Woman with a Movie Camera A celebration of work by female directors past and present. The Assistant Kitty Green's #MeToo drama is a sobering take on life as a film company assistant. Thriller 2019 87 mins Kitty Green Daughters of the Dust Dash’s groundbreaking Daughters of the Dust remains urgent and poetic and continues to resonate, inspiring Beyoncé’s iconic visual album Lemonade. Drama 1991 112 mins Julie Dash The Eternal Daughter Joanna Hogg's enthralling ghost story, featuring an astonishing performance by her regular collaborator Tilda Swinton. Drama Horror 2021 96 mins Joanna Hogg Palestine 36 Acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s most ambitious work is a powerful exploration of the events leading up to the Arab Revolt of 1936. Period drama 2025 120 mins Annemarie Jacir The Ice Tower Marion Cotillard brings a thrilling magnetism to this snowbound tale of obsession and wish fulfilment between an actress and a young runaway. Fantasy 2025 117 mins Lucile Hadzihalilovic Dreamers Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre. Drama 2025 79 mins Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor Discover exceptional cinema Just £6.99 per month or £65 per year. Subscribe annually with voucher code SUMMER26 to save £15. Subscribe now Available on multiple devices Help support a UK cultural charity Unique and trusted film picks New movies added weekly Deaf Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2025 Berlinale, Eva Libertad's debut film portrays a Deaf woman on the cusp of motherhood. Drama 2025 100 mins Eva Libertad In My Skin Marina de Van’s deeply personal debut about a young woman's addiction to self-mutilation stretches the body horror genre in new ways. Drama 2002 95 mins Marina de Van Skate Kitchen A timid Long Island skater-girl befriends a New York City-based skateboarding crew in Crystal Moselle's Sundance-nominated coming-of-age tale. Drama 2018 105 mins Crystal Moselle Girls Girls Girls Three young women explore love and sex in this spirited coming-of-age drama, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance 2022. Romance 2021 101 mins Alli Haapasalo If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror. Drama 2025 113 mins Mary Bronstein Together Two deaf-mute dock workers eke out a humble existence in London's East End in Lorenza Mazzetti's striking example of Free Cinema. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1956 51 mins Lorenza Mazzetti There's Still Tomorrow Rome, 1946. A woman finds the courage to challenge her violent marriage and seek out a different future in Cortellesi's extraordinary, magical debut. Drama Period drama 2023 117 mins Paola Cortellesi The Fight Jessica Hynes’ directorial debut is a life-affirming lesson in the importance of learning to stand up for yourself. Drama 2019 91 mins Jessica Hynes Currently unavailable Power Alley Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy. Drama 2023 100 mins Lillah Halla The Voice of Hind Rajab Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her. Drama-documentary Crime 2025 89 mins Kaouther Ben Hania Cameraperson Existence is laid bare in Kristen Johnson’s soul-stirring portrait of human life, told through the eyes of a filmmaker's trusty camera. Documentary 2016 102 mins Kirsten Johnson The Chronology of Water A woman battles addiction and abuse in Kristen Stewart’s uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression. Drama 2025 128 mins Kristen Stewart Scrubbers 1980s borstal drama – billed as the female Scum – featuring Amanda York and Kathy Burke as inmates in a ruthless women’s prison. Drama 1982 93 mins Mai Zetterling Brides Two British teenagers attempt to travel to Syria in this compassionate and thought-provoking road film, inspired by a true story. Drama 2024 92 mins Nadia Fall Late Shift Gripping drama in which a nurse finds herself caught in a race against time during an unrelenting night shift. Drama 2025 91 mins Petra Volpe Student Services A cash-strapped student becomes an escort exposing the stark realities of economic exploitation in this uncompromising gritty French drama. Drama Romance 2010 103 mins Emmanuelle Bercot A Night of Knowing Nothing All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia’s bold and distinctive feature debut explores the political climate of contemporary India. Drama-documentary 2021 99 mins Payal Kapadia Ultras Forget the dramatic headlines and take a joyful deep dive into 'the world’s most popular subculture’: football’s infamous ultras. Documentary 2025 88 mins Ragnhild Ekner Je tu il elle Akerman’s debut feature, with its 10-minute lesbian sex scene, revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema. Drama 1974 86 mins Chantal Akerman Chocolat Claire Denis' fully formed debut offers a child’s-eye-view of racial and sexual tension that bubbles with unspoken desires. Drama 1988 100 mins Claire Denis Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Chantal Akerman's magnificent epic of experimental cinema offering a feminist perspective on recurrent events of everyday life. Drama 1975 202 mins Chantal Akerman Little Trouble Girls A young girl experiences the turmoil of love and friendship in this nuanced coming-of-age tale with echoes of Céline Sciamma. Drama 2025 90 mins Urška Djukić All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning portrait of three women is a transcendent tale of love and sisterhood. Drama Romance 2024 118 mins Payal Kapadia Santosh A housewife-turned-cop is sucked into a high-profile case that has polarised the local community in this taut, north India-set thriller. Drama 2023 128 mins Sandhya Suri Beach Rats Gripping account of repressed sexual desire in a masculine environment, with British newcomer Harris Dickinson as a virulently macho Brooklyn teen. Drama 2017 98 mins Eliza Hittman The Arbor Clio Barnard's film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar mixes reconstruction, interviews (performed by actors) and scenes from the plays. Biopic 2010 90 mins Clio Barnard Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power You may never look at film the same way again after watching this illuminating journey, which deconstructs the male gaze in cinema. Documentary 2022 107 mins Nina Menkes Her Way From Cécile Ducrocq comes a bold, provocative drama starring an electric Laure Calamy as a single mother and sex worker in a desperate situation. Drama 2021 97 mins Cécile Ducrocq Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France. Romance 2019 121 mins Céline Sciamma Under the Skin Carine Adler’s sexy and dark debut, starring Samantha Morton in her first major feature film role. Melodrama 1997 83 mins Carine Adler Silver Haze Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight reunite for this daring drama about love, family and forgiveness, loosely inspired by Knight’s life. Drama 2023 103 mins Sacha Polak Red Road Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons. Thriller 2006 110 mins Andrea Arnold Little Joe Jessica Hausner’s cool, witty and unsettling sci-fi starring Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw. Science Fiction Horror 2019 105 mins Jessica Hausner Rosebud A lesbian couple arouse the interest of their new neighbour in this erotic tale of voyeurism, power dressing and fantasy. Drama 1991 14 mins Cheryl Farthing April A doctor in rural Georgia faces scrutiny after a baby dies during childbirth in this affecting and atmospheric abortion drama. Drama 2024 134 mins Dea Kulumbegashvili My Brother the Devil Sally El Hosaini's feature debut tells of the love and disenchantment of two British-Egyptian brothers as gangs, drugs and sexuality come between them. Drama 2012 107 mins Sally El Hosaini Me without You Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns. Drama 2001 103 mins Sandra Goldbacher The Juniper Tree A teenage Björk stars in this Brothers Grimm adaptation, which finds witchcraft thriving in the wilds of medieval Iceland. Fantasy 1991 79 mins Nietzchka Keene Gone Too Far! Riotous urban comedy adapted from the hit Royal Court play, about a Peckham teen affronted by the arrival of his long-lost Nigerian sibling. Comedy Drama 2014 88 mins Destiny Ekaragha Face Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone are members of a criminal gang that tears itself apart after a heist goes wrong, in Antonia Bird’s stylish thriller. Crime Gangster 1997 101 mins Antonia Bird Naked Acts Bridgett M. Davis’s comedy about an aspiring young Black actress who lands her first major role, but there’s a big problem: it requires a nude scene. Drama 1996 88 mins Bridgett M. Davis Romance Shockingly explicit, Catherine Breillat’s critically acclaimed Romance is one of the most controversial films of modern cinema. Drama 1999 98 mins Catherine Breillat Rare Beasts Billie Piper stars in her own directorial debut, a no-holds-barred, Fleabag-esque anti-romcom about a modern woman’s struggles in work and love. Drama Comedy 2021 92 mins Billie Piper Aniara The passengers on an interstellar space-liner are thrown into turmoil when their mission goes off course, in this compassionate and thought-provoking sci-fi drama. Science Fiction 2018 106 mins Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja In the Cut Jane Campion’s feminist erotic thriller starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo adds a frisson of dangerous sex to a murder investigation. Thriller 2003 119 mins Jane Campion Sex Is Comedy A director struggles to film a difficult sex scene with two actors who hate each other, in Catherine Breillat's exploration of intimacy coordination. Comedy Drama 2002 95 mins Catherine Breillat Audrey A frustrated stage mother exploits her star daughter’s coma for her own artistic gains, in this wickedly dark Australian comedy. Comedy 2024 96 mins Natalie Bailey Beautiful Thing Hettie MacDonald’s 1996 comedy tells the story of two classmates and neighbours who fall in love over one summer in South East London. Comedy 1996 91 mins Hettie Macdonald Cléo from 5 to 7 Agnes Varda’s classic character study follows a pop singer as she wanders around Paris awaiting the results of serious medical tests. Drama 1962 91 mins Agnès Varda The Love Witch A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in Anna Biller's outrageous tribute to 1960s Technicolor melodramas. Comedy Horror 2016 121 mins Anna Biller Rental films More from Woman with a Movie Camera in our Rentals collection Explore Rentals
The Assistant Kitty Green's #MeToo drama is a sobering take on life as a film company assistant. Thriller 2019 87 mins Kitty Green
Daughters of the Dust Dash’s groundbreaking Daughters of the Dust remains urgent and poetic and continues to resonate, inspiring Beyoncé’s iconic visual album Lemonade. Drama 1991 112 mins Julie Dash
The Eternal Daughter Joanna Hogg's enthralling ghost story, featuring an astonishing performance by her regular collaborator Tilda Swinton. Drama Horror 2021 96 mins Joanna Hogg
Palestine 36 Acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s most ambitious work is a powerful exploration of the events leading up to the Arab Revolt of 1936. Period drama 2025 120 mins Annemarie Jacir
The Ice Tower Marion Cotillard brings a thrilling magnetism to this snowbound tale of obsession and wish fulfilment between an actress and a young runaway. Fantasy 2025 117 mins Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Dreamers Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre. Drama 2025 79 mins Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
Deaf Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2025 Berlinale, Eva Libertad's debut film portrays a Deaf woman on the cusp of motherhood. Drama 2025 100 mins Eva Libertad
In My Skin Marina de Van’s deeply personal debut about a young woman's addiction to self-mutilation stretches the body horror genre in new ways. Drama 2002 95 mins Marina de Van
Skate Kitchen A timid Long Island skater-girl befriends a New York City-based skateboarding crew in Crystal Moselle's Sundance-nominated coming-of-age tale. Drama 2018 105 mins Crystal Moselle
Girls Girls Girls Three young women explore love and sex in this spirited coming-of-age drama, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance 2022. Romance 2021 101 mins Alli Haapasalo
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror. Drama 2025 113 mins Mary Bronstein
Together Two deaf-mute dock workers eke out a humble existence in London's East End in Lorenza Mazzetti's striking example of Free Cinema. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1956 51 mins Lorenza Mazzetti
There's Still Tomorrow Rome, 1946. A woman finds the courage to challenge her violent marriage and seek out a different future in Cortellesi's extraordinary, magical debut. Drama Period drama 2023 117 mins Paola Cortellesi
The Fight Jessica Hynes’ directorial debut is a life-affirming lesson in the importance of learning to stand up for yourself. Drama 2019 91 mins Jessica Hynes
Currently unavailable Power Alley Queer sisterhood and collective power lie at the heart of this arresting Brazilian debut, in which a promising volleyball player faces an unwanted pregnancy. Drama 2023 100 mins Lillah Halla
The Voice of Hind Rajab Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her. Drama-documentary Crime 2025 89 mins Kaouther Ben Hania
Cameraperson Existence is laid bare in Kristen Johnson’s soul-stirring portrait of human life, told through the eyes of a filmmaker's trusty camera. Documentary 2016 102 mins Kirsten Johnson
The Chronology of Water A woman battles addiction and abuse in Kristen Stewart’s uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression. Drama 2025 128 mins Kristen Stewart
Scrubbers 1980s borstal drama – billed as the female Scum – featuring Amanda York and Kathy Burke as inmates in a ruthless women’s prison. Drama 1982 93 mins Mai Zetterling
Brides Two British teenagers attempt to travel to Syria in this compassionate and thought-provoking road film, inspired by a true story. Drama 2024 92 mins Nadia Fall
Late Shift Gripping drama in which a nurse finds herself caught in a race against time during an unrelenting night shift. Drama 2025 91 mins Petra Volpe
Student Services A cash-strapped student becomes an escort exposing the stark realities of economic exploitation in this uncompromising gritty French drama. Drama Romance 2010 103 mins Emmanuelle Bercot
A Night of Knowing Nothing All We Imagine as Light director Payal Kapadia’s bold and distinctive feature debut explores the political climate of contemporary India. Drama-documentary 2021 99 mins Payal Kapadia
Ultras Forget the dramatic headlines and take a joyful deep dive into 'the world’s most popular subculture’: football’s infamous ultras. Documentary 2025 88 mins Ragnhild Ekner
Je tu il elle Akerman’s debut feature, with its 10-minute lesbian sex scene, revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema. Drama 1974 86 mins Chantal Akerman
Chocolat Claire Denis' fully formed debut offers a child’s-eye-view of racial and sexual tension that bubbles with unspoken desires. Drama 1988 100 mins Claire Denis
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Chantal Akerman's magnificent epic of experimental cinema offering a feminist perspective on recurrent events of everyday life. Drama 1975 202 mins Chantal Akerman
Little Trouble Girls A young girl experiences the turmoil of love and friendship in this nuanced coming-of-age tale with echoes of Céline Sciamma. Drama 2025 90 mins Urška Djukić
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning portrait of three women is a transcendent tale of love and sisterhood. Drama Romance 2024 118 mins Payal Kapadia
Santosh A housewife-turned-cop is sucked into a high-profile case that has polarised the local community in this taut, north India-set thriller. Drama 2023 128 mins Sandhya Suri
Beach Rats Gripping account of repressed sexual desire in a masculine environment, with British newcomer Harris Dickinson as a virulently macho Brooklyn teen. Drama 2017 98 mins Eliza Hittman
The Arbor Clio Barnard's film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar mixes reconstruction, interviews (performed by actors) and scenes from the plays. Biopic 2010 90 mins Clio Barnard
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power You may never look at film the same way again after watching this illuminating journey, which deconstructs the male gaze in cinema. Documentary 2022 107 mins Nina Menkes
Her Way From Cécile Ducrocq comes a bold, provocative drama starring an electric Laure Calamy as a single mother and sex worker in a desperate situation. Drama 2021 97 mins Cécile Ducrocq
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France. Romance 2019 121 mins Céline Sciamma
Under the Skin Carine Adler’s sexy and dark debut, starring Samantha Morton in her first major feature film role. Melodrama 1997 83 mins Carine Adler
Silver Haze Sacha Polak and Vicky Knight reunite for this daring drama about love, family and forgiveness, loosely inspired by Knight’s life. Drama 2023 103 mins Sacha Polak
Red Road Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons. Thriller 2006 110 mins Andrea Arnold
Little Joe Jessica Hausner’s cool, witty and unsettling sci-fi starring Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw. Science Fiction Horror 2019 105 mins Jessica Hausner
Rosebud A lesbian couple arouse the interest of their new neighbour in this erotic tale of voyeurism, power dressing and fantasy. Drama 1991 14 mins Cheryl Farthing
April A doctor in rural Georgia faces scrutiny after a baby dies during childbirth in this affecting and atmospheric abortion drama. Drama 2024 134 mins Dea Kulumbegashvili
My Brother the Devil Sally El Hosaini's feature debut tells of the love and disenchantment of two British-Egyptian brothers as gangs, drugs and sexuality come between them. Drama 2012 107 mins Sally El Hosaini
Me without You Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns. Drama 2001 103 mins Sandra Goldbacher
The Juniper Tree A teenage Björk stars in this Brothers Grimm adaptation, which finds witchcraft thriving in the wilds of medieval Iceland. Fantasy 1991 79 mins Nietzchka Keene
Gone Too Far! Riotous urban comedy adapted from the hit Royal Court play, about a Peckham teen affronted by the arrival of his long-lost Nigerian sibling. Comedy Drama 2014 88 mins Destiny Ekaragha
Face Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone are members of a criminal gang that tears itself apart after a heist goes wrong, in Antonia Bird’s stylish thriller. Crime Gangster 1997 101 mins Antonia Bird
Naked Acts Bridgett M. Davis’s comedy about an aspiring young Black actress who lands her first major role, but there’s a big problem: it requires a nude scene. Drama 1996 88 mins Bridgett M. Davis
Romance Shockingly explicit, Catherine Breillat’s critically acclaimed Romance is one of the most controversial films of modern cinema. Drama 1999 98 mins Catherine Breillat
Rare Beasts Billie Piper stars in her own directorial debut, a no-holds-barred, Fleabag-esque anti-romcom about a modern woman’s struggles in work and love. Drama Comedy 2021 92 mins Billie Piper
Aniara The passengers on an interstellar space-liner are thrown into turmoil when their mission goes off course, in this compassionate and thought-provoking sci-fi drama. Science Fiction 2018 106 mins Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
In the Cut Jane Campion’s feminist erotic thriller starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo adds a frisson of dangerous sex to a murder investigation. Thriller 2003 119 mins Jane Campion
Sex Is Comedy A director struggles to film a difficult sex scene with two actors who hate each other, in Catherine Breillat's exploration of intimacy coordination. Comedy Drama 2002 95 mins Catherine Breillat
Audrey A frustrated stage mother exploits her star daughter’s coma for her own artistic gains, in this wickedly dark Australian comedy. Comedy 2024 96 mins Natalie Bailey
Beautiful Thing Hettie MacDonald’s 1996 comedy tells the story of two classmates and neighbours who fall in love over one summer in South East London. Comedy 1996 91 mins Hettie Macdonald
Cléo from 5 to 7 Agnes Varda’s classic character study follows a pop singer as she wanders around Paris awaiting the results of serious medical tests. Drama 1962 91 mins Agnès Varda
The Love Witch A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in Anna Biller's outrageous tribute to 1960s Technicolor melodramas. Comedy Horror 2016 121 mins Anna Biller
