Recommend some films for my 14 year old and me about empowering women please

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If we enjoyed (and had brilliant discussions about) Suffragette and Hidden Figures what else would we like?

Dd1 is really enjoying this kind of thing and seems very inspired.

Yes please god not The Accused. I mean it’s brilliant but I’m not over it yet and I’m almost 50!

The Secret Life of Bees

My teen is a bit older and recently loved Saving Mr Banks and Mona Lisa Smile. Priscilla is on MUBI now and it's a great study of a young woman coming into her own. The Decendants is on DisneyPlus and it features a really great performance by Shailene Woodley as a teenager having to deal with a difficult family situation.

Enola holmes 1 &2

legally blonde the musical is available on youtube(it’s an mtv special recording)

Ella Enchanted

Has been said before but Alien/Aliens. Both Ripley and Vasquez.

Also Terminator 2. James Cameron really loves ballsy female leads (he was married to Katherine Bigelow and there's a marvellous shot of him when she won the Oscar for the Hurt Locker saying "Yes!")

Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight. Superb. Samuel L Jackson too, and one of the very few films where the leads have perfect chemistry but don't end up in bed together.

I break my heart every time I watch land girls. Superb film though!!

Wild and Election, both with Reese Witherspoon, might be good choices too.

Brill idea for a thread, place marking

Argylle has a great female character

Star Trek Voyager - series with amazing female Captain.

Steel Magnolias.

Bend it like Beckham

Whip It.
At the other end of the age spectrum I really enjoyed Nyad recently.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days- bit bleak but a good discussion about reproductive rights.
Girlhood.
The movie of Persepolis (the comic book is awesome as well).

Yes, this is fab! A great examination of a pretty horrible protagonist who grows and changes for the better.

Legally Blonde is also excellent 👌

Hidden figures- it's amazing and creates a good discussion for after.

Me too, on both points!

Gregory's Girl (oldie but goldie).

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Oh I love her. I think I've seen wild. Not election though

I adored enola holmes we have watched them. The one about the match girls was incredible and broke me a bit but an amazing film and theme. We did some reading about that one.

I confused this with Disney descendants!

Just wanted to add we have good discussions about female characters being portrayed as 'doing womaning wrong' so Miss Congeniality, 10 Things I hate about you, Legally Blonde. It's dd1 favourite expression!
Essentially we have started doing the Bechdel (sic) test with films.

We loved QueensGambit and I was gutted it wasn't a true story although dd1 was horrified by the casting of Thomas Brodie Sangster 😂.

We also watched Unorthadox which was a bloody hard watch but so interesting.

I'm avoiding ww2 stuff I just can't handle it too upsetting.

Sadly neither dd got into Erin Brockovich - shame cos it ticked every box!

Oh I love Bride and Prejudice - it’s fab

Mermaids is basically my life story!

I liked Gunpowder Milkshake - can’t remember how violent it was though

The Heat - Melissa McArthy and Sandra Bullock
It's a 15 rating though

It's hilarious too

Mrs Harris goes to Paris