Parched
Starring: Indian women
Original release: 2015
Synopsis: In the arid landscape of Rajashthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
I can't begin to describe how good this movie is. It's real, it's vibrant, it's full of life when everything seems like one hardship after another.
Totally check it out.
Starring: Lebanese women
Original release: 2007
Synopsis: The daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
Women being women and with the same concerns we all have. It's a quiet film about life and love and growing old.
Starring: Swiss women
Original release: 2017
Synopsis: In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
I know. It sounds amazing to me too. Women in 1971 still not able to vote. I was even more amazed to find out that there were also women who were opposed to having the vote.
Like wow that's a concept.
And in Switzerland of all places.
Starring: Japanese women
Original release: 2017
Synopsis: Three sisters who live in their grandmother's home take their 13 year old half sister home to live with them.
Just a nice, sweet, gentle film following the daily lives of 4 sisters.
Starring: Actresses I have always liked
Original release: 1993
Synopsis: The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
This is a 4 star tissue movie. Seriously you're going to need the entire box by the time you have finished this. You'll also might want to hug your mum afterwards.
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.
Original release: 2011
Synopsis: 1960s America and an aspiring author writes a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Basically slavery make legal. I cheered every time one of those women fought back, especially Octavia Spencer who is truly awesome.
Starring: Sally Hawkins
Original release: 2011
Synopsis: The 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Sisters doing it for themselves.
Starring: Ugly Betty before she was Ugly Betty
Original release: 2002
Synopsis: Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
You can never have enough of daughters fighting against their mothers for the right to choose to do things their own way.
Go for it girl.
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