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What are some action movies directed by women with female leads?

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I am doing a series of double features next month for Womens History month. A majority of the movies are directed by women with female leads (horror, comedy, and superhero) but I'm having a problem finding action movies.

I know there are plenty of awesome action movies with female leads , they are all on my list, but they are all directed by men.

Its for Womens History month so I would prefer to have the films be directed by women.

Posted Feb 18, 2020, 3:44 PM UTC

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nimbus_rose•

“Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” was directed by Cathy Yan, written by Christina Hodson, and has an almost all-female cast.

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TheCausality•

It's not a good movie though.

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nimbus_rose•

Agree to disagree.

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PhilRiversOnTrakt•

Here's a big list filtered down to just action movies and ordered by popularity: https://letterboxd.com/danadanger/list/directed-by-women/genre/action/by/popular/

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Inspace96OP•

Thank You!

This is perfect.

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PhilRiversOnTrakt•

Letterboxd lists & filters, a great duo.

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RandomStranger79•

Patty Jenkins directed Wonder Woman, and Kathryn Bigelow directed Zero Dark Thirty

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monstere316•

Hurt Locker was also Bigelow although I know a lot of veterans who hate that film. Also, no female lead. She also did Point Break.

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pantangeli•

Zero Dark Thirty is a pretty fantastic film. When it came out I think it was unfairly criticized for being too political. It's probably in my top 5 favorite war films since Saving Private Ryan.

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RandomStranger79•

I haven't seen it, but i hear good things. The last war movies I really enjoyed were Blackhawk Down and Rogue One.

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pantangeli•

Black Hawk Down is probably my favorite in the last 20 years or so. I was just going through a list and these are probably my top 5 since 2000:

Black Hawk Down

Zero Dark Thirty

Lone Survivor

We Were Soldiers

Downfall

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Predanther12•

Atomic Blonde was directed David Leitch

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kimare16•

First they killed my father. It's directed by Angelina Jolie

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hairbydinglehopper•

The new Charlie’s Angels, Elizabeth Banks directed.

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meowskywalker•

Tank Girl.

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Antman269•

Captain Marvel. It’s a fantastic movie. Don’t listen to what trolls say.

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monstere316•

Eh, I wouldn’t say fantastic it but not nearly as bad as trolls say. It’s same level as a phase 1 film.

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avengers4hype•

That's a compliment! Phase one was the best! Bad when every MCU movie now and then weren't bunch of 2 hour corporate mandated SNL sketches.

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Antman269•

Yeah. I never understood why everyone hates it.

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GeminiLeigh•

There are some interesting articles about fake reviews/ misogyny. Google Rotten tomato/Captain Marvel

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avengers4hype•

50% directed by woman but yeah..... You just jumped onto the battlefield without any weapons.....

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AnjaRMH•

The Spy Who Dumped Me is directed by Susanna Fogel.

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[deleted]•

Angry Birds

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Judge_Holden__•

Downvoted, stay classy reddit

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subbysouth•

Lady bird. Its on amazon watch it

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avengers4hype•

I forgot the part where Lady Bird fought bunch of henchmen with a sword or stuff life that?

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