Name five favorite feminist/women-oriented movies [View all]

[obamanut2012]

And post a short synopsis.

I have a lot, which is why I suggested keeping it at five.

1. Iron-Jawed Angels

"Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote."


2. Circumstance

"A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession." (Persian with English subtitles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstance_%282011_film%29

3. You Again

"When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée's true colors."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Again


4. Bend It Like Beckham
"The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism by playing on a women's football (soccer) team."


5. I Can't Think Straight
"a 2007 romance movie about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding. A turn of events causes her to have an affair and subsequently fall in love with another woman, Leyla, a British Indian."