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8 women = 8 femmes / a Focus Features release ; Fidelite Productions presents a co-production with France 2 Cinema and Mars Films in association with Gimages 5 and Bim Distribuzione with the participation of Canal+ and Centre Nation de la Cinematographie ; a film by François Ozon ; producers, Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier ; adapted from a play by Robert Thomas ; written and directed by François Ozon.  Universal City, CA : Universal, [2003].  PN1997.A23 E358  A wealthy industrialist is found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated and the phone lines have been found to be cut. Eight women are his potential murderers. Each is a suspect and each has a motive. Only one is guilty.
Adam's Rib / MGM presents a Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture. Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video : Distributed by Turner Entertainment Co., 1991.  PN1997.A23 A323  A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse, with the lawyer-husband as the prosecutor.
After Hours-Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c1986.  PN1997.A23 A36  Word processor Paul Hackett is looking for a break from his humdrum Manhattan routine. He heads to SoHo for a late-night date with Marcy, a girl he scarcely knows and gradually gets caught up in a bizarre web of seemingly chance encounters with a host of loopy, looney "downtown" night people.
All About My Mother  = Todo sobre mi madre / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; El Deseo S.A., Renn Productions and France 2 Cinema present a film by Almodóvar ; executive producer, Agustín Almodóvar ; written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000. PN1997.A23 A4363v  Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.
America's First Women Filmmakers- 114 min., Library of Congress and Smithsonian Video.  PN1995.9.W623 A49
 1993
How men propose -- Matrimony's speed limit -- A house divided -- Too wise wives.
An Angel at My Table-New Line Home Video/FineLine Features : SVS Triumph, c1992.  PN1997.A23 A564  Chronicles the life and times of the acclaimed New Zealand author, Janet Frame.
Anchoress  / a BRI/Corsan Film in association with the Ministry of the Flemish Community ... [ et al.] and Channel Four Television ; written by Judith Stanley-Smith, Christine Watkins ; producers, Paul Breuls, Ben Gibson ; directed by Chris Newby.  New York, N.Y. : International Film Circuit, 1993. PN1997.A23 A5625  Story of a 14th century visionary girl whose passions have attracted the attention of the two most powerful men in the village.
Annie Oakley / RKO Radio Pictures ; directed by George Stevens.  USA : Turner Home Entertainment, 1989.  PN1997.A23 A588   Fictionalized biography of the legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her relationships with rival sharpshooter Toby Walker and Buffalo Bill Cody as they travelled together in Cody's Wild West Show.
Antonia/Antonia's Line-New York : BMG Video, c1996.  PN1997.A23 A5887  A portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman.
Babette's Feast  = Babette's gæstebud / Just Betzer presents a film by Gabriel Axel ; A-S Panorama Film International ; written and directed by Gabriel Axel.  PN1997.A23 B233  With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread-- a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?
Bandit Queen  / Film Four International and Kaleidoscope present a film by Shekhar Kapur ; written by Mala Sen ; produced by Sundeep S. Bedi ; directed by Shekhar Kapur.  PN1997.A23 B336  Phoolan Devi -- outlaw, outcast, legend. In modern day India, lower caste Devi is sold into marriage at age 11 and brutalized by her husband (the first of many abusers) until she escapes and eventually winds up with a gang of ruthless bandits. She becomes an active member of the gang, robbing, kidnapping and murdering the rich and higher castes. In a bloody coup that electrified a nation, Devi transformed her world forever, rising above a male-dominated culture determined to bring her down.
Barbarella  / Paramount Pictures presents a Dino de Laurentiis production ; a Franco-Italian co-production.  PN1997.A23 B363  A female James Bond vanquishes evil in the forms of robots and monsters on the planet Lythion in the year 40,000.
The Blue Light  / directed by Leni Riefenstahl ; story written by Bella Belaze. [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 1985?]  PN1997.A23 B5785  First film directed by Riefenstahl, who also starred in the film as well. Based on a folk legend about a light from Monte Cristello in Italy.
Boy's Don't Cry-Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2000.  PN1997.A23 B688  A true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself, this film is about the life of Teena Brandon, a transgender youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena and the price she paid for her choices.
Camille Claudel  / Christian Fechner [presents] a film by Bruno Nuytten ; with the participation of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the National Center of Cinematography with the participation of Sophica Creations, Sofimage, Sofica Investimage.  Los Angeles, CA : Orion Home Video, c1998. PN1997.A23 C3553  A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel, whose love for art, Rodin and independence clashed, costing her sanity.
The Color Purple,-Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, Inc., 1997  PN1997.A23 C646  Introducing Whoopi Goldberg in an Academy Award nominated performance, this film is the richly-textured, decades-spanning story of Celie, an uneducated woman living in the rural American south in the first half of the 20th century. Forced to marry a brutal man she calls 'Mister,' Celie turns inward and shares her grief only with God. But she is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth ... and the strength to forgive.
Craig's Wife / Columbia Pictures ; associate producer, Edward Chodorov ; directed by Dorothy Arzner.  Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1986.  PN1997.A23 C735  Originally produced as motion picture in 1936.
Daughters of the Dust - a Kino International release ; American Playhouse Theatrical Films, 1992.  PN1997.A23 D384  Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North at the dawn of the 20th century. The family drama reveals the unique culture of the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who lived in relative isolation on the Sea Island off the Georgia coast.
A Doll's House / World Film Services; Joseph Losey, director/producer.  Los Angeles, Calif. : Prism Entertainment, [1986]  PN1997.A23 D655 An independent wife and mother in 19th century Norway struggles first to save her husband's health and then to free herself from a suffocating relationship.
Dream Girls-New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1994.  PN2926.T32 T3423 1994  A documentary film illustrating the ways that the all-female Takarazuka Music School and its annual musical revue reflect Japanese puritanism and sexual politics.
The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie Revee Des Anges) -Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1999.  PN1997.A23 D743  Optimistic hobo Isa, with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working whenever she can. While working at a dress factory, she comes friends with her co-worker Marie, who lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters, an apartment belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter. When Marie falls for a handsome, arrogant young man, it causes her friendship with Isa to suffer, with tragic consequences.
Dreamworld 2: Desire/Sex/Power in Rock Video- 56 min.  PN1992.8.M87 D77 1995 The author suggests that the image of women in music videos reflects a male adolescent dreamworld. In this world, all women are nymphomaniacs who constantly invite sex with any available male. The author examines the factors which produce this image and questions the effect which many hours of viewing this dreamworld might have on male behavior in the real world. Consists primarily of narration over clips from rock videos.
Extramuros-Frameline : Wolfe Video, 1994.  PN1997.A23 E9577  In order to save their financially troubled convent, Sister Angela and Sister Ana decide to stage a miracle. The stigmata are fake, but their love for each other is passionate. The Inquisition investigates and the two lovers pay dearly for their ambition.
Female Perversions  / October Films ; Trimark Pictures [and] Transatlantic Entertainment present a Mindy Affrime Production. [United States] : Trimark Home Video, 1998.  PN1997.A23 F456  A beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney is up for appointment as a judge. Below her veneer of self-confidence lies a darker side, one in which she is driven by bizarre visions and sexual fantasies. A series of events causes her to come unraveled and forces her to confront her fears and, more importantly, herself.  Based on the book: Female perversions: the temptations of Emma Bovary by Louise J. Kaplan.
Finzan-San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], c1990.  PN1997.A23 F535  Tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.
Flesh-Chatsworth, Calif. : Image Entertainment, 1998.  PN1997.A23 F5567  Joe, a bisexual prostitute, takes to the streets and meets an artist with elaborate and hilarious theories of body worship, a couple of transvestites, a dumb ex-girlfriend, and a friend whose armpits have been burned by a flame thrower.
For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf / written by Ntozake Shange ; produced in association with WNET-TV, WPBT-TV and American Playhouse ; Jac Venza, executive producer.  PN1992.77.F67 F67
 2000 
The visions and frustrations of six young women who are trying to come to terms with themselves and with being Black.
Girls Town  / C-Hundred Film Corp. and Boomer Pictures ; October Films. [S. l.] : Evergreen Entertainment, c1996.  PN1997.A23 G575  A gritty coming-of-age tale of four tough inner-city high school friends who have shared the many challenges of growing up female. Shortly before their graduation, an unforeseen tragedy shatters their already fragile world.
Go Fish-Los Angeles, CA : Evergreen Entertainment [distributor], 1995.  PN1997.A23 G63  A look at love among a small circle of gay young women -- dating, friendship, love and sex from a uniquely feminine point of view.
Gold Diggers of 1933.-Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1989  PN1997.A23 G6534  Musical comedy which pictures a group of chorus girls in search of millionaire husbands. A series of cine-ballets, enhanced by the artistic use of the camera, augment the story line. Includes the number "We're in the money."
Heavenly Creatures-Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Video (distributor), c1994.  PN1997.A23 H4388  Based on an actual crime, Heavenly Creatures is the story of two teenage girls who form an intense bond that leads to shocking consequences.
Heller Wahn  = Sheer madness / Waterbearer Films ; Cinéma Esperança ; [produced by] Eberhard Junkersdorf ; [written and directed by] Margarethe von Trotta. [S.l.] : Water Bearer Films, 1997.  PN1997.A23 S532  A wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism woven around the relationship between two seemingly opposite women who share a warmth and understanding that transcends the outside world.
I, the Worst of All  = Yo, la peor de todas / Assai Communications and Screening 22 Films International present a production of GEA Cinematográfica ; a film by Maria Luisa Bemberg ; producer, Lita Stantic ; directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg ; written by Maria Luisa Bemberg and Antonio Larreta ; executive producer, Gilbert Marouani. PN1997.A23 I1188  This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
Jane Austen's Emma-New York : A&E Home Video, 1996.  PN1997.A23 E486 . The story of a rich, clever, and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. Her romantic plans for others go ridiculously wrong and Emma herself nearly misses her own perfect match.
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice-Livonia, Mich. : BBC Video ; CBS/Fox Video [distributor], 1987, c1985.  PN1997.A23 P754  The vicissitudes of a British mother faced with the task of marrying off five daughters in a limited market.
Maedchen in Uniform- (German with English subtitles) 87 min., Embassy Home Entertainment, 1931.  PN1997.A23 M323 Legendary film from the German post-Expressionism period which is extremely daring for its time in suggesting lesbian affections in the story of a young girl whose identity is choked by the authoritarian boarding school she attends.
Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink)-Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1999.  PN1997.A23
 M95235 
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
Marianne and Julianne = Die Bleierne Zeit / a New Yorker Films release ; a film by Margarethe von Trotta ; Produktion der Bioskop-Film Munchen ; [produced by] Eberhard Junkersdorf ; [written and directed by] Margarethe von Trotta. New York, NY : New Yorker Video, 1994.  PN1997.A23 M373  Based on a true story, this film relates the emotional and psychological relationship between two sisters, paralleling the personal history of the Ensslin sisters. Gudrun (Marianne in the film) was imprisoned as a terrorist in the Stammheim prison, where she died, supposedly a suicide, in the fall of 1977 ; Christiane (Julianne in the film) worked for some time as an editor of a women's magazine, "Emma", and was determined to prove that her sister did not kill herself.
Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life-New York : HBO Home Video, 1994.  PN1997.A23 M946  The members of rival Latino gangs in Los Angeles are feuding, and the Echo Park girls are trying to stay out of the struggle for power and survive
Mrs. Miniver-Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2000.  PN1997.A23 M5795  A memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war. When Hitler did his worst, Mrs. Miniver did her best.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven-New York : New Yorker Video, 1992.  PN1997.A23 M6764  A factory worker goes berserk one day killing the boss' son and then throwing himself into the machinery. Trying to clear her husband's name, the murderer's widow journeys through ludicrous arenas of yellow journalism and left-wing politics.
My Fair Lady-Livonia, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, 1986.  PN1997.A23 M9475  Phonetics professor Higgins bets Pickering that in 3-6 months he can transform a cockney flower girl and pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball, a bet which he wins, with unforeseen consequences.
The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua / Algerian Television ; written and directed by Assia Djebar. New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [199-?]  PN1997.A23 N683  Story of an Algerian woman engineer who returns to Algeria after a long Western exile.
Orlando-[Burbank, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1994.  PN1997.A23 O755  Orlando, an English nobleman, defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations that humorously, hauntingly illustrate the eternal war between the sexes.
Persona-Culver City, Calif.: MGM/UA Home Video, 1993.  PN1997.A23 P476  An actress (Ullmann) who has suddenly and mysteriously stopped speaking, and her nurse (Andersson) are sequestered on a remote island. The actress's silence becomes a provocation for the nurse and she struggles for identity. A film on the unmasking of contemporary existence
The Piano.-Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment, 1999.  PN1997.A23 P53d  A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
The Promise = Das Versprechen / Fine Line Features presents a German-French-Swiss co-production, Bioskop-Film München ... [et al.] ; a film by Margarethe von Trotta ; written by Peter Schneider and Margarethe von Trotta in cooperation with Felice Laudadio ; producer, Eberhard Junkersdorf ; director, Margarethe von Trotta.  [United States] : New Line Home Video, 1995.   PN1997.A23 P766  The story of two lovers trapped on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall after one successfully escapes to the West.
A Raisin In the Sun / Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screen play by Lorraine Hansberry ; produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie.  Burbank, Calif. : RCA/Columbia Home Video, [1985]  PN1997.A23 R357  The life of a struggling Black family in a cramped Chicago flat and how it was affected by the promise of a $10,000 life insurance check.
Real women have curves / HBO Films presents in association with Newmarket Filmsa LaVoo Production ; produced by George LaVoo, Effie T. Brown ; screenplay by George LaVoo and Josefina Lopez ; directed by Patricia Cardoso.  [United States] : HBO Video, 2003.  PN1997.A23 R4235  Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life.
Rebecca-Livonia, Mich. : Key Video, 1988.  PN1997.A23 R425  A timid young woman marries an English widower haunted by the memory of his first wife.
Rosa Luxemburg  / Bioskop-Film [presents] a New Yorker Films release ; a film by Margarethe Von Trotta. New York, NY : New Yorker Video, 1994.  PN1997.A23 R6748  Based on the life of the Jewish political radical (mainly through her letters and speeches), this portrait of "Red Rosa" is an account of her political battles and tempestuous personal life (including time in prison for her beliefs) until her murder in 1919.
The Sacred Mountain  : a drama in 3 reels / a U.F.A. production. The white flame. [Chicago : Facets Multimedia, 198-?]  PN1997.A23 S233  1st work: The story of a skier who falls in love with a dancer. Before they can get married he goes off to ski on a mountain that no one had skied on before and dies in the attempt. -- 2nd work: The story of a daring young girl playing the "fox" in a spectacular "fox hunt" on skis.Originally produced in Germany as motion pictures in 1926 and 1931, with titles: Heilige Berg and Weisse Rauch respectively.
Salt of the Earth  / Independent Productions Corporation and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. Oak Forest, IL : MPI Home Video, [1987].  PN1997.A23 S25537  A social drama which depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining company to break a union strike of underprivileged Mexican and American workers, who endeavor to prevent their wives from participation on an equal basis in the strike.
The second awakening of Christa Klages = Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages / Cinéma Esperança ; Filmverlag der Autoren ; eine Produktion der Bioskop-Film München, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem WDR ; directed by Margarethe von Trotta ; written by Margarethe Von Trotta, Luisa Francia.  [New York] : Waterbearer Films, 1997.  PN1997.A23 S433  Christa Klages is a young mother distraught at the prospect that her day care center is running out of money. With her lover, Werner, and another friend, she robs a bank. The friend is captured and Werner is killed while eluding the police, so Christa flees to the Portuguese country house of her friend Ingrid, threatening both women's safety.
Sisters, or, The Balance of happiness = Schwestern, oder, Die Balance des Glücks / Cinéma Esperança [and] Filmverlag der Autoren [present] a film by Margarethe von Trotta ; a Bioskop-Film München/WDR production.  PN1997.A23 S577  Two sisters share a complex and compelling relationship. Anna seems dependent, emotionally and economically, on Maria. Successive inward turns of the screw, however, make it unclear who exploits and dominates whom.
The Stepford Wives  / Palomar Pictures International presents. [S.l.] : Video Treasures ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1997.  PN1997.A23 S756  Something strange is happening in the town of Stepford. The men spend their nights doing something secret and every woman acts like every man's dream of the 'perfect' wife. One young woman watches the dream become a nightmare and knows that at any second, her turn could come.
Story of Women = Une Affaire de femmes / a New Yorker Films release ; Marin Karmitz presents a film by Claude Charbol ; a co-production of MK2 Productions, Marin Karmitz, Films A2, Films du Camelia, La Sept in association with La Sofica Sofingerie. New York : New Yorker Video, 1990.  

 PN1997.A23 S768 

In this chilling recreation of a real-life criminal case, Isabelle Huppert plays Marie Latour, a beautiful and childish woman whose life and destiny are changed when she performs an abortion for a distraught neighbor during World War II.
Subrosa  / Produced in association with Sienna Films ; and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; a Smoke & Gift Production ; a film by Helen Lee ; produced by Hur In-young ; written and directed by Helen Lee. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, c2000.  PN1997.A23 S827  Subrosa traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known.
Sweetie-Van Nuys, Calif. : International Video Entertainment, c1990.  PN1997.A23 S8946  Dark comedy about two sisters: Sweetie, overweight and spontaneous, and Kay, guarded and repressed.
Taafe Fange (Pouvoir De Pagne=Skirt Power)-San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, c1997.  PN1997.A23 T23  In an eighteenth century Dogon village, the women terrorize the men into assuming traditional women's roles
Thelma and Louise-Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, c1992.  PN1997.A23 T4846  Two unhappy women embark on a trip that leads to a tragic incident that forces them to flee across the American Southwest two steps ahead of the police.
Tiefland  / Leni Riefenstahl. [Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia, 198-?]  PN1997.A23 T544  "Based on the libretto for d'Albert's opera, Riefenstahl directs and plays a gypsy dancer. Filmed largely between 1940 and 1945 ... released ... in 1954."--Facets Multimedia catalog.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg  = Les parapluies de Cherbourg / a Zeitgeist Films/Fox Lorber release ; produced by Mag Bodard ; directed by Jacques Demy.   PN1997.A23 U483  Two young lovers want to marry but her mother says she is too young and he is not wealthy enough. He goes off to the army, she discovers she is pregnant. Although she is still in love with Guy, Geneviève marries a wealthy gem dealer in order to give her child a father. The dialogue is entirely sung.
Watermelon Woman- New York, NY:  First Run Features Home Video, 1997.  PN1997.A23 W3766 A young black woman is making a documentary about an obscure black actress from the 1930s, Fae "The Watermelon Woman" Richards, and falls in and out of love with a young white woman.
Women in Love  / Brandywine Productions ; released thru United Artists ; co-producer, Martin Rosen ; written for the screen and produced by Larry Kramer ; directed by Ken Russell. Livonia, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, 1987.  PN1997.A2 W6554  Two sisters have their first sexual encounters in the Midlands during the 1920s.

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