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Tag: empowerment

  • Working Girl

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    When a secretary’s idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss’ job.

  • Howards End

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    A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

  • Muriel’s Wedding

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    A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

  • The Hours

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    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

  • Whale Rider

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    A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

  • Down with Love

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    In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

  • Princesses

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    Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye’s xenophobic co-workers.

  • Madonnas

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    A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.

  • The Band’s Visit

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    A small Egyptian police band travels to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves stuck in the wrong town.

  • Becoming Jane

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    A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

  • Amelia

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    A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

  • Pope Joan

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    A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

  • Equity

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    Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.

  • Lavender

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    A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.

  • Miss Sloane

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    An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

  • Dangal

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    Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

  • Wonder Woman

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    An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.