WGST Film Library

Women’s and Gender Studies Program Film Library

To loan a film, stop by 171A Fenton Hall with your Fredonia card.

Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.

Boys Don’t Cry

Director: Kimberly Peirce
Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.

Claire of the Moon (1992)

Director: Nicole Conn
Stars: Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith McDevitt
Female authors gather at a small northern coastal retreat to work on their writing skills. A first-time guest who lives for the moment finds herself struggling with her sexuality after discovering her roommate is a lesbian.

Cloudburst(2011)

Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Kristin Booth
A lesbian couple escape from their nursing home and head up to Canada to get married. Along the way, they pick up a young, male hitchhiker.

Dark Girls (2011)

Directors: D. Channsin Berry, Bill Duke
Stars: Stephanie A., Soren Baker, Joni Bovill
Documentary exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin color---particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.

Half the Sky (2012)

Director: Maro Chermayeff
Stars: America Ferrera, Nicholas Kristof, Diane Lane
HALF THE SKY is a passionate call-to-arms, urging us not only to bear witness to the plight of the world's women, but to help to transform their oppression into opportunity. Our future is in the hands of women everywhere.

I Can’t Think Straight (2008)

Director: Shamim Sarif
Stars: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Antonia Frering
A 2008 romance film adapted from a same name novel 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.

The Invisible War (2012)

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca
An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

Director: Katja von Garnier
Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston
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.

Miss Representation (2011)

Directors: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Kimberlee Acquaro
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

Director: Mary Harron
Stars: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer
The story of Bettie Page, uber-successful 1950's pin-up model, one of the first sex icons in America, and the target of a Senate investigation (based on her bondage photos).

Period: The End of Menstruation? (2006)

Director: Giovanna Chesler
Stars: Terri Kapsalis, Kami Mcbride, Truong Sisters
If you could stop your period, would you? Western women may be bleeding more than necessary and pills and shots could be the answer. This documentary film considers menstrual suppression in all of its complexity, revealing the medical and cultural implications of this trend.

Red Without Blue (2007)

Director: Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, Todd Sills
Stars: Clair Farley, Jennie Farley, Mark Oliver Farley
The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.

Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s “Dinner Party” (1980)

Director: Johanna Demetrakas
Stars: Judy Chicago
Right out of History reveals the behind-the scenes drama Judy Chicago’s artistic community of women that has created a symbolic history of women’s achievements.

Romeos (2011)

Director: Sabine Bernardi
Stars: Rick Okon, Maximilian Befort, Liv Lisa Fries
A drama centered on the relationship between a young man and a transsexual who is transitioning from female to male.

Trans America (2005)

Director: Duncan Tucker
Stars: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan
A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

VDAY: Until the Violence Stops (2003)

Director: Abby Epstein
Stars: Tantoo Cardinal, Rosario Dawson, Eve Ensler
A documentary on V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.

Weekend (2011)

Director: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

The Women

Director: George Cukor
Starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.

The World Unseen (2007)

Director:Shamim Sarif
Stars: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Parvin Dabas
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.