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Story of Women

Story of Women

1988, Movie, 1h 48min

Isabelle Huppert won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival for her riveting performance in this tale of wartime survival based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, one of the last women to be executed by guillotine in France. Struggling to survive in Nazi-occupied France, impoverished mother Marie (Huppert) finds success and a chance at a better life by performing clandestine abortions—work that puts her in conflict with the Vichy regime’s brutal ban against the practice, which it regards as a “crime against the state.”

Country: France

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Isabelle Huppert,

François Cluzet,

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You can stream Story of Women on: The Criterion Channel

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Story of Women include Schindler's List, Out of Africa, The Last Emperor, The Long Walk Home, Malcolm X, Empire of the Sun.

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Story of Women was released in theaters on October 13, 1989.