#52 women-directed 2019

Adelaida, 17, lives in Bogotá with her parents. Together, they enjoy a comfortable family life. But cracks are beginning to show. Most of the housekeeping and parental duties fall onto Adelaida"s overworked mother, while she is at the peak of her teen angst, until tragedy strikes the family.

Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.

Willowdean ("Dumplin""), the plus-size teenage daughter of a former beauty queen, signs up for her mom"s Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow her footsteps, revolutionizing the pageant and their small Texas town.

An uptight and by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) tries to protect the outgoing widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer, gets a divorce that leaves her with terminal writer"s block and depression. Later, she decides to buy a house in Tuscany in order to change her life.

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet"s crooked boyfriend Caesar.

If a clock could count down to the moment you meet your soul mate, would you want to know?

A provocative but has-been TV host spends a bumpy reunion at a countryside party along with his ex-wife, his daughter, and his producer hiding his potential termination.

A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic sitcom Bewitched (1964).

Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.

An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

On a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, three teenagers in 80"s Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encounters. Long silent jungle sequences, a meditation on Mayan Archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe make Blondes in the Jungle at once an absurd comedy and a serious film about the possibility of spiritual growth in a world of instant gratification.

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not for life.

This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé"s celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.

Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in Argentina while the other one will try to come a step closer to the ocean. She travels to the Caribbean and the foreign makes her vulnerable. Then, the land is out of sight. On a sailing vessel she crosses the Atlantic Ocean. One wave follows the other, they never resemble. Thoughts go astray, time leaves the beaten track and the swell lulls to deep sleep. The sea takes over the narration. And when the other one reappears in it, the wind is still in her hair while the ground beneath her feet is solid. She returns and the one of them could ask: "Have you changed?"

A short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.

A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.

Two best friends grow up on the Isle of Wight and in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s.