Five Girls and a Rope (1990)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 2H 3M
Director : Hung-Wei Yeh
Escritor : Hung-Wei Yeh
Sinopse
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
Uma disputa de tênis entre o ex-campeão Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) e a líder da classificação mundial Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) se torna centro de um debate global sobre igualdade de gêneros. Presos sob a atenção da mídia e com ideologias diferentes, Riggs tenta reviver as glórias do passado, enquanto King questiona sua sexualidade e luta pelos direitos das mulheres.
Tudo que Abby Johnson sempre quis foi ajudar outras mulheres. Como uma das diretoras mais jovens da história da Paternidade Planejada, organização responsável por metade dos abortos realizados nos Estados Unidos, ela acreditava ter feito a escolha certa. Até o dia em que algo que Abby viu fez com que tudo mudasse e ela se tornasse uma das principais vozes do movimento pró-vida dos Estados Unidos.
O nobre Orlando é condenado pela rainha Elizabeth I a permanecer eternamente jovem. A maldição se cumpre e Orlando atravessa os séculos experimentando vidas, parceiros, sentimentos e mudanças de gênero.
As operárias da fábrica da Ford de Dagenham vivenciam uma rotina desgastante de trabalho, atrelada a condições precárias e longas jornadas. O basta vem em 1968 quando são classificadas como não qualificadas. Motivadas por Rita O’Grady, as mulheres passam a reivindicar a igualdade de direitos em relação aos salários e o fim da discriminação sexual. Inicialmente direcionada aos patrões, a manifestação se volta contra o governo em uma luta que foi fundamental para que o parlamento britânico consolidasse o Projeto de Paridade Salarial em 1970.
Suíça, 1971: Nora é uma jovem dona de casa e mãe que vive com o marido e seus dois filhos em uma pequena vila pacífica. Aqui, no campo suíço, pouco ou nada se sente das grandes revoltas sociais que o movimento de maio de 1968 causou. A vida de Nora, também, não foi afetada; ela é uma pessoa reservada, calma, muito querida por todos - até quando ela começou a fazer ativamente campanha publica pelo direito de voto das mulheres, uma questão que será colocada diante dos eleitores do sexo masculino em 7 de fevereiro de 1971.
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces. This movement became national, and is a largely forgotten story of U.S. twentieth century history. It encapsulates a unique intersection of the women’s movement with the labor movement. The awareness these secretaries brought to bear on women’s work reverberates even today. Clericals were the low-wage workers of their era. America now confronts the growing reality of deep income inequality. The stories and strategies of these bold, creative women resonates in contemporary America.
Veja entrevistas com alunas da primeira escola de condutoras da Arábia Saudita e as tensões de um país em luta por mais igualdade de gênero.
On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest. Within hours, images of her dying moments, captured on cell phones, appeared on computer screens across the world, focusing the world's attention on mass protests against the rigged elections in Iran. Featuring previously unseen footage of Neda with friend and family, as well as exclusive video of her recorded the day she died, "For Neda" debuts just before the anniversary of her death.
Um relato em primeira pessoa da luta da seleção feminina de futebol dos Estados Unidos para conseguir igualdade salarial
em um esforço em nome de todas as mulheres para nivelar o campo de jogo e gerar uma mudança social duradoura.
Tennis star and women’s rights activist Billie Jean King won a total of 12 Grand Slam titles, but the biggest match of her career took place in 1973 against former men’s champion Bobby Riggs, a self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig who declared that, even at the age of 55, he could beat any woman in the world.
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives.
Em Tel Aviv, a jovem Shira está prestes a casar com um rapaz de boas famílias, por quem ela está apaixonada. No entanto, pouco antes do casamento, Esther, a irmã mais velha, morre durante o parto. Agora a preocupação da família é encontrar uma nova noiva para Yochay, o viúvo de Esther. Com medo de ver o genro e o neto deixar o país, a família de Shira prepara um outro plano: desfazer o casamento de Shira e obrigá-la a casar com Yochay.
Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.
Buscando refúgio em uma ilha no norte do estado de Nova York, a última tentativa de um casal de salvar seu relacionamento fracassado piora quando o marido começa a regredir emocional, mental e fisicamente.
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.
Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
This film shows the work done by the "socorristas" feminist network. Through informative talks and stories about the actions of emotional containment these women have with others who need support, it seeks to eliminate the stigmas on abortions while also bringing out the reality of the clandestine abortion.
Colometa is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another.
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.