Up The Women

It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need to set up their own movement and The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle becomes the hilariously ineffectual Banbury Intricate Craft Circle politely request women's Suffrage. Gwen is the only member who actually enjoys the craft element of the meetings, while Helen thinks that craft is a little unnecessary, but she's not interested in women's rights: "What on earth do women need a vote for? My husband votes for who I tell him to vote for. What could be a better system than that?"

A documentary about the feminist movement in France and Switzerland in the 1970s, retracing the history, the struggles, the achievements, and the upheavals.

A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. Pa is appalled at the latest fashionable dresses worn by the women in his household.

Canadian comedy comes with instructions of how to pick up single women.

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

Three generations of Black women talk about their voting experiences. Growing up in the South under Jim Crow meant that voting was impossible or dangerous. After the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s, community services improved when Black candidates were elected. A young Black woman voting for the first time could vote for the first woman of color as Vice President.

Four generations of politically active women talk about voting and running for office. They grew up assuming that women belonged in government and everyone should exercise the right to vote.

Mother and daughter radiologists talk about their careers. The mother opened her own practice because no one would hire a doctor who might become pregnant. The daughter enjoys work and motherhood.

Three generations of women talk about working in and out of the home. The grandmother was expected to stay at home and raise children. The mother succeeded as a single parent who assumed she had the right to equal pay. The daughter found that women have to work twice as hard to prove that they are just as capable as men.

A Chinese-American woman grew up in a community where immigration and citizenship were restricted by law. Those who could vote were too afraid of the government to register. Only the election of the first Asian-American to Congress gave them the confidence to exercise their right to vote.

Ivana, Clara and Marina are three women from different backgrounds living at the same time in Sarajevo. Ivana dreams about moving to the USA, Clara works during the night to save money for her studies and Marina is in love with her best friend who is moving to a different country. Each one fights to achieve her own goals, but most of the time society doesn´t accept what's not in accordance with its norms.

Recording of two women picking up olives in a park in Palma (Mallorca).

Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.

A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.

Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.