Female titular films

[weatherall]

I was just thinking how few of these there are.
(Films where the title is a woman's name)

I know I don't need to tell the fwr board how sexist Hollywood is but this marker is a really obvious sign of this.

There are so many good stories that could be told about fictional or real women's lives. Filmmakers are really missing a beat imo.

Off the top of my head I can only think of

Erin Brockovitch
Salt
Elizabeth
Emma
Charlotte Grey ?
Shirley Valentine
Pocahontas

[Kimaroo]

Roxanne
Annie Hall
Matilda

[MangoBiscuit]

Calamity Jane? I can't think of any!

[CitronVert]

Thelma and Louise

[poupeedeson]

Lucy (the new Scarlett Johannsen film)

Mary Poppins The greatest feminist of them all.

[GreenMouse]

Nikita
Amelie
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Maleficent
Cinderella

[Kimaroo]

...and Nanny McPhee

[museumum]

Hanna

I think it's a remake of Ronin perhaps? Anyway, I thought it was really good.

[Maddaddam]

Morven Caller (which I haven't seen but always sounds interesting).
Mulan.
Jane Eyre (various versions).
Vera Drake (? not sure about the surname - the one about the 50s abortionist)
Thelma and Louise.
Mrs Brown (the one about Queen Victoria).

I know what you mean about the film industry, it's not just Hollywood though. I had to write an essay recently about Spanish films (for a language course) and thought I'd write about gender and feminism and I just couldn't think of any Spanish film directors who were women, or Spanish films which took a feminist perspective at all (I don't know loads about Spanish films but I've seen quite a few over the years and it shocked me that I couldn't come up with anything feminist or by a woman at all. It's much harder than it is in literature to find good female leads or authors or directors).

[elQuintoConyo]

Angie (was that a film? Gina Davis?)

Nikita/La Femme Nikita

[PetulaGordino]

yes i enjoyed hanna

does sleeping beauty count? sorry this is horribly pedantic but i thought she had a real name?

[Kimaroo]

Aurora or Auralia wasn't it? Something like that anyway.

[Creatureofthenight]

Sleeping Beauty's name is Aurora!

[Kimaroo]

Carrie
Sabrina

[museumum]

Morven Caller was a great book. Haven't seen the film but do fancy it.

[weatherall]

So who wants to analyse why so many of these are Disney films?

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

Silkwood
Phenomena
Jackie Brown
Marnie

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

Gah. Philomena, not Phenomena. Damnyouautocorrect.

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

Private Benjamin
Moll Flanders

[StevesBollockAnalogy]

Anna Karenina?

[Kimaroo]

Madeline

[MeeWhoo]

Maddaddam, if you are still interested have a look at Isabel Coixet, Pilar Miro or Gracia Querejeta for female Spanish film directors.

[C4ro]

Quite a few Studio Ghibli are named only after women characters:
Ponyo
Kikis flying delivery service
Arietty
Princess Mononoke
Disney don't have total fail on this either:
Mulan, Pocohontas, "Brave" is titled Merida here in Austria
Although they lose points for Tangled where they sideline Rapunzel

[MeeWhoo]

Oh, and Iciar Bollain, of course!

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

Lady Jane
G.I. Jane
Calamity Jane

(on a bit of a roll there...)

Mary Reilly

[TortoiseUpATreeAgain]

Marie Antoinette