List of films directed by women

This is a selection of feature films directed by women directors. == 1890s–1920s == 1896 La Fée aux Choux; director: Alice Guy; one of the first narrative (fiction) films 1905 Esmeralda; director: Alice Guy; earliest film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1906 The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ; director: Alice Guy 1906 The Consequences of Feminism; director: Alice Guy; earliest feminist film 1912 Algie the Miner; director: Alice Guy-Blaché (uncredited); first western directed by a woman 1912 Falling Leaves; director: Alice Guy-Blaché 1912 A Fool and His Money; director: Alice Guy-Blaché; likely the first film with an all African-American cast 1913 The Jew's Christmas; director: Lois Weber, co-directed with Phillips Smalley 1913 The Pit and the Pendulum; director: Alice Guy-Blaché; first English-language adaptation of the short story 1913 Suspense; director: Lois Weber, co-directed with Phillips Smalley 1914 The Merchant of Venice (lost film as of 2025); director: Lois Weber; the first full-length feature film directed by a woman 1915 An Argentine Romance (Un Romance Argentino); director: Angélica Jovita García 1915 Hypocrites; director: Lois Weber 1915 Sempre Avanti, Savoia! ; director: Elvira Notari 1916 The Devil's Prize; director: Marguerite Bertsch 1916 Miss Peasant (lost film as of 2025); director: Olga Preobrazhenskaya 1916 Shoes; director: Lois Weber 1916 Where Are My Children?

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