This paper examines the films "The Crying Game" and "My Beautiful Laundrette" in terms of feminist theory. The two major
theories of feminism that are used to describe these two films are those of post- colonial and psychoanalytical thought. The implications present in these films is that there most certainly are aspects of each film that can be seen to accurately correspond to these distinctive
theories, but that neither film directly correlates to either one of these theories perfectly.