Female titular films

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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

Lolita

Mrs Miniver
Iris

Veronica Guerin
Gloria
Barb Wire
Frida
Coraline
Mildred Pierce

Thanks MeeWhoo, I'll do that when I have to write about film again.

I think as a lot of the Disney titles show, a film can have a title of a woman's name and still be totally chauvinistic.

Many of them would fail the Bechdel test (does it feature at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man?).

Domino
Juno
Christine (technically, although Christine in the film is a car. But it is a film where the title is a woman's name)

Hannah and her sisters

Driving miss daisy

Although miss daisy is the object of a verb not the subject there

Saint Joan
Corinna, Corinna
Julia
Barbarella (Autocorrect wants to turn that into Navratilova, for some reason)
Sybil
Lady Caroline Lamb
Stella Dallas

Just out

Lucy

Oh, if we're allowed verbs then I can think of a lot more. I've been restricting myself to films where the name is the title.

Greta Garbo was a one-man titular movies factory. Besides those already mentioned, there's:
Ninotchka
Marie Walewska
Camille
Queen Christina
Anna Christie
Mata Hari
Susan Lenox

And not Garbo, but Queen Christina made me think of them:
La Reine Margot
Anastasia

I think I can think of fewer films with men's names in the title!

Rebecca
The French Lieutenant's Woman (dubious though as woman is identified as possession)
My Cousin Rachel
Trilby

Betty Blue (probably not helping)

"Tangled" would more naturally be called "Rapunzel" but calling it Tangled was supposed to make boys not reject it.

Given the forum section, I would like to point out that I did originally type that Garbo was a one-woman titular movies factory...

Actually, I am genuinely shocked that one-woman gets "corrected" to one-man. And in typing the last sentence it's also tried to "correct" it to on-demand and one-on-one rather than, y'know, go with what I've typed.

Agnes Browne
Mona Lisa Smile

Jane Eyre
Rebecca
Agnes Browne
Run Lola Run
Nikita
Emma
Rachel's Wedding
Sophie's Choice
Sabrina
Hannah and her sisters
Annie Hall
Diana

Nell

Iris
Annie Hall
Frida
Selene
Roxanne
Jane Eyre
Coraline
Veronica Guerin
Anna Karenina
Elizabeth
Barbie

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Iris
Debbie Does Dallas
Foxy Brown
Hannah
Heidi
Selena
Elizabeth
Jennifer 8
Coraline
S1m0ne
Sabrina
Natalie

Theres quite a lot really

There are actually quite a lot!

I wonder how this compares to male titular films?

Are these films good representations of women?

At a glance it is a very 'white' list.

Who gets to decide a film's title? The producer?

Does having a female title increase $$$?

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Not sure if her diary counts.