Woman's film marriage plot. The female protagonists in these movies are driven by something other than romantic love. Within British cinema, David Leland returned to the formula of the 1980s woman's film in "The Land Girls" (1998). The film tells the story of three young women during World War II and offers its heroines the opportunity to escape their old lives. "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002) emphasizes the key generic theme of female friendship and casts the heroine in a conflict between the restrictions of her traditional Sikh upbringing and her aspirations to become a football player. Lynne Ramsay's "Morvern Callar" is
A Nice Girl Like Me A Nice Girl Like Me A Nice Girl Like Me is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Desmond Davis. The plot revolves around a girl who lives with her shrewd aunts, goes on a trip, gets pregnant, and must lie to her aunts that the baby is not hers. It was shot on location in Paris, Venice and London around Chiswick and Hammersmith riverside. The film was originally meant to star Stanley Baker. "The Spinning Image" wrote, "it was regarded at the time as a glossy exercise in marrying cinema advert visuals to a would-be daring plot about unmarried