15 Empowering Female Movies You Need To Watch!

There are many leading roles for women, but when it comes to empowering female roles these are the movies you need to see.

We have come up with 15 of the best cinematic films to sit back and be empowered. These are the movies that make you proud to be a woman. From historical moments of achievement, finding yourself, friendship, and standing up for feminism.

These 15 films all about women are the perfect recipe to make look back reflect and be energized that as a woman you can do anything you put your mind to. Continue on to see our list of empowering female movies…

CelebNMovies247.com has been going through our catalogs of empowering female movies and we’ve put together a list we think you will enjoy.

These films are a great way to binge through the weekend – 15 movies = 30 hours of empowering moments achieved by women. Time to invite the girls over for a weekend get together and bond.

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15 Empowering Female Movies You Need To Watch:

15. The Silence of the Lambs:

The film is about the strength of a woman Clarice, played by Jodie Foster who is determined to solve a murder mystery. The Silence of the Lambs is an intelligent, well-written film to inspire Hollywood heroines.

14. Bend It Like Beckham:

Bend It Like Beckham is about an aspiring soccer player whose family refuses to let her participate in the sport because she’s a girl.

14. The Hate U Give:

The Hate U Give is about standing up for what is right, for empowering a community to fight against the wrongdoings of police and overcoming oppression.

13. Legally Blonde:

This film takes the ditzy blonde stereotype and turns it on its head by having protagonist Elle Woods (bow down) get into Harvard like it’s no bigs, and then solve the major legal case of her year. A true feminist movie.

12. Girls Trip:

This film is all about longtime friends bonding and overcoming adversity through friendship. No matter how tough it gets your girls are always by your side.

11. Sex and the City:

The story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City. Sex and the City is about strong friendships between women and getting through the happy, sad and difficult moment in life.

10. Oceans 8:

The film is about empowering women, strong-minded women proving their worth and seizing the moment.

9. Erin Brockovich:

Erin Brockovich who is played by Julia Roberts is a single mom raising three young children. Erin Brockovich is a true empowering movie about feminism. How to overcome the impossible and carve a lane for yourself in a world run by men.

7. The Devil Wears Prada:

Based on the hilarious best-selling novel, The Devil Wears Prada proves that a woman who is determined can accomplish anything. It’s about drive, determination and true hunger to succeed and find what truly makes one happy.

6. Molly’s Game:

A true empowering female movie about how a woman achieved the impossible. How one woman succeeded in having the most successful exclusive and decadent mancave in history. The movie is based on a true story.

5. The Help:

Based on one of the most talked-about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, “The Help.” The film is about overcoming racism, and segregation. It’s about the many maids who stood up and let their voices be heard.

4. Joy:

Based on the true story of a divorced Long Island mother, played by Jennifer Lawrence, who invents a detachable, self-wringing mop and overcomes significant obstacles to develop a wildly successful enterprise, first with QVC and later with the Home Shopping Network.

3. Hidden Figures:

Hidden Figures, a biographical drama about three black mathematicians at NASA. The fact that many people had never heard this story before the film’s release is a true testament to how often women—and especially women of color—are sidelined in our history books.