Selected Films

Our Top Choices

    

 

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Women in Europe in Films by Time Period

Selection by Dr. Karen Hagemann

 

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18th Century (1750-1815)

• Barry Lyndon (Director: Stanley Kubrick. USA, 1975), IMDb
  
• Marie Antoinette (Director: Sofia Coppola. USA, 2006), IMDb
  

 

19th Century (1815-1914)

• The Marquise of O (Director: Eric Rohmer. West Germany, 1976), IMDb
  
• The Duchess (Director: Saul Dibb. UK, 2008), IMDb
  
• Emma (Director: Douglas McGrath. USA, 1996), IMDb
  
• Les Miserables (Director: Bille August. USA, 1998), IMDb
  
• Mansfield Park (Director: Patricia Rozema. UK, 1999), IMDb
  
• Pride and Prejudice (Director: Simon Langton. UK, 1995), IMDb
  
• Sense and Sensibility (Director: Ang Lee. USA, 1995), IMDb
  
• The Young Victoria (Director: Jean-Marc Valle. UK, 2009), IMDb
  
• Vanity Fair (Director: Mira Nair. UK, 2004), IMDb
  
• A Doll’s House (Director: Patrick Garland. UK, 1973), IMDb
  
• Mrs. Brown (Director: John Madden. UK, 1997), IMDb
  

 

20th Century (1914-1980)

Age of the World Wars

• A very long engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) (Director: Jean Pierre Jeunet. France, 2004), IMDb
  
• Aimee & Jaguar (Director: Max Färberböck. Germany, 1999), IMDb
• Atonement (Director: Joe Wright. USA, 2007), IMDb
• Bent (Director: Sean Mathias. USA, 1997), IMDb
• Black Book (Director: Paul Verhoeven. Germany, 2006), IMDb
• The Blue Angel (Director: Josef von Sternberg. Germany, 1930), IMDb
• Brideshead Revisited (Director: Julian Jarold. USA, 2008), IMDb
• Cassablanca (Director: Michael Curtiz. USA, 1942), IMDb
• Charlotte Grey (Director: Gillian Armstrong. UK, 2001), IMDb
• Chocolat (Director: Lasse Hallström. USA, 2000), IMDb
• Coco Avant Chanel (Director: Anne Fountain. France, 2009), IMDb
• The Downfall of Berlin: Anonyma  (Director: Färberböck, Max. Germany, 2008), IMDb
• Enigma (Director: Michael Apted. UK, 2001), IMDb
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (Director: Sam Wood. USA, 1943), IMDb
• Hope and Glory (Director: John Boorman. USA, 1987), IMDb
• The Hours (Director: Stephen Daldry. USA, 2001), IMDb
• La Vie en Rose (Director: Olivier Dahan. France, 2007), IMDb
• Mrs. Miniver (Director: William Wyler. USA, 1942), IMDb
• The Painted Veil (Director: John Curren. USA, 2006), IMDb
• Rosa Luxemburg (Director: Margarethe von Trotta. West Germany, 1986), IMDb
• Rosenstrasse (Director: Margarethe von Trotta. Germany, 2003), IMDb
• Sophie Scholl (Director: Marc Rothemund. Germany, 2005), IMDb
• Suffragette (Director: Sarah Gavron. Britain, 2015), IMDb
• Story of Women (Une Affaire de femmes) (Director: Claude Chabrol.  France, 1988), IMDb
• A Testament of Youth (Director: James Kent. Britain, 2014), IMDb

Cold War Period

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Director: Uli Edel. Germany, 2008), IMDb
• Vera Drake (Director: Mike Leigh. UK, 2004), IMDb
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (Director: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, West Germany, 1979), IMDb
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Director: Volker Schlöndorff, West Germany, 1975), IMDb
• Murderers Among Us (Director: Wolfgang Staudte. Germany, 1946), IMDb
• The Queen (Director: Stephan Frears. UK, 2006), IMDb
• Veronika Voss (Director: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, West Germany, 1982), IMDb