100 Empowering Movies For Women

A few weeks ago, we reached out to our followers on social media about movies that empower women. This was all inspired by a recent viewing of The First Wives Club, so it’s fitting that it is our number one pick. After taking your responses, along with suggestions from the Sass team (and a long discussion on how to rank them), we have compiled 100 movies that inspire us.
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- Lemonade (2016)**
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1997)
- Enough (2002)
- Winter’s Bone (2010)
- Princess Diaries (2001)
- The Post (2017)
- Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
- All About Eve (1950)
- The Witch (2015)
- Precious (2009)
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Practical Magic (1998)
- Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991)
- Joy (2015)
- Amélie (2001)
- Chicago (2002)
- The Craft (1996)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Brooklyn (2015)
- Orlando (1992)
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- Hairspray (2007)
- Now And Then
- Easy A (2010)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
- The Dutchess (2008)
- Real Women Have Curves (2002)
- GI Jane (1997)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
- The Runaways (2010)
- Lilo and Stitch (2002)
- Persepolis (2007)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- Gravity (2013)
- Divergent (2014)
- Girl Interrupted (1999)
- She’s The Man (2006)
- Spice World (1997)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- Monster (2003)
- Miss Congeniality (2000)
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- The Queen of Katwe (2016)
- Cold Mountain (2003)
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- Whale Rider (2002)
- Wrinkle in Time (2017)
- Iron Lady (2011)
- Evita (1996)
- Clueless (1995)
- North Country (2005)
- Stepmom (1998)
- Atomic Blonde (2017)
- Secret Life of Bees (2008)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Frida (2002)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Suffragette (2015)
- Little Women (1994)
- Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
- Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants (2005)
- Selena (1997)
- Devil Wears Prada (2006)
- Matilda (1996)
- Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
- Lady Bird (2017)
- Arrival (2016)
- The Intern (2015)
- Elizabeth (1998)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
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- Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
- The Queen (2006)
- Boys on the Side (1995)
- Working Girl (1988)
- Eat Pray Love (2010)
- The Banger Sisters (2002)
- Brave (2012)
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- Frozen (2013)
- Zoo Keeper’s Wife (2017)
- League of Their Own (1992)
- Hunger Games (2012)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Wild (2014)
- Black Panther (2017)
- Terminator 2 (1991)
- 9 to 5 (1980)
- Aliens (1986)
- The Help (2011)
- Erin Brockovich (2000)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
- Moana (2016)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- Legally Blonde (2001)
- Mulan (1998)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
- Hidden Figures (2016)
- First Wives Club (1996)
** While Lemonade is technically not a “movie,” the Queen B’s video opus from last year is so amazing and empowering, that the Sass Crew came to a conclusion that it would be remiss of us to not have it on this list.
What do you think? Did we miss anything? Or maybe you think a movie should be higher or lower on our list? Let us know in the comments!
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