25 Movies By Female Directors Every Aspiring Filmmaker Should See

25 Movies By Female Directors Everyone Should See

Spike Lee has allowed a few more women-directed films to grace the list of essential films he gives to his class at NYU, bringing the total women-films he deems worth watching up to a grand total of eight, four of which are by the same filmmaker, Lina Wertmuller. (The others deemed admissible to the list are Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, and Julie Dash.) Indiewire points out that even with these new inclusions on Lee's previously all-male-except-Katia-Lund list, overall women still make up proportionally less of Lee's list than they do in filmmaking as a whole.

So, in an effort to supplement this list we offer our own, of 25 films by women directors that all film students should see.

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