What to watch on Netflix, according to women crushing it in front of and behind the camera

As Hollywood works to incorporate more women in front of and behind the camera, Netflix has launched the category "Because She Watched" with UN Women. Because She Watched, launched ahead of International Women's Day, features content created by and for women and is curated by entertainment powerhouses.

The collection consists of movies and TV shows that inspired women in entertainment around the world, including Sophia Loren, Janet Mock, Salma Hayek, Yalitza Aparicio, Millie Bobby Brown, Mindy Kaling, Laurie Nunn, Lana Condor, Petra Costa, and Ava DuVernay. The collection, which includes content that Netflix says "started important, often hard, conversations that have helped to challenge the way we see the world" will be available to stream all year on Netflix.

Laverne Cox, who selected Brené Brown: The Call to Courage, a documentary about choosing courage over comfort, also noted the importance of Orange is the New Black for her career.

“Orange Is the New Black is the first project where I felt genuinely empowered as a woman thanks to the woman at the helm of the show, Jenji Kohan, and the many women directors, writers, producers, and crew members as well as the stories that centered diverse women in an unprecedented way," said Cox in a Netflix statement. "This show created a space and platform for me as a black openly trans woman that created space for other openly trans women of all races to be truly seen in the depth of our humanity.”

The theme of creating space was echoed by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia.

"This collaboration is about taking on the challenge of telling women’s stories and showing women in all their diversity" said Bhatia. "It’s about making visible the invisible, and proving that only by fully representing and including women on screen, behind the camera and in our narratives overall, society will truly flourish."

Here are the curated shows and movies, including the women who nominated them. (Foreign language titles have been translated to their U.S. titles if available in the U.S.; not all of the below seem to be.)

Alejandra Azcárate - Locked Up

Alice Wu - Frances Ha

Andrea Barata Ribeiro - Sex Education

Anna Winger - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Ava DuVernay - A Wrinkle in Time

Barbara Lopez  - Scandal 

Beren Saat - Bird Box

Bruna Mascarenhas - Quien Te Cantará

Cecilia Suárez -  Marriage Story

Chris Nee - Orange is the New Black

Christian Serratos - The Goop Lab 

Cindy Bishop - Anne with an E

Elena Fortes - Atlantics

Esther Acebo - Chef's Table: Bo Songvisava 

Fadily Camara - How to Get Away with Murder

Fanny Herrero - Je Parle Toute Seule

Fatimah Abu Bakar - Babies

Francesca Comencini - What Happened, Miss Simone?

Giovanna Ewbank - Most Beautiful Thing

Hanna Ardéhn - Silence of the Lambs

Hazar Erguclu - House of Cards

Hend Sabry - Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Ida Elise Broch - RuPaul's Drag Race

Janet Mock - Paris Is Burning

Joyce Cheng - Queer Eye

Juliana Vicente - When They See Us

Kemi Adetiba - King of Boys 

Kiara Advani - Lust Stories

Lali Espósito - Notting Hill

Lana Condor - Grace and Frankie

Lauren Morelli  - Julie & Julia

Laurie Nunn  - The Keepers

Laverne Cox  - Brené Brown: The Call to Courage

Liz Garbus - She's Gotta Have It

Logan Browning - Someone Great 

Lynn Fainchtein - 2001: Space Odyssey

Marcela Benjumea - Dead to Me

Mercedes Morán - Aquarius

Mika Ninagawa - In the Realm of the Senses

Millie Bobby Brown - Miss Americana

Mina El Hammani - What the F*ck is Going on?

Mindy Kaling - Chewing Gum

Mira Lesmana  - ROMA

Mithila Palkar - Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette

Nahnatchka Khan - Young Adult

Ngô Thanh Vân - Wonder Woman

Nosipho Dumisa - Gravity 

Pathy Dejesus - Raising Dion

Paulina Garcia - Deux Jours, Une Nuit

Petra Costa - Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Salma Hayek - Unbelievable

Sandi Tan - Russian Doll

Shefali Shah - Delhi Crime

Sophia Loren - The Crown

Yalitza Aparicio - Knock Down the House