Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

Actors : Carey Mulligan, Izzy Meikle-Small, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley,
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 : 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 : Mackenzie Davis, Asher Miles Fallica, Ron Livingston, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

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

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 : Hugh Grant, Meryl Streep, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Helberg,
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 : Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter,
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 : Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Kevin Costner,
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 : Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Angarano,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

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

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

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

Actors : Matthias Schoenaerts, Céline Sallette, Armand Verdure, Marion Cotillard,
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 : Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly, Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz,
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 : 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 : 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 : Michelle Williams, Julia Ormond, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh,
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 : Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, 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 : 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 : 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 : Ellen Burstyn, Vanessa Kirby, Iliza Shlesinger, Shia LaBeouf,
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 : Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Actors : Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Frank Mosley,
Directors : Shane Carruth,

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.