To shamelessly ask for films to watch with kick ass women in

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Just that really. IKIABU for misusing the AIBU area but I know there is a lot of traffic here and some kick ass women on here regularly who might know some great kick ass women films.

Context is I’m peri and totally rethinking how I want the last chapters of my life to look. I have been enjoying films and series with women front and centre - doing their thing regardless.

Sue Perkins series on Netflix, Perfectly Legal.

Peppermint starring Jennifer Garner.

TV series Happy Valley for one of the most multifaceted portraits of a kick ass woman with all her flaws.

This is great. Thank you so much. Lots of ideas. Just what I needed.

Arrival - brilliant movie with Amy Adams

Hidden Figures- really great movie (based on a true story)about all the women (especially black women) brilliant mathematicians who did calculations for nasa missions in the 60s, starring Taraji P. Henson and Kevin Costner

Bit out there but Game of Thrones? Lots of strong female characters in it.

fair play (Netflix)
Killing Eve
motherland
Queens Gambit
the Wonder
inventing Anna

Came in here to recommend this one; I think it's genuinely brilliant and it's a real shame it won't get a sequel. The characters were interesting people with actual personalities rather than stereotypes. They had conversations that weren't about men, fashion or sex.

One of them is a local history buff. There's no reason given for it, she's not following in her father's footsteps or anything like that, it's just what she's interested in. It's so rare for a woman in fiction to be given a hobby like that, and I hadn't realised what a different it makes until I saw it.

And tv dramas:
last tango in halifax
The split

Sucker Punch (2011). Try and watch the Extended Cut if you can. The theatrical version leaves out some important parts. It's my favourite film, ever. Oh, and "open your mind" while watching :)

Pretty much all I watch. Some of my favorites:

Under The Tuscan Sun
Eat Pray Love
Barbie
The Yellowjackets
San Junipero episode of Black Mirror
Demon 79 episode of Black Mirror
Good Girls
9 to 5
The Kitchen
Spirited Away
Set It Off
Hidden Figures
Wild
The Piano
Frida
Erin Brockovitch
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Ammonite
Chocolat
Selena
Matilda
Arrival
I Am Greta
A League of Their Own
Fried Green Tomatoes

Rocks. Not women but teenage girls. Rocks has to look after herself and her little brother when their mentally ill mum leaves home. Her relationships with her school friends are well done and the acting is really good, especially from the little boy who must have been about 6. It won a BAFTA but I don't know many people who have seen it. More uplifting than it sounds, although you may need tissues.

Harley Quinn in the second suicide squad film has one of the best female fight scenes in it I have ever seen.

Oh, and Grace and Frankie. Anything with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin or Mary Steenburgen.

Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers

The Post

Not mentioned so far but my absolute favourite film of all time The Dressmaker, the blackest of comedies with amazing female leads Kate Winslet and Judy Davis. Includes an untraditional love story that in no way outshines the women. Bonus, the costumes are amazing. It really is a hidden gem.

I watched it very long time ago and may be I'm remembering it wrong but -
Jackie Brown (Q Tarantino film)

On the basis of sex
Hidden figures
Peppermint
Hunger games
Salt

Anything with Jessica chastain in, she doesn't do anything other than kick ass woman.
Miss Sloane
Molly's game
Zero dark thirty
The help

Also love anything with Octavia Spencer in as already mentioned
The help
Hidden figures
Self made

I’m currently watching a brilliant series on Apple TV called

For All Mankind

One of the alternatives is that more women are involved in space exploration early on and so this series is absolutely jam-packed full of strong women.

It’s a great series anyway. Worth switching to Apple TV for a month or two.

Agree this one is excellent

Oh if you haven’t seen this series on Netflix you should watch it: The Law According to Lidia Poët. All about a pioneering woman lawyer in Italy loosely based on a true story.

Captain Marvel
The Marvels.

great fun superhero fun.

also Ms Marvel and She Hulk.

and new Star Wars with Rae in - they are fab

Maid (Netflix) another good one

Any of the Harley Quinn ones