what to watch in 2020
for the month of march #womenoffilm edition
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the farewell
01 of 28 still to watchSummary: A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Lulu Wang
Starring: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo.
birds of prey
02 of 28 still to watchSummary: After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell.
daughters of the dust
03 of 28 rewatchSummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Julie Dash
Starring: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao.
alma's rainbow
04 of 28 watchedSummary: is a woman's coming-of-age story with a few twists. "Alma's Rainbow" describes a black girl growing up in Brooklyn with radically diverse role models to choose from. A sparkling performance from young Victoria Gabriella Platt keeps the comedy-drama lively, but real drawing card is it's realistic female p.o.v. on a black childhood.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Ayoka Chenzira
Starring: Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby.
chisholm '72: unbought and unbossed
05 of 28 watchedSummary: A documentary on Brooklyn-based Congresswoman Shirley's Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Shola Lynch
Starring: Shirley Chisholm, Walter Cronkite, George Wallace.
down in the delta
06 of 28 rewatchSummary: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also telling them about the generations of their family, the Sinclairs, dating back to their time in slavery before the the Civil War.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maya Angelou
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr., Esther Rolle, Wesley Snipes.
finding christa
07 of 28 still to watchSummary: A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Camille Billops, James Hatch
Starring: Camille Billops, Christa Victoria.
i like it like that
08 of 28 rewatchedSummary: Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has eyes on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette gets a good job uptown. Can this marriage be saved?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Darnell Martin
Starring: Luna Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Tomas Melly.
little woods
09 of 28 still to watchSummary: A modern Western about two sisters who work outside the law to better their lives.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Director: Nia DaCosta
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby.
Self Made: Inspired by...
10 of 28 in progressSummary: The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America's first female self-made millionaire.
Genre: Drama, Mini-series
Director: kasi lemmons
Starring: Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Blair Underwood.
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
11 of 28 watchedSummary: The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Angela Robinson
Starring: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote.
Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification
12 of 28 still to watchSummary: A short film veered on experimental direction, production, writing, and editing from Barbara McCullough. Her first film that pioneered experimental film making by an african-american woman. A young woman performs a special ceremony at a vacant lot, as a call back purification rituals.
Genre: Short
Director: Barbara McCullough
Starring: Yolanda Vidato.
the assistant
13 of 28 still to watchSummary: A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kitty Green
Starring: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Makenzie Leigh.
lost girls
14 of 28 still to watchSummary: When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Liz Garbus
Starring: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne.
cherish the day
15 of 28 in progressSummary: An anthology series with the start of the day and life of a couple in love.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Blitz Bazawule, Tanya Hamilton, Deborah Kampmeier, Aurora Guerrero
Starring: Alano Miller, Xosha Roquemore, Cicely Tyson.
the last thing he wanted
16 of 18 still to watchSummary: A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Dee Rees
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez.
Good Girls S3
17 of 28 in progressSummary: Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Various
Starring: Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman.
jezebel
18 of 28 still to watchSummary: In the last days of her mother's life, 19 year old Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her older sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of internet fetish cam girls.
Genre: Drama
Director: Numa Perrier
Starring: Tiffany Tenille, Numa Perrier, Brett Gelman.
troop zero
19 of 28 still to watchSummary: In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director: Bert & Bertie
Starring: Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan.
the photograph
20 of 28 watchedSummary: A series of intertwining love stories set in the past and in the present.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Stella Meghie
Starring: LaKeith Stanfield, Chelsea Peretti, Issa Rae.
knock down the house
21 of 28 rewatchSummary: A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Rachel Lears
Starring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Joe Crowley .
hustlers
22 of 28 watchedSummary: Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles .
clemency
23 of 28 still to watchSummary: As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge.
frozen ii
24 of 28 watchedSummary: Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck
Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad.
atlantics
25 of 28 still to watchSummary: In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mati Diop
Starring: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore.
can you ever forgive me
26 of 28 still to watchSummary: When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Director: Marielle Heller
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells.
briarpatch
27 of 28 in progressSummary: An investigator returns home to solve the death of her sister from a car-bombing. The search for a killer unravels a system of corruption in her small border town.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Andy Greenwald
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Jay R. Ferguson, Edi Gathegi.
high fidelity
28 of 28 still to watchSummary: A fan of music, pop culture and Top Five lists runs a local record store in her hometown. An adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel "High Fidelity".
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: various
Starring: Zoë Kravitz, Jake Lacy, Da'Vine Joy Randolph.