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Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
SENORITA EXTRAVIADA tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this compelling investigation unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed for the brutal murders of women living along the Mexico-U.S. border. In the midst of Juárez’s international mystique and high profile job market, there exists a murky history of grossly underreported...
2) Balcony
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tina, a troubled teenage girl, is attracted to Dana, an Afghani girl. Initially, we trust Tina and admire her protectiveness of Dana from the kids at school and on the violent estate, but as we watch their friendship blossom we come to suspect that something is off..
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
日本語
Description
After being banished from her village, a peasant woman makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability. A classic-animated gem from Japan adapted from the novel, Belladonna by Jules Michelet, the story concerns a love affair taking place in the Middle Ages shadowed by witch-trials and the Inquisition.
4) Girl trouble
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie is pregnant and has a warrant for running away from a group home. Shangra is torn between taking care of her mother, who is homeless and struggling with drug addiction, and taking care of herself. Sheila, whose father and siblings have been in and out of jail, risks arrest and jail time by selling and using drugs. Girl Trouble is an intimate look at the compelling personal stories of three teenagers entangled in San Francisco's juvenile...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Kannada
Description
Selvi, like so many girls living within India's patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead she gets on the bus, choosing to live... and goes on to become South India's first female taxi driver. We first meet 18-year-old Selvi at a girls' shelter...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at popular culture and the ways real girls and women navigate their heterosexual relationships and hookups. Featuring dramatizations of interviews that Phillips conducted with hundreds of young women, the film examines how the wider culture's frequently contradictory messages about pleasure, danger, agency, and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The extra girl follows the misadventures of Sue Graham, a small-town lass who escapes her romantic entanglements by heading for the green pastures of Hollywood. Sue quickly discovers that the dream factory is just a factory like any other, as she is assigned to duty in the wardrobe department. But through pluck and ambition, she manages to overcome every setback, including one hair-raising sequence in which she accidentally unleashes a man-eating...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this video adaptation of her bestselling book, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti trains her sights on "the virginity movement" -- an unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and conservative policy intellectuals who have been exploiting irrational fears about women's sexuality to roll back women's rights. From dad-and-daughter "purity balls," taxpayer-funded abstinence-only curricula, and political attacks on...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this entertaining and informative film took place in 1972. It’s about an outlandish study on the effects of marijuana on young women. This film centers around five young women who shared a common goal: to make some money and have a fresh start in life.
11) Generation Greta
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
They are aged between 12 and 24. They have grown up in a world with increasing droughts, floods, fires. And they share a common fight: the climate emergency. In spite of their cultural and geographical differences, nine young female activists are united under the same struggle: raising awareness about the climate emergency, fighting against the inaction of politicians, and promoting radical societal change, so that nature and social justice become...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Female virginity. The US government has spent 1.5 billion dollars promoting it. It has fetched $750,000 at auction. There is no official medical definition for it. And 50 years after the sexual revolution, it continues to define young women’s morality and self-worth.. This hilarious, eye-opening, occasionally alarming documentary uses the filmmaker’s own path out of virginity to explore its continuing value in our otherwise hypersexualized society....
13) Las Marthas
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Unlike any other, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is part of a lucrative month-long festival honoring George Washington’s birthday. LAS MARTHAS follows two young women as they prepare for this elaborate rite of passage: Laurita, a 13th-generation debutante descended from Laredo’s original Spanish land grantees who questions debutante society’s class system geared toward girls like herself; and Rosario, a high-achieving, Mexican-raised...
14) Aretha
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young woman faces the challenge of having to prove her abilities when she tries to get her first ever job at a Cafè. A challenge most young women don't have to experience.
16) Latitude
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Four daring young women rediscover a sport they’ve known all their lives in Svalbard, Norway, under 700 miles from the North Pole.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Why does the modern woman need a matchmaker to find a husband? Parl Livermore is an American matchmaker to some of the wealthiest, most desirable bachelors in the world. She gets them to donate big bucks to her private charity in exchange for finding them gorgeous, brilliant young women to consider as possible wives. But can lasting love really be brokered? Witness a true life Bachelorette drama in action.
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the compelling and moving stories of two remarkable young women living in Gaza and the struggle of Gazans trying to maintain their humanity and humor while hoping to find some sense of normality in a world that is anything but normal.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cohen Film Collection introduces this classic thriller. As the son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession, the young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a woman, but can he suppress his urge to kill her?
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