1980s feminist films

1986 film by James Cameron

Tootsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal and a story by Gelbart and Don McGuire. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.

1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino

1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1988 film by Mike Nichols

1988 film by Jonathan Kaplan

1988 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1987 film directed by Percy Adlon

Sexmission () is a 1984 Polish politically satirical cult comedy science fiction action film. It was directed by Juliusz Machulski based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Jolanta Hartwig and Pavel Hajný. Sexmission has earned the title of a cult film over time, although due to the film's association of women's emancipation with the communist dictatorship of the era of the Polish People's Republic, it was the subject of feminist criticism.

Heathers is a 1989 American teen satirical black comedy crime film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. The plot revolves around four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of Jason "J.D." Dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

1980 film directed by Colin Higgins

1983 film directed by Barbra Streisand

1985 film directed by Agnès Varda

1988 French drama film

1981 film by Abel Ferrara

1982 film by Amy Holden Jones

1985 film directed by Lisa Gottlieb

1985 film by Ketan Mehta

1989 film by Jeff Kanew

1982 film by Robert Altman

1980 film by Claudia Weill

1989 film by Jane Campion

1983 film by Lizzie Borden

1987 film by Patricia Rozema

1983 film by Ulli Lommel

1982 film by Marleen Gorris

1988 film by Aruna Raje

1985 film directed by Kenneth Hartford

1982 film by Jean-Claude Lord

1986 Tamil film directed by Mani Ratnam

1984 film by Heiny Srour

1987 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander