Welcome to MoviesByWomen.com’s list of movies directed by women, since 2000.
We’d like to thank Heidi Martinuzzi for providing the female horror film director listings.
KEY: SS (in Screening Notes column) means special screenings or film fest screenings and not necessarily theatrically distributed.
The list of movies is currently being sorted by FILM NAME. Click on the column headers below to change the sorting criteria.
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FWG DEBUT | SCREENING NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Conversations about One Thing | Jill Sprecher | 2/15/02 | |
| 18 Years Later | Coline Serreau | 1/9/04 | Date uncertain |
| 24 Realities Per Second | Nina Kusturica & Eva Testor | 2006/05/04 | |
| 28 Days | Betty Thomas | 2000/07/05 | |
| 29th and Gay directed | Carrie Preston | 6/5/05 | SS |
| 30 Years to Life | Vanessa Middleton | 2001/01/03 | SS |
| 5 Girls | Maria Finitzo | 8/2/01 | SS |
| A Boy’s Life | Rory Kennedy | 2/13/04 | |
| A Family Affair | Helen Lesnick | 2003/05/09 | |
| A Girl’s Own Story | Jane Campion | 1986/01/01 | |
| A Journey of Spirit | Ann Coppel | 2006/03/31 | |
| A Life Without Pain | Melody Gilbert | 8/3/06 | |
| A Lion in the House | Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar | 2006/05/19 | |
| A Love Song for Bobby Long | Shainee Gabel | 12/29/04 | |
| A Slipping Down Life | Toni Kalem | 5/14/04 | |
| A Year Without Love | Anahi Berneri | 2/10/06 | |
| Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story | Patty Kim & Chris Sheridan | 2007/01/12 | |
| Abel Raises Caine | Jenny Able & Jeff Hockett | 8/12/05 | |
| Acts of Worship | Rosemary Rodriguez | 11/21/03 | Re-release |
| Acts of Worship | Rosemary Rodriguez | 2001/01/03 | SS, Feature |
| After Innocence | Jessica Sanders | 2005/01/21 | SS |
| Agnes Martin: With My Back To The World | Mary Lance | 2007/01/12 | |
| Agnes Varda | Sigfrid Monleon | 2/21/02 | SS |
| Al Otro Lado | Natalia Almada | 2005/10/20 | |
| All About You | Christine Swanson | 1/31/02 | SS |
| All Hell Let Loose | Susan Taslimi | 11/1/02 | SS |
| All Is Normal | Juliana Brafa & Todd G. Bieber | 7/14/06 | |
| All Over the Guy | Julie Davis | 7/12/01 | |
| Alternative Freedom | Twila Raftu & Shaun Cronin | 2006/04/07 | |
| Amati Girls, The | Anne DeSalvo | 2001/01/17 | TV, Feature |
| American Adobo | Laurice Guillen | 2002/01/11 | |
| American Psycho | Mary Harron | 2000/06/01 | |
| American Splendor | Co-directed by Shari Berman and Bob Pulcini | 8/15/03 | |
| American Standoff | Kristi Jacobson | 4/26/02 | SS |
| Amy | Nadia Tass | 2000/12/13 | |
| Amy’s Orgasm | Julie Davis | 2002/08/02 | |
| An American Rhapsody | Ava Gardos | 8/2/01 | |
| An Unreasonable Man | Henriette Mantel & Stephen Skrovan | 2007/02/02 | |
| Anatomy of Hell | Catherine Breillat | 9/17/04 | |
| Angela Shelton | Angela Shelton | 8/8/03 | |
| Anguedia Callejera | Marta Noemi Bautis | 8/21/05 | |
| Anima | Erika Grediaga | ||
| Anita Pallenberg Story, The | Co-directed by Laura Cottingham, Leslie Singer | 6/15/01 | SS |
| Anne B. Real | Lisa France | 2/7/03 | SS |
| Anniversary Party, The | Co-directed by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming | 5/17/01 | |
| Anonymously Yours | Gayle Ferraro | 10/25/02 | |
| Antonia’s Line | Marleen Gorris | 2000/07/13 | TV |
| April’s Shower | Trish Doolan | 1/13/06 | |
| Aquamarine | Elizabeth Allen | 3/3/06 | |
| Army of One | Sarah Goodman | 1/27/04 | |
| Autism is a World | Gerardine Wurzburg | 1/28/06 | |
| Autumn in New York | Joan Chen | 2006/06/14 | |
| Away From Her | Sarah Polley | 2007/01/19 | SS |
| Backroads | Shirley Cheechoo | 4/26/01 | TV |
| Bad Girls Behind Bars | Sharon Zurek | 6/5/05 | |
| Baise Moi | Co-directed by Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi | 5/31/01 | |
| Ball in the House | Tanya Wexler | 2002/06/07 | SS |
| Ballad of Bering Strait, The | Nina Gilden Seavey | 2/21/03 | |
| Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack | Aiyana Elliott | 2006/06/14 | |
| Ballets Russes | Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller | 2005/10/26 | |
| Bano de Sangre | Paula Pollachi | ||
| Bark | Kasia Adamik | 6/28/02 | |
| Be Fruitful and Multiply | Shosh Shlam | 2005/10/20 | SS |
| Be Here To Love Me | Margaret Brown | 6/25/05 | SS |
| Bearing Witness | Marijana Wotton | 4/26/05 | SS |
| Beau Travail | Claire Denis | 2000/06/07 | |
| Beautiful | Sally Field | 2000/08/10 | |
| Beauty Remains | Ann Hu | ||
| Been Rich All My Life | Heather MacDonald | 2006/07/21 | |
| Gurinder Chadha1/16/03SS | |||
| Besotted | Holly Angell Hardman | 8/31/01 | SS, Feature |
| Bewitched | Nora Ephron | 6/24/05 | |
| Bhaji on the Beach | Gurinder Chadha | 4/13/01 | TV |
| Big O, The | Michaline Babich | 2002/06/07 | SS |
| Black to the Promised Land | Madeleine Ali | 4/11/02 | SS |
| Blackboards | Samira Makhmalbaf | 12/6/02 | |
| Blind Spot | Hanna A.W. Slak | 4/25/03 | |
| Blind Spot | Hanna A.W. Slak | 2003/05/09 | |
| Blindness | Anna Chi | 11/14/04 | |
| Blood and Chocolate | Katja von Garnier | 2007/02/02 | |
| Blood Tea and Red String | Christiane Cegavske | ||
| Bloody Angels | Karin Julsrud | 5/24/01 | |
| Blossoms of Fire | Maureen Gosling and Ellen Osborne | 2/3/06 | |
| Blow Dry | Paddy Breathnach | 2006/06/14 | |
| Blue Car | Karen Moncrieff | 2002/05/03 | |
| Blue Fire | Chia-Hui Gao | 10/4/02 | SS |
| Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | 2001/02/16 | |
| Blue Vinyl | Co-directed by Judith Helfand, Daniel B. Gold | 2/8/02 | SS |
| Blue Vinyl | Judith Helfand | 2006/04/07 | |
| Bombay Eunuch | Co-directed by Alexandra Shiva, Sean McDonald, Michelle Gucovsky | 12/7/01 | |
| Bootyful World | Avital Levy | 8/10/06 | |
| Born Into Brothels | Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman | 12/8/04 | SS |
| Boy’s Don’t Cry | Kimberly Peirce | 2000/06/01 | |
| Brandon Teena Story, The | Co-directed by Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir | 2006/06/14 |