29 Exciting New Movies Directed by Women

Release Date: January 24

Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince

What it's about: Sigismondi's movie is a modern-day re-telling of the Henry James novel, The Turn of the Screw. The story follows a governess starting a new job at a very creepy mansion. She'll be in charge of two children who mysteriously lost their parents. Let's just say these kids aren't exactly angels.

Release Date: January 31

Starring: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown

What it's about: From the same director of Hulu's Handmaid's Tale comes this action thriller of a woman (Lively) who is out to seek revenge on the bad guys who were behind the plane crash that killed her family.

Release Date: February 7

Starring: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor

What it's about: Consider it a sequel of sorts to the 2016 film Suicide Squad. Except, in this story, Harley Quinn has broken up with the Joker, and she's ready to fight the bad guys on her own, along with the help of some more women.

Release Date: February 7

Starring: Richard Armitage, Riley Keough, Alicia Silverstone

What it's about: Two kids and their soon-to-be stepmom are snowed in during a lodge getaway in the middle of nowhere after the kid's father is whisked away on business. The group seems to be trucking along fine...until some peculiar things start happening out of their control.

Release Date: February 14

Starring: Issa Rae, Chelsea Peretti, Courtney B. Vance, LaKeith Stanfield, and Y'lan Noel

What it's about: When the famous photographer mom of Mae (played by Rae) dies unexpectedly, Mae finds in the photographs from her mom's past a romance she never knew about. As she uncovers her mom's history, she finds herself falling in love with the journalist tasked to write about her mother's legacy.

Release Date: February 21

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Rosie Perez

What's it about: Based on the Joan Didion novel of the same name, this story follows a war journalist who finds out that the story she's trying to break might hit closer to home than she realizes.

Release Date: February 21

Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Miranda Hart, Josh O'Connor

What's it about: Jane Austen lovers rejoice: It's a brand-new retelling of one of the writer's most beloved stories, Emma. If you're unfamiliar with the plot line, it's about a queen bee who likes to play matchmaker despite not being able to find a love for herself. And if you're still lost, the 1995 film Clueless is based on the same Austen novel.

Release Date: March 6

Starring: John Marago, Orion Lee, Rene Auberjonois

What's it about: Set in the early nineteenth-century, loner but skilled cook (Margaro) finds himself in the West with a bunch of fur trappers. Soon, he becomes friends with a Chinese immigrant (Lee), and the two set off to make a life for themselves with a nearby prized milking cow.

Release Date: March 13

Starring: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke, Gabriel Byrne

What's it about: Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears mysteriously one night. A self-investigation brings Mari to a gated Long Island community that seems abandoned. When the police get there, they find over a dozen murdered sex workers, but not Gilbert's daughter—and then things start to get really interesting.

Release Date: March 13

Starring: Ryan Eggold, Théodore Pellerin, Talia Ryder

What's it about? Two teenage girls from a small town in Pennsylvania set out to New York City for medical help after one of them finds out she's pregnant..

Release Date: March 27

Starring: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Ling Gong

What's it about: The live-action remake of Disney's 1998 film of the same name follows a young girl who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.

Release Date: March 27

Starring: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, and Marcus Hutton

What it's about: A young girl who is a hospice nurse because obsessed with saving the soul of her patient, and will stop at nothing to do so. Glass' debut as a director and writer is sure to be a terrifying one.

Release Date: April 17

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Laverne Cox and Adam Brody

What it's about: Cassie (Mulligan) had a promising future until an incident in medical school that made her drop out. Now, at night, she preys on men who aren't exactly nice guys. When the opportunity comes for her to get revenge on those who have wronged her in the past, nothing (and no one) can stop her.

Release Date: May 1

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Rachel Weisz, David Harbour

What's it about: Shortland's film will be the first film in the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It'll follow Natasha Romanoff (Johansson) and the quest she goes on between the Avengers: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War films.

Release Date: June 5

Starring: Gal Gadot, Pedro Pascal, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig

What's it about: Not much is known about the sequel to the 2017 film Wonder Woman, except that it's set in the '80s, and this time our Diana (Gadot) is up against a new enemy, Cheetah (Wiig.)

Release Date: August 14

Starring: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitataker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald

What's it about: We'll see Jennifer Hudson play the legendary Aretha Franklin in a biopic about the singer's life. Franklin herself picked Hudson to play her before she died in 2018, so get ready for goosebumps.

Release Date: TBD

Starring: Keira Knightley, Jessie Buckley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Suki Waterhouse

What's it about: Based on a true story, Misbehaviour will follow the story of a group of women who plan to take down the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London. This U.K. film is getting a March 13 release in Britain, so we can only hope that we'll be able to see this story about some serious girl power around the same time.