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Widows and Thelma And Louise
Bonnie And Clyde
(Country: US; Year: 1967; Director: Arthur Penn; Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne; Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle)
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
It Happened One Night
(Country: US; Year: 1934; Director: Frank Capra; Writer: Robert Riskin, Samuel Hopkins Adams; Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas)
A renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops
Julia
(Country: US; Year: 1977; Director: Fred Zinnemann; Writer: Alvin Sargent, based on the short story by Lillian Hellman; Stars: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximillian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep, Dora Doll)
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
The Piano
(Country: Australia, New Zealand, France; Year: 1993; Director: Jane Campion; Writer: Jane Campion; Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin)
A mute woman in an arranged marriage makes a dangerous bargain in an attempt to retrieve her stranded piano.
Pierrot Le Fou
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1965; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Rémo Forlani, Jean-Luc Godard, Lionel White; Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Aicha Abadir, Henri Attal, Pascal Aubier, Maurice Auzel, Raymond Devos, Roger Dutoit, Samuel Fuller, Pierre Hanin, Jimmy Karoubi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hans Meyer, Krista Nell)
A man runs away with his babysitter and the pair of them go on the run.
The Piano and Vagabond
Roman Holiday
(Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: William Wyler; Writer: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter; Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams), Trailer
A journalist falls in love with a beautiful stranger without realising she's a princess.
The Sugarland Express
(Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Steven Spielberg; Writer: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, Steven Spielberg; Stars: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott)
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.
Thelma And Louise
(Country: US, France; Year: 1991; Director: Ridley Scott; Writer: Callie Khouri; Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Stephen Tobolowsky, Timothy Carhart, Lucinda Jenney, Jason Beghe), Official Site
Two women go on the run when a road-trip vacation goes tragically wrong...
Vagabond
(Country: France; Year: 1985; Director: Agnès Varda; Writer: Agnès Varda; Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti, Urbain Causse, Christophe Alcazar, Dominique Durand, Joël Fosse, Patrick Schmit, Daniel Bos, Katy Champaud, Raymond Roulle, Henri Fridlani, Patrick Sokol, Pierre Imbert)
After a woman's body is found in a ditch, we see her final weeks unfold.
Widows
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2018; Director: Steve McQueen; Writer: Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen, Lynda La Plante; Stars: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Debicki, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Jon Bernthal, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert Duvall, Garret Dillahunt, Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Lukas Haas, Jacki Weaver, Brian Tyree Henry, Kevin J. O'Connor, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo)
Women left in debt by their dead husbands' crimes conspire to pull off a heist.
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