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Top 250 Films by Women Directors

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In the club
20
of 250 on the list
Share
8%
17th of 18 lists
Still missing
230
first is #2 The Ascent
Highest club reached
Five Million
Shrek

Clubs

  1. 1M208%
  2. 2M94%
  3. 3M62%
  4. 4M42%
  5. 5M10.4%

Fastest to one million

175d → 452d
  1. 1Hamnet175d
  2. 2The Invite243d
  3. 3Anatomy of a Fall366d
  4. 4Bottoms435d
  5. 5Past Lives452d

By decade

Share of each decade's films in the club
1920s0 of 1
1930s0 of 2
1950s0 of 2
1960s0 of 5
1970s0 of 17
1980s0 of 12
1990s5 of 31
2000s5 of 30
2010s4 of 63
2020s6 of 87

The list

250 films
Top 250 Films by Women Directors, with the date each film reached each club
#Film1M2M3M4M5M6M7M8M
1City of God2002Fernando Meirelles4,890d———————
2The Ascent1977
3Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019Céline Sciamma2,074d———————
4The Voice of Hind Rajab2025
5Werckmeister Harmonies2000
6The Company of Strangers1990
7Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1975
8Quo Vadis, Aida?2020
9Capernaum2018
10A Silent Voice: The Movie2016Naoko Yamada3,358d———————
11Persepolis2007
12Little Miss Sunshine2006Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton4,182d666d426d—————
13Aftersun2022Charlotte Wells794d766d——————
14Hamnet2025Chloé Zhao175d———————
15Little Women2019Greta Gerwig1,089d520d448d373d————
16The Turin Horse2011
17All That's Left of You2025
18The Matrix1999Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski3,718d653d464d360d————
19Cléo from 5 to 71962
20Mustang2015
21Big World2024
22Past Lives2023Celine Song452d713d——————
23Jacquot de Nantes1991
24Moral1982
25To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar1995
26The Second Mother2015
27Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels1994
28Le Bonheur1965
29Leila and the Wolves1984
30Us and Them2018
31There's Still Tomorrow2023
32One Sings, the Other Doesn't1977
33Shrek2001Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson3,816d632d381d297d252d———
34Anatomy of a Fall2023Justine Triet366d———————
35Beau Travail1999
36Little Amélie or the Character of Rain2025
37The Breadwinner2017
38Vagabond1985
39Forever a Woman1955
40K-ON! The Movie2011
41Dou kyu sei – Classmates2016
42The Eight Mountains2022
43The Meetings of Anna1978
44Petite Maman2021
45given the Movie: To the Sea2024
46The Prince of Egypt1998Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells5,323d———————
47La Chimera2023
48Manas2024
49One Million Yen Girl2008
50Happy as Lazzaro2018
51Sorry, Baby2025
5220th Century Girl2022
53House of Hummingbird2018
54Ratcatcher1999
55All Your Faces2023
56The Farewell2019
57The Watermelon Woman1996
58Out 11971
59Mikey and Nicky1976
60Farha2021
61Little Forest2018
62Pariah2011
63Om Shanti Om2007
64The Invite2026Olivia Wilde243d———————
65Saving Face2004
66Bound1996
67Marona's Fantastic Tale2019
68Lost Ladies2023
69Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem2014
70Loving Vincent2017
71U.S. Go Home1994
72Bangalore Days2014
73Ghostlight2024
74But I’m a Cheerleader1999Jamie Babbit5,215d———————
75Foreign Land1995
76Real Women Have Curves2002
77Love and Anarchy1973
78Sunshine2024
79Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps2024
80Brainstorm2000
81Liz and the Blue Bird2018
82Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara2011
83The World of Us2016
84Daisies1966
85Happening2021
86Microhabitat2017
87Trenque Lauquen2022
88The Adventures of Prince Achmed1926
89Love Letters2025
90The Teacher Who Promised the Sea2023
91Tomboy2011
92Awakenings1990
93Green Border2023
94Love in the Big City2024
95The World of Love2025
96Seven Beauties1975
97Never Rarely Sometimes Always2020
98The Rider2017
99Slumdog Millionaire2008Danny Boyle5,005d———————
100Born in Flames1983
101Fucktoys2025
102Deaf2025
103System Crasher2019
104We Believe You2025
105A Place for Her2025
106Toni Erdmann2016
107Blue Heron2025
108Late Shift2025
109A New Leaf1971
110Summer 19932017
11135 Shots of Rum2008
112Something Useful2017
113Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma2026
114Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron2002
115Vikram Vedha2017
116The Heartbreak Kid1972
117The Tale of the Fox1937
118Birds of Passage2018
119Summerland2020
120A Regular Woman2019
121Lost in Starlight2025
122Her Story2024
123Even If This Love Disappears Tonight2025
124Tatami2023
125Stormskerry Maja2024
126Where Do We Go Now?2011
127Palestine 362025
128First Cow2019
129Wendy and Lucy2008
130Rye Lane2023
131Four Sisters and a Wedding2013
132Papicha2019
133Orlando1992
134Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms2018
135Sweet Bean2015
136The Tale2018
13720,000 Species of Bees2023
138Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll2019
139Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person2023
140Prayers for the Stolen2021
141Left-Handed Girl2025
142A Simple Life2011
143Superboys of Malegaon2024
144Rocks2019
145Salaam Bombay!1988
146Mississippi Masala1991
147Little Women1994
148Wings1966
149Girlfriends1978
150The Girl from the Other Side2022
151The Peasants2023
152Chocolat1988
153Blood Tea and Red String2006
154Falcon Lake2022
155Dear Ex2018
156Beautiful Thing1996
157Antonia's Line1995
158Drylongso1998
159The Blue Caftan2022
160Morvern Callar2002
161Mädchen in Uniform1931
162Rental Family2025
163CODA2021
164Toute une nuit1982
165Ninjababy2021
166Helter Skelter2012
167All We Imagine as Light2024
168The Souvenir: Part II2021
169Mamma Mia!2008Phyllida Lloyd4,356d501d406d—————
170Scrapper2023
171Identifying Features2020
172Working Girls1986
173Kamome Diner2006
174The Selfish Giant2013
175An Angel at My Table1990
176The Virgin Suicides1999Sofia Coppola4,831d———————
177Dogfight1991
178Losing Ground1982
179The Secret of Kells2009
180Divines2016
181On Becoming a Guinea Fowl2024
182Tótem2023
183Kim Ji-young: Born 19822019
184One Way or Another1975
185La Ciénaga2001
186The Swallows of Kabul2019
187The Piano1993
188Soorarai Pottru2020
189Speak2004
190Sambizanga1972
191Strange Days1995
192Peppermint Soda1977
193My Broken Mariko2022
194I Am Not a Witch2017
195The Nature of Invisible Things2025
196Caramel2007
197The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love1995
198Chicken for Linda!2023
199Blue Jean2022
200Eve's Bayou1997
201Little Fugitive1953
202The Namesake2006
203Angry Annie2022
204Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be2022
205Ode to Nothing2018
206Yuni2021
207Boat People1982
20828 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026
209Parachute2023
210English Vinglish2012
211Polisse2011
212Better Off Dead2025
213Our Times2015
214The Parent Trap1998Nancy Meyers4,580d631d——————
215Piter FM2006
216The Way Home2002
217Belén2025
218Fish Tank2009
219My First Summer2020
220Mermaid2007
221Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This2007
222Europa Europa1990
223Finding Emily2026
224A League of Their Own1992
225Wadjda2012
226Nomadland2020
227Honey Boy2019
228Lady Bird2017Greta Gerwig1,547d698d418d432d————
229Light Light Light2023
230Monsoon Wedding2001
231Women Talking2022
232The Girls1968
233Bottoms2023Emma Seligman435d———————
234Our Friend2019
235My Mom Is a Character 32019
236Noise2022
237Chilly Scenes of Winter1979
238Lullaby2022
239Sundays2025
240My Favourite Cake2024
241Sicily!1999
242Rent-a-Cat2012
243An Autumn's Tale1987
244Talvar2015
245Desert Hearts1985
246A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014
247Adoption1975
248Wanda1970
249The Amazing Catfish2013
250Take Out2004