Most Successful Films by Female Directors
10 Female-Directed Films That Saw Huge Box Office Success
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey and its sequels, both books and movies, have a massive following, so nobody's surprised that the first film is on this list. With Sam Taylor-Johnson (who also directed Nowhere Boy) at the helm of the 2015 hit, making the scandalous book come to life was much easier. Clearly, her hard work paid off, because the first film in the franchise earned $572 million. The second film had a male director and only brought in $378.8 million, which is . . . pretty good.
But not as good as Taylor-Johnson's film.
