Best Female Lead movies

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Naomi Ackie, Tamara Tunie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders,
Directors : Kasi Lemmons,

A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.

Actors : Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.

Actors : Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.

Actors : Peyton Kennedy, Natalie Brown, Peter DaCunha, Jonathan Watton,

Four short horror films that are directed and written by women.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Erin Kellyman, June Squibb,
Directors : Scarlett Johansson,

After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, tells a tale that takes on its own dangerous life.

Actors : Daniel Franzese, Andrew Howard, Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson,
Directors : Steven R. Monroe,

A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.

Actors : Christine Woods, Ray Romano, Mark Duplass, Jen Sung,
Directors : Alex Lehmann,

An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Actors : Eero Milonoff, Ann Petrén, Jörgen Thorsson, Eva Melander,
Directors : Ali Abbasi,

A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.

Actors : Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente,
Directors : Tom Tykwer,

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Actors : Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Sophie Stuckey, Rose Byrne,
Directors : Tim Fywell,

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

Actors : Melora Walters, Patch Darragh, Madeline Brewer, Devin Druid,
Directors : Daniel Goldhaber,

Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she's been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.

Actors : Helena Zengel, Lisa Hagmeister, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Albrecht Schuch,
Directors : Nora Fingscheidt,

On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni's untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair.

Actors : David Morse, John Lithgow, Cristiana Dell'Anna,
Directors : Alejandro Monteverde,

After witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children.

Actors : Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric,
Directors : Jan de Bont,

A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.

Actors : Caity Lotz, Mark Steger, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Nicholas McCarthy,

As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother's death and the disappearance of her sister, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.

Actors : Catherine Deneuve, Clémentine Grenier, Ethan Hawke, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

A stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a mother who never grows old.

Actors : Alison Brie, Jay Ellis, Danny Pudi, Kiersey Clemons,
Directors : Dave Franco,

On a trip to her hometown, workaholic Ally reminisces with her ex Sean and starts to question everything about the person she's become. Things only get more confusing when she meets Cassidy, who reminds her of the person she used to be.

Actors : Amina Annabi, Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya,
Directors : Ruba Nadda,

A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.