Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

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 : 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 : 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 : Lucy Boynton, Katee Sackhoff, Nick Moran, Richard Mylan,
Directors : Caradog W. James,

A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

Actors : Jeremy Gardner, Dora Madison, Rhys Wakefield, Tru Collins,
Directors : Joe Begos,

A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Actors : Maxine Peake, Will Forte, Edward MacLiam, Ciara Gallagher,
Directors : Steph Green,

An American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.

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 Louwyck, Bastien Bouillon, Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot,
Directors : Zoé Wittock,

Jeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated with carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That's when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park's new flagship attraction.

Actors : Christopher Lloyd, Vera Farmiga, Lewis MacDougall, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Shana Feste,

Laura and her son Henry are forced to drive her estranged, pot-dealing, carefree father Jack across country after being kicked out of a nursing home.

Actors : Malic White, Jessie Pinnick, Rebecca Spence, James Vincent Meredith,
Directors : Stephen Cone,

Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the ...

Actors : Rohit Saraf, Zaira Wasim, Farhan Akhtar, Priyanka Chopra,
Directors : Shonali Bose,

Based on the love story of a couple spanning 25 years and told through the lens of their spunky teenage daughter Aisha Chaudhary, who was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.

Actors : Imogen Poots, Molly McCann, Danielle Ryan, Jesse Eisenberg,
Directors : Lorcan Finnegan,

A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.

Actors : Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Anthony J. Sharpe, Benjamin Hoetjes, Jessica McNamee,
Directors : Andrew Traucki,

Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.

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 : 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 : 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 : Ella Purnell, Diane Farr, Joshua Leonard, Brian Geraghty,
Directors : Frank Hall Green,

After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness.

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 : Alia Bhatt, Durgesh Kumar, Pradeep Nagar, Randeep Hooda,
Directors : Imtiaz Ali,

Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.

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.