Of the >450 soccer movies that I have watched, less than 10% were directed by women. Most of the feature film female directors had no prior knowledge of soccer (football). And yet, by my ratings, female directors have put together some of the best football films. It’s not an explicit gender bias, since I don’t pay attention to who is the director until after I’ve watched the film.
I think these films are better because the women directors, not so emotionally tied to the sport, show deeper characters and relationships. They also inject more humor. Or perhaps this is all my personal bias as to what I find entertaining — after all, this website started from being a soccer mom. However, some of these films are the bigger moneymakers. So I can’t be ALL wrong!
Feature Films (Narratives) and Documentaries directed or co-directed by Women
Note on Jan-7-2024: I used to have 2 tables, one for feature films and one for documentaries, but now that the number of films is up to 47, I have decided to use just a single sortable table. I also discovered that I was missing about 15 films, so this list has suddenly gotten much bigger, and the percentage went from <10% to uhhhh 10%. Change is slow.
Updated Jul-2-2017, Sep-4-2017, Nov-19-2017, Oct-2-2019, Jan-31-2020, Mar-30-2020, Apr-15-2020, Dec-28-2020, Jan-4-2021, Sep-12-2021, Dec-31-2022, Jan-4-2023, Feb-24-2023, Apr-1-2023, May-4-2023, Jun-8-2023, Jun-13-2023, Jan-7-2024, Jan-25-2024, Jan-31-2024, Apr-13-2024. Apr-25-2024, Aug-17-2024, Nov-13-2024, Nov-17-2024, Nov-19-2024, Dec-9-2024, Jan-1-2025, Jan-11-2025
