It’s not just the volume and range of films centered on female characters. It’s also a shift in consciousness that has made feminist concerns mainstream.

Anna Kendrick stars in a drama about a woman in an abusive relationship who finds refuge with two girlfriends during a getaway.

In this brutal Icelandic drama, four teenagers — both bullies and the bullied — struggle and rage against a world that rages back.

The animal, reared in a circus, enters into a forest and a world of wild animals. For the first and only time in the movie,…

This documentary follows a couple’s efforts to reintroduce an ocelot, headed to a zoo or worse, into its home in the Peruvian Amazon.

A transfixing Vicky Krieps plays the Empress of Austria who, at 40, begins to chafe against her predictably cosseted life.

Damien Chazelle directs Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva in a 1920s story about Hollywood’s good and sometimes very bad old days.

In this wistful movie, the French writer and Nobel laureate revisits her life with help from her son, who’s also the director.

Mia Hansen-Love directs Léa Seydoux in a delicate look at a mother, daughter and lover whose quotidian existence is instantly recognizable yet sublime.

This quirky classic has been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into an ill-conceived metaphor about fascism.