Films By and About Women

Women Centric Films Currently Playing

• Return- written and directed by Liza Johnson
• One for the Money – Katherine Heigl, written by Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith and Liz Brixius
• Haywire
• Underworld Awakening
• Carol Channing: Larger Than LIfe - directed by Dori Berinson  (doc)
• Joyful Noise – Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah
• Pariah – written and directed by Dee Rees
• The Iron Lady- written by Abi Morgan and directed by Phyllida Lloyd
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Young Adult  – written by Diablo Cody
• My Week With Marilyn
• Breaking Dawn- written by Melissa Rosenberg
• Melancholia

Women Directed Films Currently Playing

• Thin Ice - co-written by Karen L. Sprecher and Jill Sprecher, directed by Jill Sprecher
• In Darkness - Agnieszka Holland
• Declaration of War - Valerie Donzelli
• Sing Your Song - Susanne Rostock
• In the Land of Blood and Honey - written and directed by Angelina Jolie
• My Reincarnation - Jennifer Fox - (doc)
• Being Elmo  - Constance Marks

Women Written Films Currently Playing

• The Vow- co-written by Abby Kohn
• The Woman in Black - Jane Goldman
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - co-written by Michele Mulroney
• New Year's Eve - written by Katherine Fugate
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy- co-written by Bridget O'Connor
• Shame - co-written by Abi Morgan

Upcoming Films

• Gone - February 24
• Black Butterflies - directed by Paula van der Oest - March 2
• Attenberg - directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari - March 9 (NY)
• Natural Selection - March 16
• The Hunger Games - March 23
• The Deep Blue Sea - March 23
• Turn Me on Dammit - directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen - March 30
• Mirror, Mirror - March 30
• The Lady - April 13
• Girl in Progress - directed by Patricia Riggen - May 11
• Where Do We Go Now? - directed by Nadine Labaki - May 11
• What to Expect When You Are Expecting - May 18
• Trishna - May 18
• Safe Haven - June 1
• Snow White and the Huntsman - June 1
• Jack and Diane - June 1
• Peace, Love and Misunderstanding - co- written by Christina Mengert - June 1
• Prometheus - June 8
• Brave - June 22
• Your Sisters Sister - written and directed by Lynn Shelton - June 22
• Sparkle - August 10
• Wish Me Away - Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf - summer 2012 (doc)
• House at the End of the Street - September 21
• Won't Back Down - September 28
• Butter - October 5
• Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - November 16

2013

• Beautiful Creatures - February 1
• The Host - March 29
• Mommy and Me - May 10
• Catching Fire- November 22

Upcoming Women Directed

• The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jane - Marie Losier - March 9 (doc)
• Friends With Kids - Jennifer Westfeldt - March 9
• Musical Chairs - Susan Seidelman - March 23
• The Moth Diaries – directed by Mary Harron - April 20
• Last Call at the Oasis - Jessica Yu - May 4 (doc)
• Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel - Lisa Immordino Vreeland - May 2012 (doc)
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - written and directed by Lorene Scafaria - June 22
• Take This Waltz-  Sarah Polley - June 29
• My Mother's Curse - Anne Fletcher - November 2
• Untitled Bin Laden - Kathryn Bigelow - December 19

Upcoming Women Written

Women Centric films without US release dates

• 2 Days in NY written and directed by Julie Delpy
• Ashes to Ashes – Goldie Hawn
• Beyond – directed by Pernilla August – starring Noomi Rapace
• Bringing Up Bobby – written and directed by Famke Janssen
• Damsels in Distress
• Dark Tide – Halle Berry – written by Amy Sorlie
• Everyone Else – written and directed by Maren Ede
• From the Rough
• The Good Life – directed by Eva Mulvad (doc)
• Girltrash: All Night Long – directed by Alexandra Kondrake, written by Angela Robinson
• Hick- Chloe Moretz
• Hideaway
• If I Were You – written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin- starring Marcia Gay Harden
• Life Happens
• Niloofar – directed by Sabine El Gemayel
• Special Forces- Diane Kruger
• The Girl
• Tiger Eyes
• War Flowers – Christina Ricci
• Winnie- Jennifer Hudson
• Within the Whirlwind – directed by Marleen Gorris
• Vamps – Alicia Silverstone, written and directed by Amy Heckerling
• Violet & Daisy

Women Directed Completed – No US Release Date

• The Black Tulip – directed by Sonia Nassery Cole
• Burma Soldier – directed by Nic Dunlop, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (doc)
• Chicken with Plums- Marjane Satrapi
• Flying Lessons – Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace
• Hysteria – Maggie Gyllenhaal, directed by Tanya Wexler
• For Ellen- directed by So Yong Kim
• The Loneliest Planet- Julia Loktev
• Saving Grace B. Jones
• Skylab - directed by Julie Delpy
• Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston directed by Whitney Sudler-Smith (doc)
• Wuthering Heights – directed by Andrea Arnold- written by Olivia Hetreed
• Yelling To The Sky – directed by Victoria Mahoney

Future Women Directed

• A Ghost Story - Jordan Scott
• A Virgin Mary - directed by Beth Schacter
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Mimi Leder
• All You Need is Love- Susanne Bier
• The Archivist- Robin Wright, written by Ann Cherkis
• Bombay Dreams – Deepa Mehta, written by Sabrina Dhawan
• The Fugees - Audrey Wells
• The Hand Job - Maggie Carey
• Heist Society - Drew Barrymore
• How to Be Single - Drew Barrymore
• Human Resources - Courtney Hunt
• Laddies - Lynn Shelton
• Lamb of God - written and directed by Diablo Cody
• Late Bloomers – Julie Gavras
• The Maze Runner- Catherine Hardwicke
• Marburg - Isabel Coixet
• May in Summer- Cherien Dabis
• Pictures at a Revolution- Marina Zenovich (doc)
• Rapt- Susanne Bier
• Refuge - Jessica Goldberg
• Sammy – written by Delia Ephron and directed by Cherie Nowland
• Vivaldi – Patricia Riggen
• The Boom Boom Room- Lian Lunson
• The Fight Before Christmas - Anne Fletcher
• The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness - Sherry Hormann
• Telling of the Shoes - written and to be directed by Amanda Goodwin
• Then We Came to The End- Lynn Shelton
• Unforgiving World - written by Nicole Holofcener, directed by Nanette Burstein
• The Walls – Kimberly Peirce

Future Films By and About Women

• 96 Minutes – written and directed by Aimee Lago
• A Friend For The End of The World - written and directed by Lorene Scafaria - filming
• A Place of Only Sky – Miranda Richardson
• A Thousand Guns – Vera Farmiga
• Admission- Tina Fey
• The Age of Adaline – Katherine Heigl
• Annie - written by Emma Thompson
• August: Osage County – Julia Robert and Meryl Streep
• Au Pairs – written by Alexa Junge
• A Woman of No Importance
• Alive & Kicking – produced by Mia Hamm
• Austenland - directed by Jerusha Hess
• Baby Maker - Olivia Munn
• The Beautiful and the Damned – starring Keira Knightley
• Beautiful Girl
• Before I Fall – written by Maria Maggenti
• The Bell Jar – Julia Stiles
• Best Buds – Natalie Portman
• Bitch Posse - directed by Catherine Hardwicke
• Bobbie Sue – starring Cameron Diaz
• Business Trip – written by Stacey Harman
• Callas
• Camilla Dickenson - written and directed by Cornelia Moore
• Cantinflas – written and directed by Gabriela Tagliavini
• Captured – Isabelle Huppert
• Cassandra at the Wedding – written by Michelle Lipton
• Castro’s Daughter
• Celeste and Jesse Forever – Rashida Jones
• Class Act – Halle Berry
• Clown Girl – written by Kristen Wiig
• Cloudburst – Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis
• Darling Companion
• The Danish Girl – Nicole Kidman
• Daughter of the Queen of Sheeba
• Deadlocked- Helen Mirren
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
• Dreams of a Dying Heart- Hilary Swank
• Earthbound – directed by Nicole Kassell
• Effie Gray – written by Emma Thompson
• Elena’s Serenade – written by Sarah Wayne Callies
• Emily the Strange – Chloe Moretz
• Enchanted 2 – directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Jessie Nelson
• Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
• Factory Girls
• Face Value - Rachel Weisz
• Fast Girls
• Five Men Who Broke My Heart – adapted by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
• Florence of Arabia – Charlize Theron
• Four Saints
• Freeheld- Ellen Page
• French Women Don’t Get Fat
• From the Rough – Taraji P. Henson
• I’m.mortal – Amanda Seyfried
• The Girl Who Conned the Ivy League- written by Lorene Scafaria
• Girl Soldier – Uma Thurman
• Girls Like Us
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• Girls Night Out- Dakota Fanning
• Golden Gate
• Goodnight Moon
• The Goree Girls – Jennifer Aniston
• The Grandmother - directed by Anne Fontaine
• Great Hope Springs - Meryl Streep
• Heaven & Earth – directed by Marleen Gorris
• Heroine
• Honey Pot
• The Host
• House at the End of the Street – Elisabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence
• How to Get Divorced by 30 – written by Sascha Rothchild
• I, Anna
• If I Stay
• In a Strange City
• Invasion of Privacy
• The Invisible X – directed by Karyn Kusama, Rachel Weisz
• Is He The One- directed by Elizabeth Allen
• Isabella Blow biopic
• Jackie - directed by Antoinette Beumer
• Jamie and Jessie are Not Together – written and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton
• Juliet
• The Kathleen Hanna Project a.k.a Who Told You Christmas Wasn’t Cool?” – directed by Sini Anderson
• The Kid Table
• The Lady Who Went Too Far
• Life Coach- Isla Fisher
• Little Bee- Nicole Kidman
• Lost in Austen
• The Low Self Esteem of Lizzy Gillespie – written by Mindy Kaling
• Luna – Rachel Weisz
• Lunch Lady – Amy Poehler
• Lynn Shelton Project – Rachel Weisz, Emily Blunt
• Maleficent – written by Linda Woolverton
• Mame- Tilda Swinton
• Mental- Toni Collette
• Ms. Faux Pas
• Muktar Mai biopic
• Mulan – Zhang Ziyi
• My Ex-Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me – written by Hilary Winston
• My Fair Lady – Keira Knightley, written by Emma Thompson
• My Mother The Cheerleader – Julia Roberts
• My Name is Jody Williams
• My Stroke of Insight
• My Ten Best Days – Amy Adams
• Nina Simone biopic - written by Cynthia Mort
• The No Game – Shohreh Aghdashloo and Marcia Gay Harden, directed by Sherry Hormann
• Nobody Walks – co-written by Lena Dunham and Ry Russo-Young
• Nomads – Lucy Liu
• On Chesil Beach
• Our Wild Life - Nicole Kidman
• Peggy Lee Biopic – Reese Witherspoon, written and directed by Nora Ephron
• Pharm Girl – Reese Witherspoon
• Preacher’s Daughter – written and directed by Michelle Mower
• Pride and Prejudice and the Zombies – Natalie Portman
• Private Benjamin – Anna Faris
• Pumas – Jennifer Aniston
• Pure Life- Vera Farmiga and Elle Fanning written by Melora Donoghue
• Queen Kristina – Sarah Polley, directed by Mika Kaurismaki
• Rule #1 - directed by Courtney Hunt
• Satisfaction – Sharon Stone, Carice Van Houten, directed by Anya Camilleri
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World – Lorene Scaferia
• Scarpetta Franchise
• The Seagull – Kristin Scott Thomas, Carey Mulligan
• Shadow Dancer – Rebecca Hall
• The Shaggs- directed by Katherine Dieckmann
• The Signs of Living – Rosanna Arquette – directed by Gail Harvey
• Silent Spring of Rachel Carson
• Shoe Addicts Anonymous – Halle Berry - written by Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan
• Smash
• Snow White – written by Melissa Wallack
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Isabella Rossellini
• Someday My Price Will Come – Isla Fisher, written by Audrey Wells
• Stoker
• Sweet Baby Jesus – Bette Midler
• Sweet Lorraine- Tatum O’Neal
• Tammy- written by Melissa McCarthy
• Testament of Youth
• Therese – Audrey Tatou
• Three Days in Dublin – directed by Beth Lauren
• Tink- Elizabeth Banks
• The Trials of Cate McCullough – Kate Beckinsale, directed by Karen Moncrieff
• Trevi
• Under the Bridge
• The Undomestic Goddess – written by Aline Brosh McKenna
• Untitled Anita Linblom biopic - directed by Catherine Hardwicke
• Untitled Female Road comedy – written by Annie Mumolo
• Untitled Louise Thaden Aviation Film
• Untitled Miranda Cosgrove – written by Emma Forrest
• Up and Running: The Jami Goldman Story – written by Jami Goldman and Andrea Cagan
• Voice from the Stone
• Wait Till Helen Comes - directed by Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Wake- Miley Cyrus
• Wicked Lovely – written by Caroline Thompson and directed by Mary Harron
• What Alice Forgot – written by Katherine Fugate
• When You Reach Me
• Who is Doris Payne? – Halle Berry
• Wild Oats – written by Claudia Myers
• Words

Future Films Written By Women

• Anubis - Jane Goldman
• Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - Lena Dunham
• Indiscretion – Caroline Case
• Huntin Eichmann - Ann Peacock
• The Day I Turned Uncool – Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneu
• Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan
• Rust: Visitor in the Field - Aline Brosh McKenna
• Straight Outta Compton – Andrea Berloff
• Tusk, Tusk- Polly Stenham
• Unscrupulous – Barbara Turner
• We The Peeples – Tina Gordon Chism