If you’re looking for a movie that’s real, has strong, smart, and empowered women that aren’t afraid to go against the grain, you’ve come to the right place. Many of these movies you may have seen before, maybe one that you haven’t. Either way, grab the remote and get comfortable to watch by yourself or with that special someone as there’s sure to be a scene in any one of these movies that will make you chuckle or at least smile.
Female Empowerment Movie #1: The 2003 release of “Mona Lisa Smile” starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Marcia Gay Harden is a fictional movie about a fictional art professor at Wellesley College in the 1950s. The film was inspired by the social and cultural ways of life of the 1950s when women were encouraged to become wives and mothers, even after having more career opportunities after WW II. According to Google AI, the film is also inspired by an article about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s time at Wellesley in the 1960s, with the screenwriters choosing to set the story a decade earlier to explore the social pressures of the previous era.
The synopsis on the movie cover is an accurate description: “Mona Lisa Smile is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about romance.”
Female Empowerment Movie #1: The 2003 release of “Mona Lisa Smile” starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Marcia Gay Harden is a fictional movie about a fictional art professor at Wellesley College in the 1950s. The film was inspired by the social and cultural ways of life of the 1950s when women were encouraged to become wives and mothers, even after having more career opportunities after WW II. According to Google AI, the film is also inspired by an article about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s time at Wellesley in the 1960s, with the screenwriters choosing to set the story a decade earlier to explore the social pressures of the previous era.
The synopsis on the movie cover is an accurate description: “Mona Lisa Smile is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about romance.”
Female Empowerment Movie #2: The 2000 release of “Erin Brockovich” based on the true story of a real woman’s experience fighting for justice for herself, her 3 children, and a legal case against a large corporation that no law firm has dared to do before. One of the most famous, true, and funny scenes from the movie is when her boss and attorney, Ed Masry asks her for “her number.” She responds back listing off various significant numbers in her life; from the age of each of her children, the number of dollars she has in her bank account, and the number of times she assumes he’ll call her.
Female Empowerment Movie #3: The 2001 release of “Legally Blonde” starring Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, and Matthew Davis is a romantic comedy about Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority president, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and a blonde. Expecting to be proposed to by fraternity boy, Warner Huntington III, she is dumped for not being serious enough when he goes to Harvard Law School. She decides to attend Harvard Law School as well, to win him back and show how “serious” she can be. Although she receives prejudices’ and stands out, she thrives; wins a high-profile murder trial by using her unique skills and knowledge to prove her client’s innocence, builds her own self-confidence with her newfound passion for law, graduates with honors, and finds another guy who appreciates, loves, and commits to her instead.
Female Empowerment Movie #4: The 2022 release of “Call Jane” starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver is based on the true story in 1968 about the “Jane Collective” an underground network in Chicago that provided safe abortions to women before Roe v. Wade made them legal. While the characters in the movie were fictional, the organization’s mission, its methods, and the overall story of its members providing and performing abortions are all based on the real collective, which helped over 11,000 women between 1969 and 1973.
The synopsis of the movie: A drama portraying a suburban housewife, Joy that develops a life-threatening condition after becoming pregnant. Unable to get a legal abortion even after an appeal of an all-older white male board at a hospital, she seeks help from “Jane” the collective of an underground network of women who provide safe, but illegal abortions. Joy eventually joins the collective to assist with the abortions.
The synopsis of the movie: A drama portraying a suburban housewife, Joy that develops a life-threatening condition after becoming pregnant. Unable to get a legal abortion even after an appeal of an all-older white male board at a hospital, she seeks help from “Jane” the collective of an underground network of women who provide safe, but illegal abortions. Joy eventually joins the collective to assist with the abortions.
Female Empowerment Movie #5: The 2006 release of “Devil Wears Prada” starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway is another great movie about career, love, and relationships in general. It is about Hathaway being an assistant to an impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestley (Streep), a job that “a million girls would die for.” Just when Hathaway thought she’d never become like them, she does (and not just with making her outer self over) that she has to decide whether she wants to continue to have the job that others would kill for.
IMPORTANT to note: There will be a “Devil Wears Prada 2” movie that is scheduled to only release in theaters in the U.S. on May 1, 2026. Anybody want to see this movie with me? Email me (my email is in my byline at the bottom of this article) and let’s put it on the calendar now. And if you haven’t seen the first movie (“Devil Wears Prada”) ensure you watch it before seeing the second one with me.
IMPORTANT to note: There will be a “Devil Wears Prada 2” movie that is scheduled to only release in theaters in the U.S. on May 1, 2026. Anybody want to see this movie with me? Email me (my email is in my byline at the bottom of this article) and let’s put it on the calendar now. And if you haven’t seen the first movie (“Devil Wears Prada”) ensure you watch it before seeing the second one with me.
By: Carly Calabrese
Carly Calabrese is a highly motivated entrepreneur and professional writer in Puyallup, WA. She has written for & been published in various publications: Woman’s World Magazine, Eatonville Dispatch Newspaper, SouthSoundTalk.com, Tacoma.com, the Tacoma Art Group, the Tacoma Daily Index, the Federal Way Mirror Newspaper, South Sound Magazine, Showcase Media Magazine, the Business Examiner, & the Puyallup Herald Newspaper.
She is also the founder & manager of a Covid-19 awareness & support blog. Visit: corona-virus-awarenessandsupport.blogspot.com to learn more and post appropriate and productive comments to her posts.
If you know of a freelance or remote and U.S. based only writing or editing project or position for an individual, business, OR are an editor yourself for a publication that hires for this, please email Carly at: [email protected]. Thank you! 🙏
Carly Calabrese is a highly motivated entrepreneur and professional writer in Puyallup, WA. She has written for & been published in various publications: Woman’s World Magazine, Eatonville Dispatch Newspaper, SouthSoundTalk.com, Tacoma.com, the Tacoma Art Group, the Tacoma Daily Index, the Federal Way Mirror Newspaper, South Sound Magazine, Showcase Media Magazine, the Business Examiner, & the Puyallup Herald Newspaper.
She is also the founder & manager of a Covid-19 awareness & support blog. Visit: corona-virus-awarenessandsupport.blogspot.com to learn more and post appropriate and productive comments to her posts.
If you know of a freelance or remote and U.S. based only writing or editing project or position for an individual, business, OR are an editor yourself for a publication that hires for this, please email Carly at: [email protected]. Thank you! 🙏
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