Best movies directed by (actual) women

Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.

A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.

A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.

Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.

Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.

An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

A group of SoCal high school students would rather ignore their studies and instead indulge in their teenage distractions.

The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues.

A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.

A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

Three punk-loving New York City dudes need a change and drive a VW Beetle to California. After rednecks kill one of them in Arizona, they want justice. A cute girl helps them.

A socially-awkward but mechanically-gifted man becomes involved in a quirky, unconventional crime.

A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.