Best Female Lead movies of 2016

Actors : Tito Alexander Gomez, Natalia Polo, Jesús Vásquez,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Amparo flees the convent and lands in a marginal neighborhood at her sister's house. Cousin Libardo becomes infatuated with Amparo, forcing her to live under his roof; the Animal's family, ...

Actors : Karlee Roberts, Izzy Palmieri, Lilla Crawford, Tom Degnan,
Directors : Marlee Roberts,

An overambitious high school freshman tries to control her life by controlling her weight.

Actors : Sahar Dolatshahi, Ali Mosaffa, Alireza Aghakhani, Setareh Pesyani,
Directors : Behnam Behzadi,

With fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the 'inversion" of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination.

Actors : Adèle Haenel, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Vega Cuzytek, Solène Rigot,
Directors : Arnaud des Pallières,

A young woman who moves to Paris with a disaster past. When she become a woman and think she's finally free from her past's shadows, some characters show up and she gets the chance to become an unique heroine.

Actors : Konstantin Yushkevich, Anna Chipovskaya, Ilya Lyubimov, Pyotr Fyodorov,
Directors : Renat Davletyarov,

Contemporary Russia. Sasha, a beautiful, young photographer, finds her lover, a successful artist, murdered. The police suspect her and the killers want to silence her. She goes on the run from all as she tries to solve this mystery.

Actors : Roxane Duran, Joel Basman, Carla Juri, Albrecht Schuch,
Directors : Christian Schwochow,

The life and career of the breakthrough German painter, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Actors : Emma Holzer, Jon Gries, Rosanna Arquette, Bradford Anderson,
Directors : Maria Pulera,

Shelly needs to catch a killer in order to prove her innocence in her brother's murder. Along the way she meets love, sorrow, and persecution. A journey of self perception as she finally realizes her destiny.

Actors : Debi Derryberry, Larissa Gallagher, Salli Saffioti, Cassandra Morris,

When Dracula meets Frankie, they decide to create a school. But recruiting students always comes with its trials and tribulations.

Actors : Jussi Vatanen, Eedit Patrakka, Lotta Kaihua, Antti Holma,
Directors : Tiina Lymi,

A woman finds out that his boyfriend has been living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl named Anna running ...

Actors : Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Paco Tous, Asier Etxeandia,
Directors : Marina Seresesky,

A mature woman who works as prostitute finds an unexpected opportunity of redemption in the way of a little child girl.

Actors : Zita Aretz, Karin Hanczewski, Paul Matzke,
Directors : Julius Schultheiß,

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man and flat to flat. One night in her local bar she bumps into Marcel,...

Actors : Geert Van Rampelberg, Alexandra Lamy, Catherine Aymerie, Barbara Sarafian,
Directors : Christophe Van Rompaey,

Vincent (17) wants to commit suicide as to take a stand against the problems of the world today. His giddy French aunt makes it her mission to save him. Only she's not without problems herself..

Actors : David Schütter, Cro, Marc Benjamin, Peri Baumeister,
Directors : Martin Schreier,

Dawid, Vanessa and Ludwig are the finalists at a pitch-competition for a movie about the German Rap phenomenon CRO. As the three youngsters work out their extraordinary film ideas, they must fight through unexpected personal challenges.

Actors : Heidi Toini, Christian Bujeau, Bente Børsum, Rolf Kristian Larsen,
Directors : Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken,

An elderly woman has secluded herself in her remote home in the French countryside, when a young foreign couple on vacation suddenly intrudes on her isolated life.

Actors : Colin Critchley, Cait Bliss, Dave Klasko, Jason Martin,
Directors : Erlingur Thoroddsen,

A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little Lucas' closet.

Actors : Jana Civzele, Edvins Mekss, Sabine Timoteo, Baiba Broka,
Directors : Viesturs Kairiss,

In the early morning of June 14, 1941, under Stalin's orders, over 40 000 people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were arrested, shoved into cattle cars and dispatched to permanent exile ...

Actors : Mária Gindert, Bálint Sótonyi, Angéla Stefanovics, Miklós B. Székely,
Directors : Benedek Fliegauf,

A mother seeks out her estranged father in the aftermath of her mother's death.

Actors : Patrick Toomey, Mel Raido, Morjana Alaoui, Craig Conway,
Directors : Shaun Robert Smith,

A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic but the burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.

Actors : Gillian Chung, Karen Mok, Yan Tang, Jing Wu,
Directors : Jeffrey Lau,

The third chapter of the cult-classic fantasy saga : A Chinese Odyssey.

Actors : Linnea Quigley, Adam Ahlbrandt, Kacie Marie, J.D. Brown,
Directors : Adam Ahlbrandt,

In 1987, a group of film students go scout an abandoned resort in the Pennsylvania wilderness, becoming real victims in another film.