Best Female Lead movies

Actors : Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent,
Directors : Don McKellar,

To survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary.

Actors : Mia Wasikowska, Grace Delrue, Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps,
Directors : Mia Hansen-Løve,

A couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between reality and fiction start to blur.

Actors : Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Amber Heard, Laura-Leigh Claire,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Andrea Berloff,

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

Actors : Margherita Buy, Nanni Moretti, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Actors : Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai, Claudia Ieremia, Katia Pascariu,
Directors : Radu Jude,

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Actors : Julia Nightingale, Regina Hall, Talia Ryder, Zoe Renee,
Directors : Mariama Diallo,

Three women strive to find their place at an elite Northeastern university. When anonymous racist attacks target a Black freshman, who insists she is being haunted by ghosts, each woman must determine where the real menace lies.

Actors : Adam Brody, John Krasinski, Anna Faris, Roscoe Lee Browne,
Directors : Gregg Araki,

After a young actress unknowingly eats her roommate's marijuana cupcakes, her day becomes a series of misadventures.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Actors : Ken Jeong, Bradley Cooper, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church,
Directors : Phil Traill,

Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.

Actors : Jüri Järvet, Natalya Bondarchuk, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy, Donatas Banionis,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Actors : Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Simon West,

During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.

Actors : Frank Grillo, Naomie Harris, Mike Colter, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : Deon Taylor,

A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder.

Actors : Stelios Yiakmis, John Howard, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in ...

Actors : Lynette Curran, Damian de Montemas, Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington,
Directors : Cate Shortland,

A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.

Actors : Rosario Flores, Leonor Watling, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Helen Mirren, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna-O'Prey,

Ensconced in her sprawling California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.

Actors : Eugene Levy, Mary-Kate Olsen, Andy Richter, Ashley Olsen,
Directors : Dennie Gordon,

One day in New York City, as Jane Ryan tries out for an overseas college program and her sister Roxy schemes to meet her favorite punk rockers, a series of mishaps throws their day into ...

Actors : Dagmara Dominczyk, Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen,
Directors : Sofia Coppola,

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

Actors : Haley Lu Richardson, Zoe Graham, Dylan Gelula, Regina Hall,
Directors : Andrew Bujalski,

The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.