Eighties films about "Career Women" and other small "f" feminist themes...

[Vintage Paw]

I think I'm just naming 80's films now...

Well if we're doing that...

9 1/2 weeks.

I don't think I'm very good at this. I certainly should never be in charge of children's education.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
Night of the Comet

 

[Santino]

What was that British film about women sitting around a Turkish bath all the time?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Well if we're doing that...

9 1/2 weeks.

I don't think I'm very good at this. I certainly should never be in charge of children's education.

Yeah, no, I definitely shouldn't. My next thought is When Harry Met Sally because it showed women can prioritise orgasms and that's fine.

 

[hot air baboon]

What was that British film about women sitting around a Turkish bath all the time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steaming_(play)

....was a play...not sure if they ever did a fillum...

 

[DotCommunist]

I suppose witches of eastwick is out cos they all argue about which one gets to be with nicholsons devil. Although in the end they unite to defeat him. but they are all pretty american middle class in it, so that fits the yuppie thing a bit.

 

[billy_bob]

In Flashdance wasn't the main character a welder? That alone in the film quite impressed me as a kid!

Funniest line in the Full Monty - they're sitting round watching Flashdance and one of them goes, 'I hope she dances better than she welds - her mix is all to cock'.

 

[Santino]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steaming_(play)

....was a play...not sure if they ever did a fillum...

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090070/

 

[Sea Star]

Was the Buffy film 80s?

Day of the Dead - great female lead in that standing up to her male military superiors

Can't think of many British films though...

 

[Idris2002]

Would Letter to Brezhnev fit?I've not seen it in years, mind.

 

[Orang Utan]

Clan Of The Cave Bear - set in times of ugg, but it's still well 80s (especially Daryl Hannah's hair and make up) and is about a woman who refuses to accept her lot.

 

[zoooo]

No new suggestions, but I frigging LOVE Baby Boom. Watch it all the time.

 

[May Kasahara]

Maharani beat me to it - Rita, Sue & Bob Too, a British 80s classic. Female friendship, women seeking sex for pleasure in defiance of societal expectations, and a brilliant depiction of the utter shitness of poverty at that time.

Possibly might get you in trouble with the patents, though...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Maharani beat me to it

And me

How about The Arbor - made in 2010 but incorporating scenes from Andrea Dunbar's scripts and reenactments of interviews with the playwright (who died at the dawn of the nineties) and others?

 

[newharper]

I was going to suggest " A league of their own " but it's 1992.

 

[spanglechick]

period-set pieces probably less useful, generally. even the most motivated kids will only watch three, if i'm realistic... and the eighties social culture is the key thing i want them to get.

 

[rekil]

Mr.Mom - due a sequel on the back of Keaton's Birdman success.
Silkwood

I linked The Official Story by mistake there - it's in forrin and I dunno if it's what you're after.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

period-set pieces probably less useful, generally. even the most motivated kids will only watch three, if i'm realistic... and the eighties social culture is the key thing i want them to get.

There must be a mike Leigh fill that fits the bill somewhere?

 

[Orang Utan]

Working Girls - the Lizzie Borden - I remembered it as a documentary, but it ain't. Grim as fuck but a brilliant counter to the likes of Risky Business and other 80s films that glamourise prostitution

 

[Reno]

Fatal Attraction, though dispicable in its sexual politics was one of the most discussed films of the 80s in terms of (negative) portrayals of career women (they are crazy, basically)

 

[Santino]

I've got this niggling feeling that we've all forgotten a really famous example of an 80s film about a woman doing something slightly unusual for her gender.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've got this niggling feeling that we've all forgotten a really famous example of an 80s film about a woman doing something slightly unusual for her gender.

Red Sonja

 

[Pickman's model]

Red Sonja

what, red sonja which was based on a story by robert e howard (1906-1936)?

 

[Santino]

'The Accused' must have been one of the earliest mainstream Hollywood films about rape.

 

[rekil]

I've got this niggling feeling that we've all forgotten a really famous example of an 80s film about a woman doing something slightly unusual for her gender.

Aliens. The 'baddie' alien was a she.

 

[Santino]

Alien is all about fear of rape.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I just remembered that there was a thing called Juliet Bravo, about a police inspector, but that was set in Lancashire in the early 80s, which presumably is the equivalent of 1973 or so down south.

 

[Pickman's model]

I just remembered that there was a thing called Juliet Bravo, about a police inspector, but that was set in Lancashire in the early 80s, which presumably is the equivalent of 1973 or so down south.

 

[hot air baboon]

I've got this niggling feeling that we've all forgotten a really famous example of an 80s film about a woman doing something slightly unusual for her gender.

....as do I......dredged up this one...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_(1987_film)

...and the one about Cynthia Payne ofcourse..which may be not quite what we are aiming for..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Services

 

[spanglechick]

Are you all just enjoying reminiscing, or should I point out that the kids are fifteen so sex and violence (and 18 certs) are out?