Little Women is a famous story written by Louisa May Alcott that follows the lives of four sisters in the 19th century. This study introduces the film adaptation of Little Women (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig and explores how it portrays the hierarchy of needs and the criteria of self-actualization in psychology. This study focuses on the main character, especially Jo March, and her journey towards fulfilling her needs, including physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
This study adopts a qualitative research approach and uses the film adaptation of Little Women as its main source of data, supported by various secondary sources, such as books, journals, websites, magazines, newspapers, and articles. The data collection process involves a careful watching of the film, identifying, classifying, and reducing the data into categorical order. This study applies Abraham Maslow’s humanistic psychology as its theoretical framework to analyze the hierarchy of needs and the criteria of self-actualization in the film.
As a result, it is found that the self-actualization needs of Jo March are fulfilled, and she has the criteria of self actualization that she is free from psychopathology, had progress through the hierarchy of needs, she has the B-value and the last is she able to used her talent to be what is her dream.

Keywords: Hierarchy of Needs, Criteria of Sefl Actualization, film, Little Women