What are some movies with women being more dominant?

“SPECIES” comes to mind.

“AMERICAN PIE”

There are many films but the one’s I remember right now are Thelma and Louise and V for Vendetta.

I don’t got a movie, but a TV show, Xena Warrior Princess. The two protagonists are both women, and while there are many important male figures, most men in this basically serve as punching bags.
It’s a very interesting show in how the relationship between the two girls sees them through every ordeal. While the show itself doesn’t seem to directly imply this, the bigger percentage of the fanbase will recognize this as a fun part of the show.

I love this show, and the primal part of me just likes it for the violence, but really, I only really watch this because I love to see the interaction between Xena and Gabrielle, and how their dispositions gets them through everything, from good to bad. From eating raw octopus to reconciliation through musicals, just gotta love em.

Also, Joxer is all sorts of awesome.

Alien. Aliens.

The associate, Risky Business, Big Business, Boomerang, Cheyenne Social Club, Cutthroat Island, Mr. Mom, Dogma, Double Jeopardy, Eddy, Feds, Weird Science, Wildcats, Working Girl, The Wizard Of Oz, Love Potion #9, Taxi, Terminator, Six Days and Seven Nights

Basic Instinct.

The Wizard of Oz. (mostly dominant women)

Tomb Raider
Kill Bill
Million Dollar Baby
Resident Evil (franchise)

Sophie’s Choice

I have not seen any of her films, but I know that Joan Crawford was the lead in a fair number, the best known of which seems to be Mildred Pierce.

Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Magnolias, Mystic Pizza, Erin Brockovich

Cutthroat Island. (You didn’t say it had to be a great movie:-))

It’s one thing to find movies where woman are dominant (as well as men), another to find ones where usual roles are completely reversed and men are objectified, but here are some suggestions and you can decide whether they’re what you’re looking for:

Recently, Pacific Rim. While there is only one main woman character, she is the protagonist and hero. While it may seem initially that the male character is the lead, as soon as he meets her he is completely in awe of her and spends the rest of the movie worshipping at her feet basically, and she gets to see him topless while she is never sexualised herself. So. Yeah. It’s also a really fun movie.

Apart from that, agree with Alien (spoiler: all the dudes die), Terminator (sort of based around a dude though), and the Wizard of Oz (the wizard is kind of just used for his apparent powers while the little girl and witches run the show and it turns out he doesn’t even have powers and the girls do all the work anyhow so that’s pretty cool).

Black Widow, while being the only female in the team, has a pretty dominant role in The Avengers, and I must say, Cap’s booty is definitely objectified, as are Thor’s arms.

A couple of others I can think of are Little Women (while the men aren’t objectified, they are more portrayed as influences on the girls lives rather than the other way around), Legally Blonde and The Help.

Diabolique, in which the wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him.

This is a great question that prompted me to do a bit of research. Here’s a list of 10 Dominant Women in Hollywood Film

Fatal Attraction

Thelma and Louise
Enough (Jennifer Lopez)
GI Jane
The Call (Halle Berry)

Joy Luck Club

The first dominant female that comes to mind is Akira Kurosawa’s1985 film Ran with Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede who through her machinations manipulated the males to such a point that she single-highhandedly brought the House of Ichimonji down . She exacted her revenge upon those who were both directly and indirectly responsible for the destruction of her family and their home .

Monster?

My Super Ex Girlfriend
Million Dollar Baby
Awake

Red Sonya.

Babette’s Feast

Brave.

Cutthroat Island. The woman pirate does all the badass stuff, and treats some of the men as her playthings. I kinda like it, even though it’s not considered a fabulous movie.

Xena warrior princess… and the goddess discord.

WAS there a male in “Steel Magnolias”? Nine to Five was a hoot. Fried Green Tomatoes. There are more, older and newer.

Working Girl

GI Jane.

You could make your own film.

Star trek insurrection has admiral Janeway in the beginning.

Bound

Gravity, which I just went out to see