On New Year’s holidays it’s so nice to do nothing but salads and tasty treats and watch interesting films.
Therefore, in this collection I suggest checking out film projects in which the female character turned out to be so charismatic and significant that many men could not even dream of.
In all cases, preference is given to viewing, and if you have already seen some films, you have time to watch them again before the end of the New Year holidays. Still, this is not a modern filmmaking for you, but time-tested masterpieces of world civilization.
Enjoy:
1. Silence of the Lambs (Silence of the Lambs)
Genre: thriller, detective, crime, drama, horror
Year of manufacture: 1990
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.30 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Brooke Smith, Scott Glenn
About what: a cannibal maniac with the habits of a gentleman helps the investigator catch another maniac
A psychopath is abducting and killing young women throughout the American Midwest. The FBI, confidently asserting that all criminals commit the same person, instructs agent Clarice Starling to meet with a maniac prisoner who could explain to the investigation the psychological motives of serial killers and thereby lead him to the trail.
The prisoner, psychiatry doctor Hannibal Lecter, experiences death and cannibalism. He agrees to help Clarissa only if she indulges his sick imagination by describing in detail her personal life. Such ambiguous relationships not only play a role in Clarissa’s internal conflict, but also push her face to face with a killer incomprehensible to the point of genius.
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2. Alien (Alien)
Genre: horror, fantasy, thriller
Year of manufacture: 1979
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.1 (KinoPoisk)
Country: UK, USA
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Harry Dinanton
About what: The crew of a cargo spaceship encountered an alien, extremely bloodthirsty race of monsters.
In the distant future, a cargo spaceship returning to Earth intercepts a signal coming from the planet. The crew, to the best of their abilities, must locate and locate the source of the signal.
Once on the planet, the astronauts discover objects around them, like giant cocoons.
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3. Edge of Tomorrow (Edge of Tomorrow)
Genre: fantasy, action
Year of manufacture: 2014
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.9 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson
About what: A soldier gets stuck in a time loop during a war with aliens.
In the near future, a race of aliens is trading on Earth. No army in the world can help them. Major William Cage dies in battle, but the impossible happens – he finds himself in a time loop.
Over and over again he appears in the same fighter, fights and dies again and again. And each repeated reflection led him to a solution to how to defeat the enemy.
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4. GI Jane
Genre: action, drama, war
Year of manufacture: 1997
Viewer rating: ⭐️ 7.20 (IMDb)
Country: USA, UK
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Daniel von Bargen
About what: a woman proves that she is capable of serving in the army on an equal basis with men.
Lieutenant Jordan O’Neal becomes the first to lead an elite women’s program for military personnel at the Catalano Training Center in Florida.
The best representatives of the US Army special forces are selected here. 60% of them do not survive this hell. A woman goes to a harsh school for survival and destruction and must find a solution for herself, first of all, that she can withstand and not be destroyed.
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5. Erin Brockovich
Genre: drama, biography
Year of manufacture: 2000
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.9 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Coyote, Cherry Jones
About what: A single mother overcomes all obstacles on the path to her cherished happiness.
The story of Erin Brockovich, a single woman with children, life rarely indulged in bright days. For people like her, there is no career advancement, only a modest job in a small law firm.
But for a self-confident beauty who does not mince words, one insignificant chance is enough to radically change her destiny. Her beauty and charm have helped her achieve unprecedented success, but now Erin needs incredible care to bring her case to court.
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6. Kill Bill (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Genre: action, thriller, crime
Year of manufacture: 2003
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Julie Dreyfuss, Chiaki Kuriyama
About what: The miraculously surviving heroine methodically destroys everyone involved in the murder of her groom and guests at the wedding ceremony.
A pregnant assassin known as the Black Mamba is shot by a man named Bill during a wedding. But the woman’s head turned out to be solid – after lying in a coma for four years, the former bride comes to her senses.
She is eager to find the traitors. Now only ruthless revenge calms the Black Mamba’s heart, and she begins to beat up the men of Bill’s gang in line, deciding to leave the leader for last.
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7. Diana Nayed (Nyad)
Genre: drama, biography, sports
Year of manufacture: 2023
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cast: Annette Benting, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans, Luke Cosgrove, Gina E.
About what: Professional swimmers have a nearly impossible goal in mind for their 60th birthday.
The film tells the true story of Diana Nayed, who decides to fulfill her long-awaited dream: to swim 177 kilometers in the open sea from Cuba to Florida without any protection from sharks.
True, she plans to do this on the eve of her 60th birthday. Diana is helped in achieving the record by her friend and coach Bonnie Stoll.
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8. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Genre: drama, crime
Year of release: 2017
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.1 (KinoPoisk)
Country: UK, USA
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Lucas Hedges, Caleb Landry Jones
About what: a dramatic story about a desperate mother who lost her child.
Months after the murder, Mildred Hayes’s daughter was still missing. A desperate woman decides to take a bold step – she rents three billboards at the entrance to the city and leaves a message from police chief William Willoughby on them.
When Deputy Dixon, a childish mama’s boy with a penchant for violence, is also drawn into the situation, the struggle between Mildred and the city authorities only gets worse.
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9. Arrival (Arrival)
Genre: fantasy, drama, detective
Year of manufacture: 2016
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.6 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien
About what: A talented linguist studies the alien language to save the Earth.
The unexpected appearance of unidentified flying objects in different parts of the planet leaves the world in awe. The aliens’ intentions are not brilliant – the armed forces of the whole world are demonstrating full combat readiness, and the best minds of humanity are trying to figure out how to talk to uninvited tourists.
The government turns to linguist Louise Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly for help to prevent a global catastrophe and find a common language with the aliens. From now on, the fate of humanity is in their hands.
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10. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes)
Genre: fantasy, action, thriller, drama, adventure
Year of manufacture: 2023
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.3 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Tom Blythe, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andres Rivera, Jason Schwartzman
About what: a prequel to a dystopian distribution about a harsh future in which representatives of different districts participate in a “battle royale.”
Before becoming the autocratic President of Panem, young Coriolanus Snow was the last hope of his fading line – a once-great dynasty that had fallen out of favor in the post-war Capitol. On the eve of the tenth annual Hunger Games, Snow is mentored by District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird.
The girl’s success attracts more and more attention from Panem, becoming the favorite in the upcoming competition. Ready to do anything to restore his family to its former greatness, Snow decides to change the situation with Lucy in her favor and not only win the upcoming competition.
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