This article looks at how female stereotypes are portrayed in Nigerian movies using a feminist critic point of view. It also identifies the most often used gender-stereotypical representations and ways of fighting the stereotyping for future movies. The article analyses how women are depicted in Nollywood movies and the method of combating the negative presentation of women, its implications and the way forward. This assessment revolves around Nigerian Nollywood movies. For this study, the quantitative research method via secondary data was adopted to collect necessary information for a period of 20 years (i.e. 2002-2022). Feminist cinema theory established the foundation for explaining the dominant depletion of women in movies. The paper reviewed and recognised the understudied efforts by many Nigerian actresses against women’s stereotyping in the Nigerian film industry. This implies that a good number, if not most actresses, aid women’s sexual objectification in Nollywood by accepting to play demeaning roles in films. This does not mean that all female actors in the industry are passive. While some actresses passively agree to play sexual roles, others do counter sexual objectification through overt or implicit resistance. The study concludes that encouraging positive portrayals of women in Nollywood movies is important. Only by altering the narrative tone of the film scripts can this be accomplished. This is a call for more women to work as scriptwriters and directors in Nollywood to create stories that adequately represent women and give them new roles and a voice