Best movies like Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember Starring Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Saheb Bhattacharya, and more. If you liked Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember then you may also like: The Oklahoman, Rebel Hearts, Krush Groove, Banaz: A Love Story, Devi and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
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Rebel Hearts
A group of pioneering nuns bravely stand up to the Catholic Church patriarchy, fighting for their livelihoods, convictions and equality against an all-powerful Cardinal. From marching in Selma in 1965 to the Women’s March in 2018, these women have reshaped our society with their bold acts of defiance.
Krush Groove
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.
Banaz: A Love Story
This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family for choosing a life for herself.
Women Talking
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
A Master Builder
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Ruby Bridges
When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.
Derby Day
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
The World to Come
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
Suffragette
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Dying to Divorce
As rates of femicide and domestic abuse soar in Turkey and democratic rights for women are increasingly eroded, a lawyer and her clients bravely risk everything for their freedom by standing up to the government and putting violent men behind bars.
Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women
A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers, ...
Don't Bet on Women
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Fallon kiss her for 48 hours. Fallon takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Herbert's wife, Jeanne Drake...
Star Trek: Section 31
Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.
Florence Nightingale
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
The Bride Walks Out
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq's Secret Sex Trade
In this undercover investigation, Nawal al-Maghafi exposes a secret world of sexual exploitation in Iraq. Some Shia clerics are using a controversial practice called ‘pleasure marriage’ to groom vulnerable girls and young women and pimp them out.
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
It has been called "the saddest acre in America." It is also one of the most sacred. Section 60 in Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for young men and women who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. This emotional documentary filmed entirely in Section 60 provides intimate glimpses of family and friends who have come to honor their loved ones.
National Theatre Live: Prima Facie
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
The Colour Room
A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff roares to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
The Maria Orsic Story
Widely recognized as the inventor of earth's first flying saucer, as a woman Marija Oršić (1895-1945) struggled against discrimination to achieve an incredible technological feat which only today is being fully recognized. A famous medium, leader of the Vril Society, alleged partner to Nikola Tesla and admired by Adolf Hitler. Marija Oršić disappeared from the face of the earth in 1945.
Around the Block
A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
Ammachi Yemba Nenapu
Based on three short stories by the celebrated Kannada writer, Kendra Sahitya Academy awardee Dr. Vaidehi. With dialogue in the characteristic regional dialect of coastal Karnataka. Woman’s eternal striving for identity in a patriarchal society is told through the story of a young woman resisting being married off, an older woman gone mad after her husband left her and an older woman being indebted to a family who's matriarch took her in when she was left by her husband at a young age.
Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum
Three women, who belong to different walks of life, go through severe identity crisis because of the patriarchal system in their respective families. Set in three different time periods, the movie throws light on their helplessness and other myriad issues faced by these married women despite them having their life partners by their side.
Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti
The journey of acceptance and empowerment of a female priestess in a patriarchal world of Indian society
A Perfect 14
A Perfect 14 explores the fascinating world of plus-size models fighting to reshape the fashion industry and the beauty standards of society.
The American Society of Magical Negroes
A young man, Aren, is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people’s lives easier.
the film has been conceptualized as an apology letter to women from all sections of society, who have faced discrimination as well as have been victimized by both men and women in the patriarchal system.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember Starring Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Saheb Bhattacharya, and more. If you liked Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember then you may also like: The Oklahoman, Rebel Hearts, Krush Groove, Banaz: A Love Story, Devi and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
The Oklahoman
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.