THEME EXPLORATION

female power and powerlessness

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Raise the Red Lantern
Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Zhang Yimou
Sound of Falling
Sound of Falling
2026 · Mascha Schilinski
House of Pleasures
House of Pleasures
2011 · Bertrand Bonello
The Beguiled. .
The Beguiled. .
2017 · Sofia Coppola
The Marvels
The Marvels
2023 · Nia DaCosta
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
1997 · Mira Nair
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel
2019 · Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
...And God Created Woman
...And God Created Woman
1956 · Roger Vadim
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Das Schloß
Das Schloß
1997 · Michael Haneke
Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
1975 · Chantal Akerman
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Claire Denis France

She explores female vulnerability, agency, and complicity through sensual, fragmented narratives that interrogate power dynamics across colonial and intimate contexts.

 Agnès Varda France

Her films celebrate female autonomy and resistance while unflinchingly depicting women's economic precarity, aging, and social invisibility in patriarchal structures.