# The best movies written by women

Summer 1993, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Singin' in the Rain, Laura, Three Colors: Red and Before Sunrise: the best-reviewed films with screenplays written by women, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

- 63 votes · 20 items
- Jan 27, 2024 · cinefilo83
- https://even.best/en/l/4967/the-best-movies-written-by-women

## Top 20

1. **Summer 1993 (2017)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
2. **Miss Juneteenth (2020)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
3. **My Life as a Zucchini (2016)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
4. **Hive (2021)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
5. **Three Colors: Red (1994)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
6. **Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
7. **Slalom (2020)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
8. **Mickey and the Bear (2019)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
9. **Battleship Potemkin (1925)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
10. **Before Sunrise (1995)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
11. **The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
12. **Singin' in the Rain (1952)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
13. **Laura (1944)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
14. **Paper Spiders (2021)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
15. **E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
16. **Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
17. **Shadow of a Doubt (1943)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
18. **Lady Bird (2017)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
19. **Happening (2021)** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.
20. **Things to Come (2016)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.

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