Gender Roles Movies

On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women.

Directed by Solveig Hoogesteijn, Macu, the Policeman's Woman (1987) is a Venezuelan crime drama based on a true story. The film follows Macu, a young...

How to ride a mechanical bull and not care that everyone is picturing you naked.

The film is set in a world where traditional gender roles between women and men are reversed. Bitirim Leyla and Sarı Leman are the tough,...

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...

Olle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle gets tricked by his lawyer and has to pay...

The story of two young single mothers who join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.

About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy...

A young woman forced by her family to study a major she doesn't want, finds her only escape in her passion for the sky while caught between economic...

An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world....

Growing up in 1950s England in an intolerant and uninformed world, young Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by wider...

A young man and woman on their first date with the traditional sex roles reversed. The woman calls for the man and seduces him. This non-explicit...

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society,...

Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry riddled with...

It's nighttime in 1980s Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Glittery and glamorous heels climb out of cars. Women shrouded in traditional black abayas make their...

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...

The documentary features conversations with women from different age groups about their experiences with marriage and pregnancy. Shot in Batman and...

Seven women and one non binary person share their personal experiences with masturbation through short anecdotes and a revolutionary washing machine.

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives...

Sara grew up in Yemen to a Yemeni father and a Scottish mother, and at age 17, finally decided to move to Scotland. Ten years later – 2011...