Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

Actors : Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Justin Kelly,

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.

Actors : Sam Althuizen, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del Herbert-Jane, Imogen Archer,
Directors : Sophie Hyde,

16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.

Actors : Helene Bergsholm, Henriette Steenstrup, Malin Bjørhovde, Beate Støfring,
Directors : Jannicke Systad Jacobsen,

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Actors : Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Suzu Hirose, Kaho,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.

Actors : Allie MacDonald, Douglas Smith, Meat Loaf, Minnie Driver,
Directors : Jerome Sable,

A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.

Actors : Pedro Pascal, Luke Pitzrick, Jay Duplass, Sophie Thatcher,

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own ...

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Tony Shalhoub, Michelle Rodriguez, Caitlin Gerard,
Directors : Walter Hill,

After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.

Actors : Michelle Barthel, Mavie Hörbiger, Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger,
Directors : Marie Kreutzer,

A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.

Actors : Kate Arrington, Marika Engelhardt, Tim Hopper, James Vincent Meredith,
Directors : Jennifer Reeder,

A mystical teen noir that follows a young girl's disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents.

Actors : Catherine Deneuve, Némo Schiffman, Camille, Gérard Garouste,
Directors : Emmanuelle Bercot,

Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.

Actors : John Schneider, Jasmine Guy, Jason Burkey, Rachel Hendrix,

A college freshman's world is rocked when she learns she is the adopted survivor of a failed abortion.

Actors : Sanaa Lathan, Lynn Whitfield, Ricky Whittle, Lyriq Bent,
Directors : Haifaa Al-Mansour,

Violet Jones tired of waiting for her longtime boyfriend to propose, breaks up with him. But old feelings, and heaps of jealousy, no doubt, arise when he promptly begins dating another woman.

Actors : Marin Ireland, Josh Wiggins, Jim Gaffigan, Atheena Frizzell,
Directors : Paul Harrill,

A single mom and part-time paranormal investigator is asked to look into a possible "haunting" at a widower's farmhouse in East Tennessee.

Actors : David Strathairn, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Saniyya Sidney, Lorraine Toussaint,
Directors : Julia Hart,

A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

Actors : T.C. Stallings, Karen Abercrombie, Priscilla C. Shirer, Beth Moore,
Directors : Alex Kendrick,

A seemingly perfect family looks to fix their problems with the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman.

Actors : Christophe Sermet, Laurence Ursino, Kool Shen, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

Actors : Surveen Chawla, Lehar Khan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte,
Directors : Leena Yadav,

In the arid landscape of Rajashthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Actors : Ben Rosenfield, Joshua Leonard, Taissa Farmiga, Lindsay Burdge,
Directors : Hannah Fidell,

A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.

Actors : Geena Davis, Colin Farrell, John Malkovich, Jessica Chastain, Common,
Directors : Tate Taylor,

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Actors : Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders, Chloë Grace Moretz,
Directors : J Blakeson,

Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.