As of May 5, 2026. Curated by Mihir Nanda, extracted from here. This list ranks underseen narrative feature films by women directors or co-directors by average member rating. The ‘underseen’ metric refers to films below the ratings threshold of the official top 250 films by women directors list.
Changes from the latest update:
In:
The Invite (at #3)
A Woman's Revenge (at #48)
Memories of a Burning Body (at #49)
Cherry Blossoms (at #50)
Out:
given the Movie : To the Sea (was #3)
Stormskerry Maja (was #19)
A Place for Her (was #27)
Blue Heron (was #40)
Eligibility rules:
• The threshold is no less than 1,000 ratings and no more than 5,000 ratings.
• Women co-directors, transgender directors…
As of May 5, 2026. Curated by Mihir Nanda, extracted from here. This list ranks underseen narrative feature films by women directors or co-directors by average member rating. The ‘underseen’ metric refers to films below the ratings threshold of the official top 250 films by women directors list.
Changes from the latest update:
In:
The Invite (at #3)
A Woman's Revenge (at #48)
Memories of a Burning Body (at #49)
Cherry Blossoms (at #50)
Out:
given the Movie : To the Sea (was #3)
Stormskerry Maja (was #19)
A Place for Her (was #27)
Blue Heron (was #40)
Eligibility rules:
• The threshold is no less than 1,000 ratings and no more than 5,000 ratings.
• Women co-directors, transgender directors and gender expansive directors are included.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes long) with a festival premiere, theatrical distribution, or professional streaming release.
• This list excludes: documentaries of any kind, DTV films, self-released web videos, recap or recut films, theatre or stage shows, TV series, specials or episodes. TV movies are included.
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