This study examined women’s empowerment in Damsel, Swiped, and The Lost Daughter through feminist stylistic and visual-semiotic analysis to inform the development of gender-inclusive multimodal ESL learning materials. Grounded in Third-Wave Feminism and supported by feminist stylistics, visual grammar, multiliteracies pedagogy, and theoretical triangulation, the study employed a qualitative, interpretative, text-based, comparative multiple-case design. It did not involve human respondents; inste