Films whose female characters practise a profession usually exerted by men

Films whose female characters practise a profession usually exerted by men

 

It's getting harder to find such professions, at least in Hollywood eyes.

Has there been a movie about female fire-fighters?

 

G.I. Jane. Demi Moore as a Navy SEAL.

 

Million Dollar Baby
The Quick and the Dead

 

Heart Like a Wheel (1983) -- female race car driver

 

Wildcats (1986) -- female football coach of men

 

Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate" as ruthless political power broker and KGB spy handler.

 

Eddie (1996) -- female professional basketball coach of men

 

Girlfight (2000) -- female competitive boxer

 

Walled In (2009) -- 'Sam' is a female engineer for a demolition company

 

North Country (2005), a woman becomes a miner

 

Flashdance- welder

 

I just watched Cellar Dweller, a horror movie from the 80s. The main female character is a comic book artist, which is practically an all-male field in real life.

 

Rachel Griffiths plays an electricity-pylon painter in 'Among Giants'.

 

Amelia (2009) (characters) amelia earhart

 

The Abyss (1989)

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Lindsey Brigman, the designer of the deep sea oil exploration rig where the film takes place

 

There was a 1988 TV movie "Root: The Gift" that had Kate Mulgrew as a bounty hunter of escaped slaves in 1775.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Gift

 

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