Best Woman Director Movies & TV Shows

Loki

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

Stars: Eugene Cordero Ke Huy Quan Owen Wilson Sophia di Martino Tom Hiddleston Wunmi Mosaku

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

Run time: 113m Tagline: Everything is under control. Release: 2025-10-10

Stars: A$AP Rocky Christian Slater Conan O'Brien Danielle Macdonald Delaney Quinn Ivy Wolk Manu Narayan Mark Stolzenberg Mary Bronstein Rose Byrne

Hamnet

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Run time: 126m Tagline: Keep your heart open. Release: 2025-11-26

Stars: David Wilmot Emily Watson Jacobi Jupe Jessie Buckley Joe Alwyn Justine Mitchell Louisa Harland Noah Jupe Olivia Lynes Paul Mescal

The Bride!

A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.

Run time: 126m Tagline: Here comes the mother f*%#ing bride! Release: 2026-03-04

Stars: Annette Bening Christian Bale Jake Gyllenhaal Jeannie Berlin Jessie Buckley John Magaro Matthew Maher Penélope Cruz Peter Sarsgaard Zlatko Burić

Babygirl

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Run time: 115m Tagline: Get exactly what you want. Release: 2024-12-25

Stars: Antonio Banderas Esther-Rose McGregor Gaite Jansen Harris Dickinson Leslie Silva Molly Price Nicole Kidman Sophie Wilde Vaughan Reilly Victor Slezak

Timestalker

A karmic journey that sees the hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.

Run time: 90m Tagline: Love isn't dead. Release: 2024-10-11

Stars: Alice Lowe Aneurin Barnard Dan Renton Skinner Jacob Anderson Kate Dickie Mike Wozniak Nick Frost Tanya Reynolds

Venom: The Last Dance

Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.

Run time: 0m Tagline: 'Til death do they part. Release: 2024-10-23

Stars: Alanna Ubach Chiwetel Ejiofor Clark Backo Cristo Fernández Juno Temple Norman Reedus Peggy Lu Rhys Ifans Stephen Graham Tom Hardy

Lee

The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Run time: 117m Tagline: Some wounds you cannot see. Release: 2024-09-12

Stars: Alexander Skarsgård Andrea Riseborough Andy Samberg Arinzé Kene Enrique Arce Josh O'Connor Kate Winslet Marion Cotillard Noémie Merlant Vincent Colombe

The Substance

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

Run time: 141m Tagline: If you follow the instructions, what could go wrong? Release: 2024-09-07

Stars: Axel Baille Demi Moore Dennis Quaid Gore Abrams Hugo Diego Garcia Jiselle Burkhalter Margaret Qualley Olivier Raynal Tiffany Hofstetter Tom Morton

My Old Ass

An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what's becoming a transformative summer.

Run time: 89m Tagline: What would you ask your older self? Release: 2024-09-13

Stars: Alain Goulem Alexandria Rivera Aubrey Plaza Carter Trozzolo Kerrice Brooks Maddie Ziegler Maisy Stella Maria Dizzia Percy Hynes White Seth Isaac Johnson

The Outrun

Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona – now 30 – attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

Run time: 117m Release: 2024-08-02

Stars: Izuka Hoyle Lauren Lyle Nabil Elouahabi Naomi Wirthner Paapa Essiedu Posy Sterling Saoirse Ronan Saskia Reeves Stephen Dillane Tony Hamilton

Causeway

A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.

Run time: 96m Tagline: Begin again. Release: 2022-10-28

Stars: Brian Tyree Henry Frederick Weller Jayne Houdyshell Jennifer Lawrence Linda Emond Neal Huff Russell Harvard Sean Carvajal Stephen McKinley Henderson Will Pullen

Priscilla

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

Run time: 110m Tagline: Wife to the king. Icon to the world. Destined for more. Release: 2023-10-27

Stars: Ari Cohen Cailee Spaeny Dagmara Dominczyk Dan Abramovici Dan Beirne Jacob Elordi Lynne Griffin Matthew Shaw Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll Tim Post