movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 22

Five Feet Apart Haley Lu Richardson

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male director, male screenwriter, female protagonist
Us
Lupita Nyong’o stars in this mystery horror thriller about a family under siege from their doppelgängers. Costarring Elisabeth Moss and Shahadi Wright Joseph. (male writer-director)
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female director, female screenwriter, female protagonist
The Crossing (Guo Chun Tian)
Bai Xue writes and directs this Chinese crime drama about a teenaged girl (Huang Yao) who smuggles contraband across the border from Hong Kong.
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male director, female coscreenwriter, female protagonist
Five Feet Apart [pictured]
Mikki Daughtry cowrites this romantic drama about a teenaged girl with cystic fibrosis (Haley Lu Richardson) navigating a romance with another CF patient. (male director)
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male director, female coscreenwriter, female protagonist
The Journey
Isabelle Stead cowrites this Iraqi-Dutch drama about a female suicide bomber (Zahraa Ghandour). (male director)
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