wayne Carter
  • Proxima – Directed by Alice Winocour; Written by Alice Winocour and Jean-Stéphane Bron
  • Coded Bias (Documentary) – Directed by Shalini Kantayya
  • Kindred
  • Animals – Directed by Sophie Hyde; Written by Emma Jane Unsworth
  • Honey Bee – Directed by Rama Rau; Written by Bonnie Fairweather and Kathleen Hepburn
  • Citation
  • Lingering – Written and Directed by Yoon Eun-Kyung
  • A Place Among the Dead – Directed by Juliet Landau; Written by Juliet Landau and Deverill Weekes
  • Where She Lies (Documentary) – Written by Suz Curtis
  • My Summer as a Goth – Directed by Tara Johnson-Medinger; Written by Tara Johnson-Medinger and Brandon Lee Roberts
  • Sleepless Beauty – Written by Aleksandra Khvaleeva
  • Lie Exposed
  • Darkness in Tenement 45 – Written and Directed by Nicole Groton

October

  • Kaali Khuhi – Directed by Terrie Samundra; Written by Terrie Samundra and David Walter Lech
  • Alone with Her Dreams – Written by Catena Fiorello, Paolo Licata, and Ugo Chiti
  • Hit Record – Written by Shug Cvitanic and Ethan Cvitanic
  • The Craft: Legacy – Written and Directed by Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Radium Girls – Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler; Written by Ginny Mohler and Brittany Shaw
  • Friendsgiving – Written and Directed by Nicol Paone
  • After We Collided – Written by Anna Todd and Mario Celaya
  • Over the Moon – Written by Audrey Wells
  • Defying All Odds (Documentary) – Directed by Caroleen Moise
  • Haunting of the Mary Celeste – Directed by Shana Betz
  • Fishbowl – Directed by Alexa Kinigopoulos and Stephen Kinigopoulos; Written by Maria Stratakis, Piero S. Iberti, and Stephen Kinigopoulos
  • What the Constitution Means to Me (Filmed Stage Production) – Directed by Marielle Heller; Written by Heidi Schreck
  • Belly of the Beast (Documentary) – Directed by Erika Cohn
  • Bad Hair
  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa (Documentary) – Directed by Sabrina Van Tassel
  • The Sounding – Directed by Catherine Eaton; Written by Catherine Eaton and Bryan Delaney
  • Seat 20D (Documentary) – Directed by Jill Campbell
  • Linda and The Mockingbirds (Documentary)
  • Surge (Documentary) – Directed by Hannah Rosenzweig and Wendy Sachs
  • Rebecca – Written by Jane Goldman, Anna Waterhouse, and Joe Shrapnel
  • Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold The Concert (Concert Film)
  • The Witches
  • She Is the Ocean (Documentary) – Written and Directed by Inna Blokhina
  • The Devil Has a Name
  • Don’t Look Back
  • 36 Husbands
  • The Forty-Year-Old Version – Written and Directed by Radha Blank
  • Time (Documentary) – Directed by Garrett Bradley
  • Saint Maud – Written and Directed by Rose Glass (UK)
  • Yellow Rose – Directed by Diane Paragas; Written by Diane Paragas, Annie J. Howell, and Celena Cipriaso
  • The Planters – Written and Directed by Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder
  • Fly Like a Girl (Documentary) – Directed by Katie McEntire Wiatt
  • Nocturne – Written and Directed by Zu Quirke
  • Evil Eye – Written by Madhuri Shekar
  • Blackpink: Light Up the Sky (Documentary) – Directed by Caroline Suh
  • A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting – Directed by Rachel Talalay
  • Freedia Got a Gun (Documentary)
  • Transference – Written by Nicole Cannon
  • I Am Lisa
  • The Doorman
  • The Complex: Lockdown – Written by Lynn Renee Maxcy
  • Once Upon a River – Written and Directed by Haroula Rose
  • A Call to Spy – Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher; Written by Sarah Megan Thomas
  • Aggie (Documentary) – Directed by Catherine Gund
  • 12 Hour Shift – Written and Directed by Brea Grant
  • The Devil to Pay – Written and Directed by Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye
  • Eternal Beauty
  • Let’s Scare Julie
  • Naughty Books (Documentary) – Directed by Austen Eleanore Rachlis
  • American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules

September

  • The Glorias – Directed by Julie Taymor; Written by Julie Taymor and Sarah Ruhl
  • Misbehaviour – Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe; Written by Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe
  • Kajillionaire – Written and Directed by Miranda July
  • On the Basis of Sex (Theatrical Re-Release) – Directed by Mimi Leder
  • RBG (Documentary) (Theatrical Re-Release) – Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West
  • Ava
  • The Artist’s Wife – Written by Nicole Brending, Tom Dolby, and Abdi Nazemian
  • Secret Society of Second Born Royals – Directed by Anna Mastro
  • Sno Babies – Directed by Bridget Smith
  • Then Came You – Directed by Adriana Trigiani; Written by Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Antebellum
  • Rocks – Directed by Sarah Gavron; Written by Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson (UK)
  • Blackbird
  • Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare – Written and Directed by Alankrita Shrivastava
  • Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story (Documentary) – Directed by April Wright
  • Resisterhood (Documentary) – Directed by CJ Crim
  • Enola Holmes
  • Alone
  • The Swerve
  • I Am Woman – Directed by Unjoo Moon; Written by Emma Jensen
  • Sibyl – Directed by Justine Triet; Written by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
  • The Broken Hearts Gallery – Written and Directed by Natalie Krinsky
  • Dad Wanted – Written by Paulette Hernandez, Javier Colinas, Victor Avelar, and Fernando Barreda Luna
  • Be the Light
  • Thank You and Good Night (Restored Documentary) – Directed by Jan Oxenberg
  • The Secrets We Keep
  • Mulan – Directed by Niki Caro; Written by Lauren Hynek, Elizabeth Martin, Amanda Silver, and Rick Jaffa
  • All In: The Fight for Democracy (Documentary) – Directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés
  • I’m Thinking of Ending Things
  • Cuties – Written and Directed by Maïmouna Doucouré
  • Unpregnant – Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg; Written by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Jenni Hendriks, Ted Caplan, and Bill Parker
  • Dream Horse (UK)
  • Lost Girls and Love Hotels – Written by Catherine Hanrahan
  • Switched – Written by Alexandra Boylan, Andrea Polnaszek, and John K.D. Graham
  • Range Runners
  • Indigo Valley – Written and Directed by Jaclyn Bethany
  • First One In – Written and Directed by Gina O’Brien
  • The Golden Girl (Documentary) – Written and Directed by Denisa Morariu-Tamaș and Adrian Robe
  • Children of the Sea
  • Freaks: You’re One of Us

August

  • Driven to Abstraction (Documentary) – Directed by Daria Price
  • All Together Now
  • The New Mutants
  • The Real Exorcist – Written by Sayaka Okawa
  • Fátima – Written by Barbara Nicolosi, Valerio D’Annunzio, and Marco Pontecorvo
  • Rogue – Directed by M.J. Bassett; Written by M.J. Bassett and Isabel Bassett
  • The Garden Left Behind
  • Ghost Tropic
  • The Faceless Man
  • Lingua Franca – Written and Directed by Isabel Sandoval
  • African Violet – Directed by Mona Zandi Haghighi
  • The Sleepover – Directed by Trish Sie; Written by Sarah Rothschild
  • The August Virgin – Written by Itsaso Arana and Jonás Trueba
  • The Unfamiliar – Written by Jennifer Nicole Stang and Henk Pretorius
  • Watch List
  • DieRy – Directed by Jennifer Gelfer
  • Represent (Documentary) – Directed by Hillary Bachelder
  • Before the Fire – Directed by Charlie Buhler; Written by Jenna Lyng Adams
  • In the Life of Music – Directed by Caylee So and Sok Visal; Written by Caylee So and Dane Styler
  • Open 24 Hours
  • The Crimes That Bind
  • I Used to Go Here – Written and Directed by Kris Rey
  • A Thousand Cuts (Documentary) – Written and Directed by Ramona S. Diaz
  • Spinster – Directed by Andrea Dorfman; Written by Jennifer Deyell
  • The Secret Garden
  • Sunless Shadows (Documentary)
  • Work It – Directed by Laura Terruso; Written by Alison Peck
  • Berlin, Berlin: Lolle on the Run – Directed by Franziska Meyer Price
  • To the New Girl – Directed by Aurora J. Culver and Ambika Leigh; Written by Samantha Macher
  • Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture – Written and Directed by Nicole Brending
  • Unraveling Athena: The Champions of Women’s Tennis (Documentary)
  • Gripped: Climbing the Killer Pillar – Written by Donna Laemmlen, Benjamin Galland, and Corey Fischer
  • An Easy Girl – Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski; Written by Rebecca Zlotowski and Teddy Lussi-Modeste
  • On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries (Documentary) – Directed by Katie Hinman and Toby Oppenheimer
  • The Vow from Hiroshima (Documentary) – Directed by Susan Strickler
  • La Llorona

July

June

May

  • The High Note – Directed by Nisha Ganatra; Written by Flora Greeson
  • Papicha – Directed by Mounia Meddour; Written by Mounia Meddour and Fadette Drouard
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own (Documentary)
  • On the Record (Documentary) – Directed by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick; Written by Amy Ziering, Sara Newens, and Kirby Dick
  • Military Wives – Written by Rachel Tunnard and Rosanne Flynn
  • Lucky Grandma – Directed by Sasie Sealy; Written by Sasie Sealy and Angela Cheng
  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy (Documentary) – Directed by Elizabeth Carroll
  • Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl (Documentary) – Directed by Amy Goldstein
  • Joan of Arc
  • I Will Make You Mine – Written and Directed by Lynn Chen
  • Funny Pains (Documentary)
  • Alice – Written and Directed by Josephine Mackerras
  • Fourteen
  • How to Build a Girl – Directed by Coky Giedroyc; Written by Caitlin Moran
  • Clementine – Written and Directed by Lara Jean Gallagher
  • Valley Girl – Directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg; Written by Amy Talkington
  • Yeva – Written and Directed by Anahid Abad
  • Mother’s Little Helpers – Written and Directed by Kestrin Pantera
  • CRSHD – Written and Directed by Emily Cohn
  • Sweetness in the Belly – Written by Laura Phillips
  • On a Magical Night
  • More Beautiful For Having Been Broken – Written and Directed by Nicole Conn
  • A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
  • 18 Presents
  • The Half of It – Written and Directed by Alice Wu
  • South Mountain – Written and Directed by Hilary Brougher
  • Tammy’s Always Dying – Directed by Amy Jo Johnson; Written by Joanne Sarazen
  • Becoming (Documentary) – Directed by Nadia Hallgren
  • Better Days – Written by Wing-Sum Lam, Yuan Li, and Yimeng Xu
  • Mrs. Serial Killer

April

March

February

  • The Invisible Man
  • Saint Frances – Written by Kelly O’Sullivan
  • Wendy – Written by Eliza Zeitlin and Benh Zeitlin
  • Thappad – Written by Mrunmayee Lagoo and Anubhav Sinha
  • Blood on Her Name
  • Disappearance at Clifton Hill
  • Emma. – Directed by Autumn de Wilde; Written by Eleanor Catton
  • The Last Thing He Wanted – Directed by Dee Rees; Written by Dee Rees and Marco Villalobos
  • The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (Documentary) – Written and Directed by Alison Reid
  • Premature – Written by Zora Howard and Rashaad Ernesto Green
  • Vitalina Varela – Written by Vitalina Varela and Pedro Costa
  • System Crasher – Written and Directed by Nora Fingscheidt
  • Goldie
  • The Photograph – Written and Directed by Stella Meghie
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma
  • Buffaloed – Directed by Tanya Wexler
  • I Was at Home, But… – Written and Directed by Angela Schanelec
  • The Rest of Us – Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee; Written by Alanna Francis
  • First Lady – Written and Directed by Nina May
  • A Simple Wedding – Directed by Sara Zandieh; Written by Sara Zandieh and Stephanie Wu
  • Eve
  • Ride Your Wave – Written by Reiko Yoshida
  • Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – Directed by Cathy Yan; Written by Christina Hodson
  • The Lodge – Directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala; Written by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, and Sergio Casci
  • Horse Girl – Written by Alison Brie and Jeff Baena
  • To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You – Written by Sofia Alvarez and J. Mills Goodloe

January

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