Best Female Lead movies of 2023

Actors : Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Lubna Azabal,
Directors : Jawad Rhalib,

Brussels teacher Amal encourages students' passion for reading and freedom of expression, despite risks. Her daring approach leaves a mark on pupils and families.

Actors : Marie Bach Hansen, Mihlo Olsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard,
Directors : Karoline Lyngbye,

The creative couple Stine and Teit and their young son Nemo leave their urban life in Copenhagen behind in favour of an isolated forest in Sweden, where they hope to find themselves as individuals.

Actors : Ana Wagener, Omar Banana, Alex de la Croix, Alba Flores,
Directors : Alejandro Marín,

It follows a mother who is involved in the homosexual movement of the seventies.

Actors : Joseph Zada, Davida McKenzie, Essie Randles,
Directors : Luke Rynderman, Adam Kamien,

Follows the unsolved 'Burger Chef Murders' of 1978 that claimed the lives of four teenagers in Speedway, Indiana.

Actors : Nataliya Sumskaya, Nazar Zadneprovskiy, Nataliya Denisenko, Elena Kravets,

Mavka - a soul of the Forest - faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human - the talented young musician...

Actors : Diego Martín, Sara Sálamo, Inma Cuesta,
Directors : Juana Macías,

The Gallardos are a rich and respected family who spend their summers in a farmhouse cared for down to the smallest detail by Amparito, Tata, who, for the family's three children, Teresa, Benja and Aura, has been like a second mother.

Actors : Ignacyo Matynia, Karlee Eldridge, Maddison Bullock,
Directors : Lexi Giovagnoli,

Samantha goes home to help her love struck sister, Emily, during the holidays. She discovers that Emily and Tony can not be together unless Samantha attracts and dates the unpleasant Parker Williams, an owner of a competing winery.

Actors : Joe Davidson, Temuera Morrison, Isabel Lucas, Christopher Pate,
Directors : Clive Fleury,

Four surfing sons plan a tribute 'surfari' to a small beach town for one of their fathers murdered three decades earlier. But some road trips are to die for.

Actors : Jessica Morris, Grace Patterson, Mason Mecartea, Lucy Loken,

The film focuses on a college student trying to clear her name after her boyfriend dies in a freak accident.

Actors : Meghan Carrasquillo, Francisco Angelini, Martijn Kuiper, Noam Sigler,
Directors : Anthony C. Ferrante,

An unrelenting shark turns a couple's dream vacation into a nightmare when they are stranded at sea and forced to fight for their lives.

Actors : Vinay Forrt, Rajisha Vijayan, Alencier Ley Lopez, Priya Prakash Varrier,
Directors : Suraj Varma,

Two girls open a beauty parlor in a small town, gaining initial support from the townspeople. However, an incident triggers a perilous cat-and-mouse game, forcing them to embark on a journey to escape the trap.

Actors : Sarah Dumont, Josh Plasse, Katherine Hughes, Frank Grillo, Will Peltz, Jaime King,
Directors : Remy Grillo,

While a couple edits a Charles Manson movie in an Airbnb, the film's dark events begin to come true in the mysterious plot of a hidden leader.

Actors : Niko El Santo Zavero, Kyle Rappaport, Tina Krause, Julie Anne Prescott,
Directors : Will Collazo Jr.,

Camp Blood is under new ownership as the updated "Camp Blackwood". Locals hope to bury the infamous clown killer's past, and release the victims from their torment. But when a pastor with ...

Actors : Amy DiLorenzo, Allegra Sweeney, Tim Coyle, Chynna Rae Shurts, Sebastian Bjorn, Laura Welsh, Jax Kellington,
Directors : Calvin Morie McCarthy,

Five girls, five best friends, all haunted by their past mistakes of an April Fools prank gone fatally wrong, meet again after two years for a summer week long getaway in the woods to reconnect and reconcile.

Actors : Anzu Lawson, Roy Abramsohn, Joey Heyworth, Emily Roslyn Villarreal,
Directors : Farah White,

When Madeline flunks out of college and loses her job, she turns to her Aunt Grace for help.

Actors : Meera Nair, Johny Antony, Lena, Dhyan Sreenivasan,
Directors : Sandeep Reddy Vanga,

Actors : Amogelang Chidi, Loyiso Macdonald, Meme Ditshego, Terence Bridgett,
Directors : Stephina Zwane,

Through a year of 30th birthdays, four best friends navigate relationships, heartbreak and a shocking situation that threatens to tear them apart.

Actors : Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Anita Briem, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Hilmar Guðjónsson,
Directors : Elsa Maria Jakobsdóttir,

At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide

Actors : Liona Filippova, Alina Alekseeva, Polina Grents, Ksenia Gezha,
Directors : Mikhail Pogosov,

Kristina organizes parties for wealthy clients all over the world. Dozens of girls work for her. However, for everyone around her, she is an organizer of exhibitions of contemporary art. ...

Actors : Daniel Curtis Lee, David Lambert, Cortney Palm, Lindsey Shaw,
Directors : Hutch Dano,

A camping trip and forced intervention becomes a battle for survival, as five friends must fight not only their own demons but an evil in the woods.