Lois Weber - Suspense (1913)

Lois Weber (1879 —1939) was an American silent film actress,screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films"

Maya Deren - Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)

Alice Guy-Blaché - The Irresistible Piano (1907)

Alice Guy-Blaché - the consequences of feminism

Selected filmography
La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) (1896) 
Little Tich and his Big Boots (1900)
Sage-femme de première classe (First Class Midwife) (1902) 
Danses Gitanes (1905)
La Esméralda (1905) (based on the Victor Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
L’Emeute sur la Barricade (1906)
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (1906)
Madame’s Fancies (1907) 
La Saucisse (1907)
The Glue (1907)
The Irresistible Piano (1907)
A Fool and His Money (1912) 
Algie the Miner (1912) 
Making an American Citizen (1912) 

Alice Guy-Blaché - La Fée aux Choux

La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) is one of the earliest narrative fiction films ever made. It was probably made before the first Méliès fiction film, but after the Lumière brothers' L'Arroseur Arrosé. The confusion stems from the uncertainty in the dating of these three films. Many film historians have accepted that La Fée aux Choux was made in April 1896, just a month or two before Méliès made his first fiction film. L'Arroseur arrosé (generally considered the earliest fiction film) was screened in December 1895.

La Fée aux Choux is sixty seconds long, possibly making it the earliest known film with a running time of at least one minute.

Alice Guy Blanché, the director of La Fée aux Choux, is one of the early cinema's most important figures, and had an extensive career as a director, producer and studio owner, working in both France and the United States. Guy Blaché appears in the film, dressed as a man.

Shirin Neshat - Women without men

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN is Shirin Neshat's independent film adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel. The story chronicles the intertwining lives of four Women in Iran during the summer of 1953; a thriller that that addresses themes such as human rights and women, women voting rights, and the womans rights movement, a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history and Muslim women rights when an American led, British backed coup d'état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and reinstalled the Shah to power.