New SUFFRAGETTE Clips and TV Spot Watch the new SUFFRAGETTE clips and TV spot! The film, directed by Sarah Gavron, stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, and Meryl Streep. SUFFRAGETTE will be released in theaters on October 23. A drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. Maud was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational.