Patriarchy Movies

Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

A woman resorts to prostitution out of hunger and commits suicide shortly after, leaving her daughter to embark on an equally cruel path.

Cursed to deformity like every generation before her, a paralyzed woman risks everything, including her life, to break the curse and save her selfish...

In Poland, behind the gates of an exclusive housing estate, the life of its wealthy residents is regulated by an old code of honor, due to which the...

A group of women fight patriarchy and societal values. Prem Kaur, a new police officer, uncovers dark secrets and becomes a beacon of hope for the...

A young woman struggles with living a life wherein her identity is still tied to the abuse she experienced as a child. One night, she falls victim to...

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his...

Navigating a nihilist millennial world where sugar-dating apps, hashtags and designer drugs are king, two sugar babies begin a murderous vendetta...

Social media superstar Qandeel Baloch pushed boundaries in conservative Pakistan like no other. In 2016, high on her newfound celebrity, Qandeel...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public...

Crickets, It’s Your Turn is a darkly absurd feminist parable in which a young photographer’s private theatre of imagination begins to...

The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms.

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises...

The cinema depicts the daily sexual harassment of a woman by speech, physical and gaze and the resulting emotional strain on her personal and...

A Cape Town couple, Katherine and Hugh, are headed to their private mountain getaway, when they pick up a hitchhiker, Liza, who carries a gun. Liza...

A Japan-set battle-royale comedy over a vial of sperm is centered around three women on the verge of a nervous breakdown from hearing their...

Shirish and Geeta, a middle class couple, have a car accident one night. Their differing reactions to the fallout from the accident open up fissures...

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.