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American feminist comedy films

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Barbie
2023 film directed by Greta Gerwig
Tootsie
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.
10 Things I Hate About You
1999 film directed by Gil Junger
Lady Bird
2017 film directed by Greta Gerwig
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953 film by Howard Hawks
Legally Blonde
2001 film directed by Robert Luketic
The Princess Diaries
2001 film directed by Garry Marshall
Ocean's 8
2018 film by Gary Ross
She's the Man
2006 film by Andy Fickman
Ghostbusters
2016 film by Paul Feig
Persepolis
2007 animated film by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Working Girl
1988 film by Mike Nichols
Easy A
2010 film by Will Gluck
Promising Young Woman
2020 film directed by Emerald Fennell
The Heat
2013 film directed by Paul Feig
The Other Woman
2014 American film directed by Nick Cassavetes
Practical Magic
1998 film directed by Griffin Dunne
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui
The Stepford Wives
2004 film by Frank Oz
Charlie's Angels
2019 film directed by Elizabeth Banks
Adam's Rib
1949 film by George Cukor
Woman of the Year
1942 film by George Stevens
Battle of the Sexes
2017 film directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
The First Wives Club
1996 film by Hugh Wilson
Bring It On
2000 film directed by Peyton Reed
20th Century Women
2016 film by Mike Mills
9 to 5
1980 film directed by Colin Higgins
Emma
1996 film directed by Douglas McGrath
Private Benjamin
1980 film by Howard Zieff
Hustlers
2019 film directed by Lorene Scafaria
An Unmarried Woman
1978 film by Paul Mazursky
Like a Boss
2020 film by Miguel Arteta
Grandma
2015 film by Paul Weitz
Teeth
2007 film by Mitchell Lichtenstein
I Don't Know How She Does It
2011 film by Douglas McGrath
Nightbitch
2024 film directed by Marielle Heller
Damsel
2018 film directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
Life-Size
Life-Size is a 2000 American fantasy comedy television film directed by Mark Rosman and starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks. It originally premiered on March 5, 2000, on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney block. Lohan portrays a young girl who casts a magic spell to bring back her deceased mother and, instead, accidentally brings to life her fashion doll, played by Banks. The film then follows their relationship as the doll creates havoc while trying to fit into the real world.
All I Wanna Do
1998 film by Sarah Kernochan
Unpregnant
Unpregnant is a 2020 American female buddy road comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, based on the novel of the same name by Ted Caplan and Jenni Hendriks. It stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira, with Alex MacNicoll, Breckin Meyer, Giancarlo Esposito, Sugar Lyn Beard, and Betty Who.
Damsels in Distress
2011 film by Whit Stillman
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947 American musical comedy film directed by George Seaton
Just One of the Guys
1985 film directed by Lisa Gottlieb
The Love Witch
2016 film by Anna Biller
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
1993 film by Christopher Guest
Troop Beverly Hills
1989 film by Jeff Kanew
It's My Turn
1980 film by Claudia Weill
Girlfriends
1978 film by Claudia Weill
Support the Girls
2018 film directed by Andrew Bujalski