# Movies Centered Around Single Outcast Women? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 6, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582 "2021-12-06T18:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/41 "2021-12-08T00:35:56Z")
_[Repulsion](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/reference)_, starring Catherine Deneuve. What do I win? šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/42 "2021-12-08T13:15:55Z")
I was thinking of this last night. Itā€™s a perfect example, and Iā€™ve seen it, but Iā€™m curious if thereā€™s something similar - just not as long or mundane. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/43 "2021-12-09T02:00:59Z")
I think the OP would dig [Starfish](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5700182/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) and perhaps also [I Kill Giants](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4547194/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/44 "2021-12-10T12:09:06Z")
[Dolores Clairborne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Claiborne_(film)) (1995). Director Taylor Hackford is Helen Mirrenā€™s husband in real life. Kathy Bates and Jennifer Jason Leigh play an estranged mother and daughter, and Judy Parfitt has a smaller part that I thought was the best performance of the film, which is saying a lot, as the cast is superb. Kathy Bates considers it to be the best performance of her career. So dark that I found parts hard to watch, yet I couldnā€™t look away. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/45 "2021-12-10T12:19:22Z")
Iā€™m surprised no one has mentioned _The Scarlet Letter_ (any of the many versions). It seems to me that Hester Prynne is the original ā€œoutcastā€ woman. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/46 "2021-12-10T13:19:10Z")
Thatā€™s a great example- love that movie and Kathy Bates and Judy Parfitt were both perfect for their parts. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/47 "2021-12-10T15:34:37Z")
### A Girl in Black ([1956](https://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1956&ref_=tt_rv)) To koritsi me ta mavra ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/48 "2021-12-10T23:22:23Z")
_Water_ is about widows in an ashram in 1930s India. It is a terrible statement about what their lives were like but it is not without itā€™s beautiful moments. I recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/49 "2021-12-11T23:09:14Z")
Sort of qualifying in this genre is _Cat People_ (1942), starring Simone Simon as a woman who fears she will metamorphose into a panther if aroused to passion. This does not do wonders for her love life. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/50 "2023-02-20T21:19:16Z")
**Who You Think I Am** **[Who You Think I Am - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_oCjeqLDOw)** ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/51 "2023-02-20T21:33:34Z")
Did anyone mention the girl with the dragon tattoo? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/52 "2023-02-20T22:58:54Z")
Looking For Mr. Goodbar ? ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/53 "2023-02-21T14:34:15Z")
If I understand the OP correctly, this would fit the bill: [Alice Doesnā€™t Live Here Anymore - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Doesn%27t_Live_Here_Anymore) executive summary: A young widow (Ellyn Burnstyn) and her child travel across the country to return to her childhood home, but get waylaid in Arizona. Inspired the sitcom _Alice_ which ran for many years in the 70s. Iirc, the film was more of a drama than the TV comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/54 "2023-02-21T14:44:22Z")
Since all the obvious ones have already been mentioned, Iā€™ll go with something a little different. I enjoyed a Netflix Chinese animated move called, ā€œGreen Snakeā€. After a girl named Verta and her sister lost a battle with a super villain, she was literally cast out of her realm and into a very hostile environment where just surviving was a constant challenge. Asuraville was a realm containing people who had obsessions, and the only escape was to release oneā€™s obsession. In doing so, however, the tradeoff was to forget and lose the willpower to achieve what you wanted more than anything else in your life. Vertaā€™s battle to escape Asuraville and find her sister without having to do that made for a pretty compelling story. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/55 "2023-02-21T18:43:05Z")
I really liked that movie. Though itā€™s apparently a sequel to a movie thatā€™s hard to find. Thereā€™s also a Tsui Hark wuxia by the same name thatā€™s completely unrelated. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582/56 "2023-02-21T18:44:26Z")
Itā€™s a sequel to, ā€œWhite Snakeā€. In fact, an alternative title to ā€œGreen Snakeā€ is ā€œWhite Snake 2ā€. There is talk of a sequel to ā€œGreen Snakeā€, but I found nothing concrete. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-centered-around-single-outcast-women/955582.md?page=2)