Review: ‘Love to Love You, Donna Summer’ and three more female-driven films to stream

‘Love to Love You, Donna Summer’ Although the late pop superstar Donna Summer became a household name as a 1970s disco diva, she was never one to chase chart-topping trends. ‘Victim/Suspect’ The title of director Nancy Schwartzman’s true-crime documentary is “Victim/Suspect,” but it could just as easily be “Investigative Reporter.” This riveting and righteously furious film is about two subjects: the worrying phenomenon of police departments discrediting and even arresting sexual assault victims; and the more promising trend of journalists doing their own research into cases that may have been closed too hastily. Their interest is twofold: to question whether the police really investigated thoroughly; and to show what happens to women who are pressured into dropping their charges and then become the subjects of headlines saying, “She admitted she lied.” Because most of the cops who worked these cases refused to be interviewed either for De Leon’s story or for this film, we’re left with the damning footage of their interrogations — which in some cases lasted hours and included blatant fabrications about the evidence the victims were not allowed to see. Available on Netflix; also playing theatrically, Bay Theater, Pacific Palisades ‘The Fire That Took Her’ It’s hard at times to watch Patricia E. Gillespie’s documentary “The Fire That Took Her,” which tells the harrowing and remarkable story of Judy Malinowski, a women who was doused with gasoline and set on fire by her ex-boyfriend, then stayed alive long enough to record testimony used posthumously at his homicide trial.