10 Feminist Films for Women's History Month

Alien*



Bend It Like Beckham
 

Easy A
 

Girlfight
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The Invisible War



Legally Blonde


Pariah



Precious



The Runaways
 


Whip It







* One of the greatest movies ever made, yes, but feminist?  Hells yeah -- the characters in the script were written as unisex roles that could be played by a man or a woman.  Sigourney Weaver, pretty much unknown in film, was cast as the lead -- but remember that audiences seeing this movie in theaters for the first time would have NO IDEA who was going to live or die.  Now that it's a huge franchise, we take it for granted that Ripley is the star, but imagine what a breakthrough this was in 1979.