10 FILMS THAT TELL THE COURAGE OF WOMEN

Before reading the article, discover all the achievements made by women over time!

· 1. Erin Brockovich
· 2. Agora
· 3. Rosenstrasse
· 4. Winning Girls
· 5. The Purple Color
· 6. Giovanna D "Arco
· 7. The Help
· 8. The long way home
· 9. Norma Rae
· 10. Mona Lisa Smile

1. Erin Brockovich

Based on a true story, the film starring the talented Julia Roberts (who won the Oscar), tells the story of Erin, a precarious secretary who, driven by resourcefulness and a strong sense of justice, begins to investigate a electric company that appears to be guilty of contaminating the aquifers of a small town in California The film, nominated for 5 Academy Awards in 2001, is proof that a single voice can make a difference.

2. Agora

The film directed by Alejandro Aménabar and whose main protagonist is played by Rachel Weisz, tells, in fictional form, the life of the mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia, whose life ended violently with her murder. A film not to be missed to realize that the Scientific Revolution was also thanks to the contribution of a woman.

3. Rosenstrasse

Rosenstrasse is a 2003 film by director Margarethe von Trotta which takes its title from the name of a street in Berlin where, in 1943, hundreds of women demonstrated against the deportation of their husbands, obtaining their release. The film plays on the double strand of the past and the present, personified respectively by Ruth, the woman who lived the facts in first person, and who removed them, and her daughter, Hannah, who tries to reconstruct them thanks to the help of a woman who saved her mother in the past A delicate and painful theme like that of the fight against Nazism seen through female strength and courage.

4. Winning Girls

Girls winning is a 1992 film that tells the true story of a baseball championship that, in 1943, was all female due to the lack of men, all involved in the war. In order not to give up the championship of the much loved sport, the girls will have to face a difficult relationship with the coach and an audience that is not really in favor. In the cast we find Geena Davis and Tom Hanks.

5. The Purple Color

A film in which female courage is the real protagonist. Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Whoopi Goldberg, the film focuses on dramatic themes such as sexual abuse and racism, but above all on the courage that these women manage to find, despite everything.

6. Joan of Arc

The film, starring the great Ingrid Bergman, tells the story of the French heroine Giovanna D'Arco, from her quiet life in Domremy, through her exploits as head of the army to the violent end that sees her tormented and finally burned at the stake.

7. The Help

The Help is a 2011 film based on the novel written by Kathryn Stockett. The plot tells the story of Skeeter (Emma Stone), a young white girl who, after graduating from college, returns home to her parents, who are landowners in Mississippi. Unlike all her peers, the young woman's main interest is to fulfill herself at work. That's how she starts working at the city newspaper and, looking around, she decides to speak for all black women victims of racism, since all employed as housekeepers or "The Help." A voice that, from a small town, will go very far.

8. The long way home

The film, directed by Richard Pearce, tells of the historic bus boycott in the 1950s seen through the eyes of two women, played in the film by Whoopi Goldberg and Sissi Spacek.

9. Norma Rae

Norma Rae is a 1979 film by Martin Ritt, set in the small town of Alabama, in the deep south of the United States, which tells the courageous battle of a woman, determined to take the front line to change the difficult working conditions of the working class. and thus obtain the recognition of some fundamental rights. Starring an extraordinary Sally Field, who receives the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, the film is an eulogy of feminine idealism that translates into an extraordinary act of courage and freedom.

10. Mona Lisa Smile

The film, directed by Mike Newell, tells the story of a professor of "art history" of the 50s who, having arrived in a prestigious conservative and reactionary women's boarding school in California, tries to spread a new point of view that privileges freedom. and "female independence, freeing it from the" image in force at the time that identified the figure of the woman exclusively in married life and in the role of mother. breaking of pre-established schemes in the name of the conquest of freedom and self-affirmation.