Female-Led Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 151 films led by a woman, spanning 1922–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Urbandir. Cristian Mungiu - 2017
A Fantastic Woman
Urbandir. Sebastián Lelio - 2014
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Urbandir. Ana Lily Amirpour - 1992
A League of Their Own
Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall - 1986
A Room with a View
Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory - 2009
About Elly
Coastal Seadir. Asghar Farhadi - 2022
Aftersun
Coastal Seadir. Charlotte Wells - 1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1979
Alien
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 1950
All About Eve
Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 1999
All About My Mother
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2001
Amélie
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 2016
American Honey
Rural · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold - 2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet - 2018
Annihilation
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Alex Garland - 2024
Anora
Urbandir. Sean Baker - 2016
Aquarius
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Kleber Mendonça Filho - 2016
Arrival
Ruraldir. Denis Villeneuve - 2007
Atonement
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright - 1974
Badlands
Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick - 2019
Beanpole
Urbandir. Kantemir Balagov - 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Benh Zeitlin - 1967
Belle de Jour
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1966
Black Girl
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Ousmane Sembène - 2010
Black Swan
Urbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1985
Blood Simple
Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1996
Breaking the Waves
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Lars von Trier - 1945
Brief Encounter
Suburbandir. David Lean - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 1998
Central Station
Urban · Ruraldir. Walter Salles - 2016
Certain Women
Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 1964
Charulata
Urbandir. Satyajit Ray - 1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
Urbandir. Agnès Varda - 1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ruraldir. Michael Apted - 1972
Cries and Whispers
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Mountain · Desertdir. Ang Lee - 2000
Dancer in the Dark
Rural · Suburbandir. Lars von Trier - 1995
Dolores Claiborne
Island · Ruraldir. Taylor Hackford - 2000
Erin Brockovich
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Urbandir. Daniel Scheinert - 2015
Ex Machina
Urbandir. Alex Garland - 2023
Fallen Leaves
Urbandir. Aki Kaurismäki - 2002
Far from Heaven
Suburbandir. Todd Haynes - 1996
Fargo
Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen - 1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ruraldir. Jon Avnet - 2008
Frozen River
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Courtney Hunt - 2014
Gone Girl
Suburbandir. David Fincher - 2013
Gravity
Off Worlddir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1978
Halloween
Suburbandir. John Carpenter - 1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2018
Hereditary
Suburbandir. Ari Aster - 1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Urbandir. Alain Resnais - 2004
Howl's Moving Castle
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2013
Ida
Rural · Urbandir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 2010
Incendies
Urbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 1934
It Happened One Night
Urbandir. Frank Capra - 1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Urbandir. Chantal Akerman - 2007
Juno
Suburbandir. Jason Reitman - 2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese - 1971
Klute
Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula - 2019
Knives Out
Ruraldir. Rian Johnson - 1960
L'Avventura
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1954
La Strada
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 2017
Lady Bird
Suburbandir. Greta Gerwig - 2005
Lady Vengeance
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 1949
Late Spring
Urbandir. Yasujirō Ozu - 2018
Leave No Trace
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik - 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 2016
Maudie
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh - 2011
Meek's Cutoff
Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt - 2011
Melancholia
Ruraldir. Lars von Trier - 2019
Midsommar
Ruraldir. Ari Aster - 2004
Million Dollar Baby
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2009
Mother
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 1960
Mughal-e-Azam
Urbandir. K. Asif - 2001
Mulholland Drive
Urbandir. David Lynch - 1988
My Neighbor Totoro
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1968
Night of the Living Dead
Ruraldir. George A. Romero - 2021
Nomadland
Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao - 1922
Nosferatu
Mountain · Ruraldir. F. W. Murnau - 1946
Notorious
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Desert · Ruraldir. Sergio Leone - 1994
Once Were Warriors
Urbandir. Lee Tamahori - 2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro - 2023
Past Lives
Urbandir. Celine Song - 1998
Perfect Blue
Urbandir. Satoshi Kon - 2007
Persepolis
Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud - 1966
Persona
Coastal Seadir. Ingmar Bergman - 2021
Petite Maman
Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma - 1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Peter Weir - 2020
Pieces of a Woman
Urbandir. Kornél Mundruczó - 2023
Poor Things
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Island · Coastal Seadir. Céline Sciamma - 2020
Promising Young Woman
Suburbandir. Emerald Fennell - 1960
Psycho
Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1991
Raise the Red Lantern
Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 1940
Rebecca
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2022
Return to Seoul
Urbandir. Davy Chou - 2018
Roma
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1968
Rosemary's Baby
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1998
Run Lola Run
Urbandir. Tom Tykwer - 1996
Secrets & Lies
Urbandir. Mike Leigh - 2015
Sicario
Urban · Desertdir. Denis Villeneuve - 1983
Silkwood
Ruraldir. Mike Nichols - 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 2021
Spencer
Ruraldir. Pablo Larraín - 2001
Spirited Away
Urbandir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1950
Sunset Boulevard
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 1977
Suspiria
Urbandir. Dario Argento - 2002
Sweet Home Alabama
Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Andy Tennant - 1985
Tampopo
Urbandir. Jūzō Itami - 2022
TÁR
Urbandir. Todd Field - 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Urbandir. James Cameron - 2014
The Babadook
Urban · Suburbandir. Jennifer Kent - 2024
The Bikeriders
Urbandir. Jeff Nichols - 2009
The Blind Side
Suburban · Urbandir. John Lee Hancock - 1991
The Double Life of Véronique
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 2018
The Favourite
Urbandir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 2017
The Florida Project
Suburbandir. Sean Baker - 2016
The Handmaiden
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 1961
The Innocents
Ruraldir. Jack Clayton - 2013
The Lunchbox
Urbandir. Ritesh Batra - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 2022
The Menu
Islanddir. Mark Mylod - 1985
The Official Story
Urbandir. Luis Puenzo - 2001
The Others
Rural · Islanddir. Alejandro Amenábar - 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Urbandir. Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1940
The Philadelphia Story
Suburbandir. George Cukor - 1993
The Piano
Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 2015
The Second Mother
Urbandir. Anna Muylaert - 1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Urbandir. Jonathan Demme - 1975
The Stepford Wives
Suburbandir. Bryan Forbes - 2024
The Substance
Urbandir. Coralie Fargeat - 2016
The Witch
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers - 1939
The Wizard of Oz
Ruraldir. Victor Fleming - 2021
The Worst Person in the World
Urbandir. Joachim Trier - 1991
Thelma & Louise
Rural · Desertdir. Ridley Scott - 1994
Three Colors: Red
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1997
Titanic
Coastal Seadir. James Cameron - 1953
Tokyo Story
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yasujirō Ozu - 2022
Triangle of Sadness
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ruben Östlund - 2010
True Grit
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ethan Coen - 2014
Under the Skin
Urban · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Jonathan Glazer - 2015
Victoria
Urbandir. Sebastian Schipper - 1962
Viridiana
Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel - 2006
Volver
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2012
Wadjda
Urbandir. Haifaa al-Mansour - 2011
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Suburbandir. Lynne Ramsay - 2021
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Urbandir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - 2010
Winter's Bone
Rural · Mountaindir. Debra Granik
Frequently asked
How many movies are led by a woman?
Kinora's catalogue lists 151 films led by a woman, spanning 1922–2024.
What are some movies led by a woman?
Films led by a woman in our catalogue include 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), A Fantastic Woman (2017), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), A League of Their Own (1992), and A Room with a View (1986).
What is the oldest movie led by a woman?
Nosferatu (1922) is the earliest film led by a woman in our catalogue; the most recent is The Substance (2024).