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 empowering movies that inspire us.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 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!