Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

Actors : Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small,
Directors : Mark Romanek,

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.

Actors : Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Patton Oswalt, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.

Actors : Asher Miles Fallica, Ron Livingston, Mackenzie Davis, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn.

Actors : Eiza González, Chris Messina, Alicia Witt, Peter Dinklage, Dianne Wiest, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : J Blakeson,

A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.

Actors : Kevin Costner, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael Cera,
Directors : Aaron Sorkin,

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska,
Directors : Tim Burton,

Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

Actors : Michael Fassbender, Michael Angarano, Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.

Actors : Céline Sallette, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure,
Directors : Jacques Audiard,

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville,
Directors : Robert Stromberg,

A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.

Actors : Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Hugh Grant, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Actors : Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly, Christoph Waltz, Rosa Salazar,
Directors : Robert Rodriguez,

A deactivated cyborg is revived, but cannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is.

Actors : Bill Murray, Jessica Henwick, Marlon Wayans, Jenny Slate, Rashida Jones,
Directors : Sofia Coppola,

A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.

Actors : Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Scarlett Johansson, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Rupert Sanders,

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Actors : Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Eddie Redmayne, Michelle Williams,
Directors : Simon Curtis,

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

Actors : Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen,
Directors : Joe Wright,

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

Actors : Michael McDonald, Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, Demián Bichir,
Directors : Paul Feig,

An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Tim Blake Nelson, Austin Stowell,
Directors : Nacho Vigalondo,

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City, and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Shia LaBeouf, Vanessa Kirby, Iliza Shlesinger,
Directors : Kornél Mundruczó,

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

Actors : Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney,
Directors : Chan-wook Park,

After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Chloë Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.