2021 film directed by Amanda Lipitz

为了给年迈的父母过生日，五个子女邀请他们来首尔。在首尔的地铁站，妈妈却走失了。丈夫和子女相互 埋怨，散发寻人启事，想方设法寻找她。他们追寻她的踪迹，复原有关她的记忆……这才发现，竟没有一个人真正了解她。
这是我们每个人的故事。我们拼尽全力，离开家乡，一路成长，却终于长成 了父母的客人。
这也是我们每个人的母亲的故事。命运让她出生在无法主宰自己人生的年代，她逐渐忘记少女时代的梦想，成为“母亲”，为家庭和儿女奉献一切，湮灭了自我。可她以令人难以想象的坚韧，繁衍出更多的爱。母亲们犹如空壳，站在今日之你我的身后。我们依赖她却也推开她。
从现在开始，从这本书开始，倾听她的故事，珍惜转瞬即逝的时间，一切都还来得及。
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缔造300万册畅销奇迹的韩国文学神话，
获第五届英仕曼亚洲文学奖。
申京淑是第一位获此奖的女性作家。

豆瓣高分超人气剧集《俗女养成记》同名原著，“陈嘉玲”自传！
理直气壮的普普通通，安乐自在的俗女日常，写给每一个普通女孩的情书
俗女是一种生活态度，勇敢活出自己喜欢的模样！
★“在此郑重邀请你，把握有限的今生，先一起耸耸肩，挺这个既优秀又普通的自己一把吧。”——理直气壮的普普通通，安乐自在的俗女日常。不一定成功，不必活成大人的期待，不用在意社会规范和他人眼光，“俗女”是一种生活态度，勇敢活出自己喜欢的模样！
★豆瓣高分超人气华语剧集《俗女养成记》同名原著，“陈嘉玲”自传！写给每一个普通女孩的情书，“亲爱的自己，我想对你讲，对不起，谢谢你，我爱你。”——好看治愈的超人气现象级剧集《俗女养成记》由江鹅同名原著改编，40岁女生陈嘉玲的成长故事，引发无数观众强烈共鸣，重温“笑着笑着就哭了”的久违感动，被称为“台版《请回答1988》”。每个女孩都爱陈嘉玲。不是淑女，不是熟女，不是剩女，不是胜女，而是做一个快乐自在的俗女。
★ 一个台 南女孩的养成记，二十八帖生活药方，明眼目，清心肠，健精神！小时候，“淑女”是阿嬷和妈妈为我画的蓝图；现在，“俗女”是我自己选择的活路。
★ 大人与小孩，一起守护家的温暖热闹，也一起应付时代的荒谬，唤起所有人的童年记忆与亲情共鸣。
★ 33幅作者手绘插图召唤出记忆中的童年时代：卡带、录音机、读过的书、看过的动漫、追过的歌星、美食小吃、教材课本……
★ 黄丽群作序推荐，《俗女养成记》导演严艺文、主演谢盈萱感动荐读。
★ #我的俗女养成记#：送给每一位“俗女”的处世哲学
「内容简介」
《俗女养成记》是台湾作家江鹅最具代表性的散文故事集，以清爽利落的文字写一个台南普通女孩的成长故事：与阿嬷的趣味日常、中药房里跟屁虫的生活、学钢琴、午后一个人的科学实验、爱的教育、女性意识初启蒙，还有孩童的内心小剧场等等。在各种可与不可对人言的人生细碎里，写出了一个女孩如何一点点长大，慢慢窥见并进入成人的世界，检视那些发生在自身的，关于亲情、爱、婚姻、尊卑伦常、人情世故等诸多教养与束缚，一步步变得自知自明，自如自在，真实而舒展。
生命再怎么难免哭泣，没有一刻不盼望着欢喜。大人与小孩，一起守护家的温暖热闹，也一起应付时代的荒谬。二十八篇轻盈舒展又机趣可爱的散文，不仅召回了记忆中的童年时代，也展现了思想与情感的今昔对比，从一个更开阔的视角去理解在这个时代和环境下成长的女性。《俗女养成记》不仅是一个普通女孩的成长史，也是所有在时代的新与旧之间认真生活的当代女性真实写照，不再追随那张优秀又好命的女人蓝图，选择一种更为安乐自在的活法。每一个人的成长既有时代印痕，又有生命自身的逻辑，回首过往是记录成长，也是厘清来路，与这个普通的自己握手言和。

39岁的陈嘉玲，没房没车没老公没小孩，还丢了工作，正式加入女鲁蛇的行列。这是什么意思呢？这表示当年不惜引发家庭革命也决心要离开家乡的她，在台北奋斗了近二十年，到头来是一场空。说到淑女，就要先从她的家庭谈起。台南纯朴的乡下，三代同堂，全靠阿公开的中药行维生。身為长孙女的陈嘉玲，和台湾十大建设差不多时间出生，与台湾经济同步成长。小时候的陈嘉玲，没有人陪她玩的时候，她就自己找乐子；没人陪她说话的时候，她就自己跟自己对话。她是这麼宝贝她自己，想尽办法让自己开心。而长大后，即将迈入四十岁的陈嘉玲，虽然一路跌跌撞撞，也是货真价实地活了大半辈子。爱过人，也被人爱过；被人负过，也负过人。就算现在一无所有，天也不会塌下来。她不知道接下来的路要怎么走，但他告诉自己，接下来的每一天，她至少可以不违感受，平凡但诚实，普通但理直气壮的往前走，做一个接受自己的「俗女」。

A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

2020 film directed by Chloé Zhao

2019 film directed by Anthony Chen

The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie. Like Jen, Liz is a plucky blond American woman in her thirties with no children and no major money worries. As the book opens, she is going through a really bad divorce and subsequent stormy rebound love affair. Awash in tears in the middle of the night on the floor of the bathroom, she begins to pray for guidance, “you know —— like, to God.” God answers. He tells her to go back to bed. I started seeing the Star headlines： “Jen's New Faith！” “What Really Happened at the Ashram！” “Jen's Brazilian Sugar Daddy —— Exclusive Photos！” Please understand that Gilbert, whose earlier nonfiction book, The Last American Man, portrayed a contemporary frontiersman, is serious about her quest. But because she never leaves her self-deprecating humor at home, her journey out of depression and toward belief lacks a certain gravitas. The book is composed of 108 short chapters (based on the beads in a traditional Indian japa mala prayer necklace) that often come across as scenes in a movie. And however sad she feels or however deeply she experiences something, she can't seem to avoid dressing up her feelings in prose that can get too cute and too trite. On the other hand, she convinced me that she acquired more wisdom than most young American seekers —— and did it without peyote buttons or other classic hippie medicines. When Gilbert determines that she requires a year of healing, her first stop is Italy, because she feels she needs to immerse herself in a language and culture that worships pleasure and beauty. This sets the stage for a “Jen's Romp in Rome,” where she studies Italian and, with newfound friends, searches for the best pizza in the world......

stand-up comedy act written and performed by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby

As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles, who is still unmarried at 30.

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.

2019 Chinese film by Lina Yang

表面看来，金智英（郑有美 饰）是一个生活在幸福之中的家庭主妇，有一个收入不菲又温柔体贴的丈夫郑大贤（孔侑 饰）和一个非常可爱的女儿，在波澜不惊的日子里享受着每一天的平淡和安稳。
实际上，金智英的内心早就如同地震一般的产生了天崩地裂的动摇，在她的身上背负着无比沉重的枷锁。婆婆面前，她要扮演逆来顺受的好儿媳。丈夫面前，她又是无条件支持他的贤妻。面对女儿，金智英必须隐藏起脆弱，做她无坚不摧的母亲。那么，真正的金智英究竟在哪儿呢？长久的压抑和挣扎中，金智英患上了心理疾病，郑大贤决定和妻子一起接受心理咨询，共同面对命运设置给他们的难题。

一晃眼多年过去，爱莲娜（玛格丽塔·马祖可 Margherita Mazzucco 饰）和莉拉（盖娅·吉拉切 Gaia Girace 饰）都长大成人。莉拉嫁给了斯特凡诺（乔万尼·阿穆拉 Giovanni Amura 饰）开始了并不幸福的婚后生活，而爱莲娜则进入大学，前往比萨继续深造。 在海边度假时，两个女孩同她们的童年玩伴尼诺（弗朗西斯·塞尔皮科 Francesco Serpico 饰）重逢了，爱莲娜依然无法抗拒尼诺所散发出来的魅力，而尼诺似乎对莉拉更加的感兴趣。果不其然，尼诺和莉拉走到了一起。爱尼诺至深的莉拉决定离开斯特凡诺，和尼诺私奔，但眼前的这个男人，真的要比斯特凡诺更加优秀吗？当莉拉的腹中怀上了孩子后，尼诺选择了离开她，无家可归的莉拉不得不再次向斯特凡诺低头。

An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

A bittersweet portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights, in this very modern mix of fatalism and hedonism, sustaining a merry-go-round of broken dreamers. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the thoroughly disarming confessional of a woman so totally detached, she’s utterly lost, and ultimately wondering what the hell she ought to be doing in life. Much like the rest of us.

2017 film by Nora Twomey