Recommendations for everyone who wants to watch more movies by female directors but doesn’t know where to start

The memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German wartime prison.

A singer anxiously awaits her medical test results over two real-time hours. Roaming Paris streets, she encounters friends, strangers, and faces her own reflections on mortality. The city's vibrant pulse becomes a backdrop to her existential quest. Her journey culminates in a newfound perspective on life. This is an unmissable, riveting journey that beautifully navigates existential anxieties directed by pioneer filmmaker Agnès Varda.

Set in 1950s Tunisia, a 25-year-old woman, Alia, returns to her place of birth-a prince's palace in which her mother, Khedija, worked as a house servant and mistress of prince Sid' Ali. She had fled the palace ten years earlier, at which time she spent burying tortured memories of her childhood. In her visit to pay respects for the death of the prince, she wanders through the largely abandoned palace where she is confronted by these memories represented as detailed flashbacks of her childhood. She begins to piece together a narrative about her mother's sexuality and sexual exploitation in a space ordered by gender and class difference, and is re-awakened to her persistent questioning about her father's identity. As she negotiates her past, she also deals with her current relationship to her lover, Lotfi, who has asked her to have another abortion. Her development throughout the film contrasts her awakening to a past of sexual and social servitude which many of the female servants experienced in the palace against her own contested independence fraught with pain, conflict and uncertainty.

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.

In 1962 Louisiana, Dr. Louis Batiste leads a wealthy but troubled family. Despite being married to Roz, he succumbs to temptation with a patient, Metty, witnessed by his daughter Eve. Secrets unravel as Eve grapples with what she's seen, confiding in her sister Cisely. Amidst the sweltering Louisiana summer, the Batistes navigate a web of deceit and mystic forces that threaten to tear them apart.

Count Armalia believes that the luck of birth is all that separates the rich from the poor. To test his theory, he sends Anni, who is a singer in a dive, to a ritzy resort for two weeks. With fancy new clothes and ersatz status, Anni decides that she likes the rich life. But with time running out, she needs a rich husband and Rudi is the one she chooses. Only it takes longer than two weeks for Rudi to dump his fiancée and propose to her. In the weeks that she has been there, she finds that she loves Giulio, the postman with the small house and the donkey cart. But will she give up love for wealth....

In this period drama film directed by Jane Campion, a mute Scottish woman named Ada embarks on a journey to New Zealand with her daughter after an arranged marriage. As she navigates her new life, Ada's handmade piano becomes a powerful catalyst for connection with George, a retired sailor. Their bond deepens as Ada trades piano lessons for keys, igniting a passionate and forbidden relationship. Defiant and seeking liberation, Ada courageously leaves with George, embracing a new life as a piano teacher. This captivating film that garnered critical acclaim, delves into themes of desire and sacrifice, crafting a cinematic masterpiece that resonates long after the credits roll.

Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses that Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers that Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA, where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.

At a party for Bright Young Things, a "treasure hunt" for attractive yet virtuous people nets Sir Christopher Strong, M.P., and Lady Cynthia Darrington, dashing aviatrix. Their acquaintance is innocent at first; but after he sees her in a spectacular silver moth costume, virtue begins to wane. Against their wills, they are drawn into an affair whose consequences threaten Strong's happy marriage and both their careers.

Henry Graham has a problem: he has spent his entire inheritance, and is completely broke. With no skills, the only option is to make money the old-fashioned way; marry in to it. With a temporary loan to tide him over, Henry has only 6 weeks to find a bride, marry her, and repay the money, or else he must forfeit all his possessions.

German film in which a sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality.

In a freezing cold World War II winter, two pro-Soviet partisans - Sotnikov and Rybak - head off to find food for themselves and their compatriots. They find a sheep at the home of a German Headman but their return to camp is interrupted when they are arrested by a Nazi patrol. Taken prisoner, Sotnikov stands true to his beliefs and refuses to answer any questions despite physical abuse and torture. Rybak on the other hand argues that since they know nothing, they should simply tell them all that they know and do whatever they can to stay alive. One of them will live, but at a very heavy cost.