Presented with Porsche Cars Australia
To celebrate the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion, we’ve curated a selection of films where women take the wheel, seize control and carve out their own paths.
The driver’s seat has long been a visual short-hand in cinema for power, agency, and control, however, for decades it was strangely rare to see a woman behind the wheel. Join us as we celebrate films that flip that gender bias, pump the gas and put the pedal to the metal.
Porsche Cars Australia is proud to be Lead Exhibition Partner of Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion.

Collections
Women Behind the Wheel
Mad Max: Fury Road
2h
0m
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Feature, Action
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2015
Holy Motors
1h
55m
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Feature, Drama, Fantasy
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2012
Drive My Car
2h
59m
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Feature, Drama
•
2022
Birds Of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
1h
49m
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Feature, Action
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2020
Mabel at the Wheel
23m
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Short, Comedy
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1914
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