Sarcozona mentions accurately that films that focus on women’s lives are rated less highly than those that tell men’s stories.

This is completely true. I go out of my way to find films that tell women’s stories or are told from a woman’s perspective for just that reason, and because I like experiencing all that humanity has to offer not some tiny subset of it (as most seem to prefer).

Here’s a partial list of films I’d recommend that focus on a woman or a girl and/or are told from a woman’s point of view:

Made in Dagenham
Kissing Jessica Stein
Happy-Go-Lucky
Phoebe in Wonderland
Practical Magic
Ginger & Rosa
Veronika Decides to Die
Julie & Julia
Proof
Tomboy
Cargo
Stories We Tell
The Descent
Winter’s Bone
My Blueberry Nights
Mother and Child
Mulholland Drive
Side Effects
Damsels in Distress
Safe
Cherish
Veronica Guerin
The Brave One
Whip It
In Her Shoes
Sleepwalking
The Hours
The Whistleblower
Charlotte Gray
Tamara Drewe
Vera Drake
Far From Heaven
Blue Jasmine
Junebug
Atonement
In a World…
Another Earth
Pitch Perfect
Heavenly Creatures
The Gift
The Craft
Clone
Jennifer’s Body
Volver
Notes on a Scandal
Nell
Easy A
Rachel Getting Married
Speak
The East
Bridesmaids
Offside
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Chloe
The Accussed
Postcards from the Edge
Bend it Like Beckham
Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)
Room in Rome
Little Fish
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Secret Life of Bees
Maleficent
My Sister’s Keeper
Fair Game
Ten Inch Hero
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Triangle
American Violet
The Runaways
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Heat
Ghost World
My Life Without Me
Better Than Chocolate
Inland Empire
Frozen River
Ginger Snaps
According to Greta
Carrie
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Cracks
But I’m a Cheerleader
Saved!
Josie and the Pussycats
Nine Lives
Prozac Nation
Imagine Me & You
Thirteen
Waitress
Very Good Girls
The Bling Ring
Lost & Delirious
Clockwatchers
May

This list is by no means comprehensive – it is just movies that I personally liked. I am sure I am forgetting very many. Also note that I watch widely across all genres so the list entire will probably include many movies not to quite a few people’s taste.