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84
7.6
/4343/
75
/79/
72
/73/
4.0
/5558/
99
/74/
84
/153/
91
/26/

Moolaadé (2004)
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
poster
MUBI
76
6.8
/1458/
66
/44/
66
/39/
3.6
/5330/
96
/56/
83
/4/
83
/18/

Lingui: The Sacred Bonds (2021)
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law. In the process, mother and daughter forge a connection stronger than any they’ve ever known.
poster
66
7.3
/15246/
75
/452/
75
/459/
3.6
/11361/
50
/18/
72
/176/
54
/7/
cc age 16+

Desert Flower (2009)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
poster
Kanopy
66
7.9
/12467/
79
/710/
74
/203/
3.0
/4067/
17
/6/
92
/445/
cc age 15+

The Red Pill (2016)
When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Chronicling Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege.
poster
MUBI
63
6.5
/143453/
63
/3533/
66
/2736/
3.4
/227307/
53
/178/
55
/3625/
49
/34/

Antichrist (2009)
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
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Fandor
65
56
6.8
/5178/
65
/153/
62
/147/
3.4
/7679/

The Untold Story (1993)
Macau cops begin to suspect a man running a pork buns restaurant of murder, after tracing the origin of a case full of chopped up human remains that washed ashore, which leads them to him.
poster
55
54
6.3
/13708/
62
/381/
62
/320/
3.3
/25305/
25
/8/
54
/279/

The New York Ripper (1982)
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
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52
5.9
/3417/
65
/133/
60
/73/
3.0
/2288/
64
/14/
51
/89/

Shaft in Africa (1973)
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
poster
50
5.4
/53953/
59
/2495/
57
/1536/
2.4
/95462/
39
/99/
30
/778/
38
/19/
cc age 18+

The Green Inferno (2013)
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
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44
6.1
/2447/
63
/49/
57
/72/
3.5
/5000/

Splatter: Naked Blood (1996)
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
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41
4.8
/4921/
50
/121/
46
/132/
2.7
/9754/

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)
A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.
poster
AMC+
32
3.8
/46932/
43
/2155/
47
/1391/
1.7
/85785/
28
/83/
23
/1144/
17
/22/

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011)
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
poster
Kanopy
70
31
6.0
/352/
67
/45/
55
/18/
3.5
/318/
100
/5/

100 Vaginas (2019)
A bold, feminist film about how the vagina has shaped our view of the world and the shame around female sexuality. Women from 19 to 77 years old talk about puberty, menstruation, birth, motherhood, infertility, menopause, pleasure, sex, pain, trauma, gender, sexuality, cancer, rape and FGM.
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34
21
3.5
/1349/
32
/41/
30
/39/
2.0
/2348/

Snuff 102 (2007)
A young Argentinian reporter is writing an article about snuff films - which depict real torture, rape and murder of people. But seeking the films and those behind them might backfire. She herself is in danger of becoming one of the suffering.
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57
18
5.6
/647/
58
/16/
51
/15/
3.0
/1010/

Five Women for the Killer (1974)
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...
poster
63
12
6.1
/359/
75
/4/
46
/8/
3.5
/704/

Dunia (2006)
A young, free-spirited dancer and student of Arabic poetry falls in love with her thesis supervisor while trapped in a relationship with a man who disapproves of her dancing.
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41
10
4.3
/616/
39
/23/
44
/25/
2.9
/316/
25
/1/

Morituris: Legions Of The Dead (2012)
Rome, in 73 B.C. Spartacus led the rebellion of 200 gladiators wich saw them opposed to the inhumanity which Rome had forced them into. During the riot they resisted for a long time against the roman soldiers. Few against a whole army. Some of them went crazy and started murders, rapes and violence. Spartacus punished them with dead. But in those lands, when blood gets shed, they come back ...
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?
2.8
/16/
40
/1/

Bottled Vulva: High School Girl Yuriko (1998)
A high school student is sexually abused and mutilated by a crazed male psychopath.
poster
?
2.8
/15/

Bottled Vulva: Kindergarten Teacher Kyoko (1998)
This time around psychotic vulvectomizer Takeshi tortures and sexually assaults a Kindergarten teacher.
poster
?
3.5
/41/

Bottled Vulva: Bank Teller Noriko (1998)
After having tortured and sexually assaulted bank teller Noriko Kamimura, psychotic vulvectomizer Takeshi removes and bottles her vulva as a souvenir.
poster
?
5.2
/8/
35
/2/
45
/2/

Feminine Dilemma (1994)
A short film criticizing the practice of female genital mutilation. Alternating between real and enacted footage with various points of view.
poster
?
8.6
/20/
75
/2/

The Cruel Cut (2013)
Directed by Vicki Cooper.
poster
60
?
5.6
/13/
65
/16/

The FGM Detectives (2018)
The horrific crime of female genital mutilation is banned in the UK but it is estimated that nearly 20,000 young women a year are still at risk of the procedure. And despite being banned more than 30 years ago, there have been no successful convictions. This harrowing documentary, from reporter Cathy Newman, follows the work of DCI Leanne Pook and her team, who are tackling the crime in Bristol.
poster
Hoopla
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7.7
/72/
66
/3/
78
/5/

Jaha's Promise (2017)
A documentary about the life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner who returns to her country of birth to confront the harmful tradition that she and 200 million women and girls have undergone globally.
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fuboTV
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5.5
/37/
70
/1/

The Beekeeper (2013)
Harry Goddard is a bigoted British military man. He has been involved in more than his share of heinous acts perpetrated in the name of national security. He has been taught from the beginning that Islam is evil and that Muslims are the enemy. An operation occurs where a completely innocent Muslim woman is murdered by a man under his control and this act pushes Goddard over the edge - his conscience will not allow him to continue. He tries to run away from the mental anguish by moving to western Canada but soon after his arrival, he finds himself involved with a Muslim brother and sister who have recently moved to Canada to escape the oppression in their homeland. The brother is gay and the sister is an artist who finds herself subject to unwanted marriage proposals from her fundamentalist cousin who has sponsored their move to Canada. Her suitor wants to circumcise her and his plan sets off a series of actions that exposes how the media can be responsible for perpetuating stereotypes.
poster
?
6.4
/13/

Fire Eyes (1994)
This powerful and important film is the first to present an African viewpoint on a culturally explosive issue. Somali filmmaker Soraya Mire knows firsthand about the traditional African practice of female genital mutilation. At thirteen she was subjected to it and spent the next twenty years recovering physically and emotionally from its cruel legacy. Fire Eyes explores the socio-economic, psychological, and medical consequences of this ancient custom which affects more than 80 million women worldwide.
poster
?
8.6
/15/

A Pinch of skin (2012)
Practice of khatna among Dawoodi Bohra community in India.
poster
?
8.6
/11/

One in 2000 (2007)
One in 2000 explores the lives of people who are born with sex anatomy that doesn't fit into standard male or female categories. Interweaving current stories with 1950's educational films, the experiences of intersex people are demystified.
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46
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5.5
/130/
35
/4/
48
/5/

Africa Uncensored (1971)
Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
poster
36
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5.7
/114/
28
/5/
14
/7/
50
/2/
32
/8/

Beyond Honor (2006)
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.
poster
Kanopy
77
?
7.9
/243/
78
/5/
80
/2/
74
/4/

Honor Diaries (2013)
Honor Diaries is the first film to break the silence on ‘honor violence’ against women and girls. Honor Diaries is more than a movie, it is a movement to save women and girls from human rights abuses – around the world and here in America.
poster
Kanopy
?
5.1
/33/
10
/1/

Warrior Marks (1994)
WARRIOR MARKS is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation from the director of A PLACE OF RAGE, presented by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE and POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY. Female genital mutilation affects one hundred million of the world’s women and this remarkable film unlocks some of the cultural and political complexities surrounding this issue. Interviews with women from Senegal, Gambia, Burkino Faso, the United States and England who are concerned with and affected by genital mutilation are intercut with Walker’s own personal reflections on the subject.
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73
?
8.2
/257/
77
/8/
60
/1/

Banaz: A Love Story (2012)
This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family for choosing a life for herself.
poster
Kanopy
?
6.8
/9/
10
/1/

Bintou in Paris (1995)
A "fictional documentary" concerning the volatile topic of female excision, Bintou In Paris tells the story of a young Malinese mother faced with the critical decision of whether or not to excise her baby daughter.
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69
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6.6
/118/
90
/2/
53
/7/

Fair Sex (2012)
Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.
poster
54
?
5.9
/627/
42
/4/
61
/7/

The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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?
6.8
/99/
63
/9/
69
/7/

Eve's Apple (2017)
Interviews with global policymakers and girls in Gambia and Kenya detail the horrors of female genital mutilation and the growing efforts to end it.
poster
28
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2.7
/275/
40
/4/
18
/6/

Johnny Sunshine Maximum Violence (2008)
The Sprawl, a seedy underworld of exploitation, violence, and zombies. In this maze of alleyways and speakeasies life is cheap, drugs are cheaper, and surviving to a ripe old age is an urban myth. At the center of it all is Johnny Sunshine, a porn star and killer for hire. She stalks the night like a tempest of sex and violence, much to the pleasure and profit of her producer, Max, and his entertainment empire. As the body count rises, Johnny becomes a victim of her own success. In secret a plot is hatched to orchestrate her downfall, and capture it all on camera to create the greatest snuff film ever made. Written by dissolve pictures
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46
?
5.2
/141/
43
/3/
43
/3/

Sweet and Wild Africa (1982)
A Mondo documentary following the customs and rites of passage of various tribes in Africa.
poster
Kanopy
70
?
7.5
/151/
70
/2/
65
/4/

The Day I Will Never Forget (2002)
The practice of female genital mutilation is explored through personal stories of Kenyan women.
poster
?

Do You Remember Me? (2022)
Sara from Zurich was circumcised as a little girl in Ethiopia. This event severely traumatized her. To find her inner peace, Sara decides to look for her circumciser.
poster
?

The Cut (2012)
Filmmaker Magoko heads to rural East Africa to understand the various traditional ceremonies and the efforts to eradicate them. She finds a community deeply divided not only along lines of age and culture. Enlightened elders lobby for the ban of the practice, others decry the loss of tradition. Among women, some seek to maintain the status quo while others flee to rescue camps. For the activists it is a clear case of basic women’s rights: circumcision is inextricably linked to early marriage and forbidden education. Who is telling the truth and what are the stakes?


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