Gender Roles Movies

This documentary profiles economist and writer Marilyn Waring. In extensive interviews, Waring details her feminist approach to finances and...

To protect themselves from a mysterious virus that turns women into men, a family retreats to an alpine chalet. Their desire to preserve the female...

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together.

This documentary is about sexism and masculinity. It’s also a journey through reflections on male condition, an attempt to strip away beliefs,...

Tina Ti leads a star-studded cast in this hilarious farce as a pickpocket who, while fleeing the police, stumbles into an apartment occupied by seven...

A blistering rock opera about the rise of fascism. Through soaring vocals and epic guitar riffs, men sink under the weight of an enduring loneliness...

About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy...

The carefree lifestyle vacation of Désirée, her white lover Elias and her gay friend Sal turns into a journey of self-discovery in the...

This documentary goes back to the turn of the century to show how women shaped the nation’s history.

How do we represent the ideas of gender? This short reflects about this topic, as we see an unidentified character, suited up, and with a paper bag...

An amateur filmmaker meets the film student who is supposed to edit his material, the focus of which is allegedly bears. A debate arises about the...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...

Amber, an eccentric child-turned-adult star, and her lover Liz are moving slow after a romantic evening celebrating Amber’s recent Oscar...

Women's civil defense activities, especially in case of gas attacks.

A young man and woman on their first date with the traditional sex roles reversed. The woman calls for the man and seduces him. This non-explicit...

Directed by Solveig Hoogesteijn, Macu, the Policeman's Woman (1987) is a Venezuelan crime drama based on a true story. The film follows Macu, a young...

Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role...

Janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it aren't afraid to show her...

The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film. The main plot is a romantic comedy between...