Best Female Lead movies

Actors : Maya Hawke, Carey Mulligan, Matt Bomer, Bradley Cooper,
Directors : Bradley Cooper,

This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Milena Vukotic, Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson,
Directors : Mike Barker,

While retaining her secret identity, the illustrious Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt) saves Lady Windemere (Johansson) from making a grand social faux-pas with the scoundrelly Lord Darlington (Moore).

Actors : Julian Lerner, Jenna Ortega, Jennifer Garner, Edgar Ramírez,
Directors : Miguel Arteta,

A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests with a few ground rules on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.

Actors : Lucy Boynton, James Remar, Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka,
Directors : Oz Perkins,

Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.

Actors : Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai, Nikohl Boosheri, Soheil Parsa,
Directors : Maryam Keshavarz,

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.

Actors : Matthew Macfadyen, Kristine Froseth, Makenzie Leigh, Julia Garner,
Directors : Kitty Green,

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

Actors : António Fonseca, Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão,
Directors : Karim Aïnouz,

Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.

Actors : Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Actors : John Early, Sunita Mani, Ben Sinclair, John Reynolds, Amy Sedaris,

A young Brooklyn couple heads to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.

Actors : Cas Anvar, Naveen Andrews, Charles Edwards, Naomi Watts,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Actors : Karan Soni, Tiffany Haddish, Jacob Latimore, Rose Byrne, Salma Hayek, Destiny Adams,
Directors : Miguel Arteta,

Two friends with very different ideals start a beauty company together. One is more practical while the other wants to earn her fortune and live a lavish lifestyle.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Kali Rocha, Paul Rudd, Lena Cardwell,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

Actors : George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : John N. Smith,

An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.

Actors : Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley, Simon Reynolds, Philip Akin,
Directors : Franck Khalfoun,

A businesswoman is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.

Actors : Neil Melville, Sarah Snook, Katherine Slattery, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman, Greta Scacchi, Julia Davis,
Directors : Daina Reid,

Sarah Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, she must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.

Actors : Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas,
Directors : Sylvain Chomet,

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.

Actors : Ellen Page, Tammy Blanchard, Allison Janney, Evan Jonigkeit,
Directors : Sian Heder,

Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Manhattan housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.

Actors : Brittany Murphy, Kathy Bates, Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter,
Directors : Nick Hurran,

A woman snoops through her boyfriend's palm pilot and reveals his former girlfriends, which causes her to question why they're still listed in his little black book.

Actors : Domhnall Gleeson, Sonoya Mizuno, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Alex Garland,

A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I.

Actors : Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah,
Directors : Daniel Goldhaber,

A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.