Please recommend me some pro-feminism films- I am fed up!

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The last few films I have watched have either had very few female characters, or the ones they have had have either been 2-dimensional characters as a prop for the main lead characters, or simply as a sex object love interest.

It's really getting me down now, and Idon't think I am being paranoid as DH also remarked upon the lack of strong female characters.

Recently I have seen

• New Years Eve- anti-feminist on sooo many lvels
• The Accidental Husband- turned it off after 20 minutes
• Horrible Bosses- didn't even attempt to hide its 'women as sex objects' plot, use of lots of anti-women swearing and insults
• Teeth- NOT my choice to watch this, saw it at a friends house and was

The only half-decent film I have seen recently with a strong female character is 'La Potiche', a French comedy.

Does anyone have any recommendations for pro-Feminism films?

Sorry. Jesting = keaton. Damn phone!

Morvern Callar is a superb film.

Beauty Shop

would Baby Boom with Diane Keaton be considered feminist or straw feminist?

I would say that it is anti-feminist, if anything: she is blocked at her job for being a mother, shown eschewing her qualifications for cosy domesticity in the country cooking and then selling baby food, which doesn't threaten the patriarchal business world, and settles down with a rather patronising vet who shows her the value of being a "mom and wife" instead of bothering herself with the big boys' world she had worked so long to be successful in. The message being that women who become mothers can't be accommodated in a normal business environment, and instead need the lower pressure of self-employment in some twee cupcakery-type enterprise. It gives me the rage, actually.

Alien - yy!

I have a soft spot for Baise Moi, though I know that's quite a contentious one, and the feeling's definitely not extended to Thelma & Louise.

Camille Claudel, yy.

I also quite like Artemisia.

Any thoughts about Hard Candy?

Best of all, though, Amma Asante's A Way of Life, which is just an amazing, thought provoking, moving and brilliant film, and didn't get anywhere near the attention that it it deserved - probably because it had a female protagonist, female director and lacked a trendy back catalogue soundtrack, also because it was made with intelligence and sensitivity and didn't try and fudge the issues it addressed with simplistic morality. So it was completely overshadowed by Shane Meadows' This Is England. A great shame.

It seems that most English language 'feminist' films - or at least those with detailed, engaging female protagonists and where the plot isn't derailed by a hackneyed Hollywood template and/or drenched in schmaltz - are made by independent producers/directors. Weird that they've generally been seen as 'minority interest' productions, when it's known that the biggest film going group are women in their 30s.

It's worth having a look at a documentary called 'This Film is Not Yet Rated'. It's got an appalling cover, but it uncovers a lot about why English language film is so anti-women. Very interesting comments from film makers like Mary Harron, too.

Pretty Woman.
Julia Roberts decides that working nine to five in the real world is not for her and makes a success of herself working in the sex industry.

Steel Magnolias, sentimental but nice, I love Dolly!
Practical Magic
Muriels Wedding, in a very obscure way
Kind of sad that I cannot think of anymore. All films should be feminist.

Lollygag

To see who hasn't got a sense of humour,obviously!