Best Female Lead movies

Actors : Adam Donaghey, Marcus M. Mauldin, Nicole Beharie, Liz Mikel, Alexis Chikaeze, Kendrick Sampson,
Directors : Channing Godfrey Peoples,

A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Christopher Eccleston, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes,
Directors : Shekhar Kapur,

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Actors : Mariam Bokeria, Lika Babluani, Data Zakareishvili, Zurab Gogaladze,

Set in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992. Friends Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.

Actors : Magne-Håvard Brekke, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Valérie Bonneton, Lola Créton,
Directors : Mia Hansen-Løve,

A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan's 8-year absence from exploring the world.

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Laura Morante, Isabelle Carré, Pierre Arditi,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Actors : Dylan Baker, Trent Ford, Allison Janney, Mandy Moore,
Directors : Clare Kilner,

A teenager (Moore), disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. Then this new guy (Ford) comes along...

Actors : David Lovgren, Katharine Isabelle, Tristan Risk, Antonio Cupo,

The allure of easy money sends Mary Mason, a medical student, into the world of underground surgeries which ends up leaving more marks on her than her so called "freakish" clients.

Actors : Zach Gilford, Michael Keaton, Carol Burnett, Alexis Bledel,
Directors : Vicky Jenson,

Ryden Malby graduates from college and is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family, while she attempts to find a job, the right guy, and just a hint of where her life is headed.

Actors : Félix Maritaud, Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca, Carloto Cotta, Sara Klimoska, Noomi Rapace,
Directors : Goran Stolevski,

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.

Actors : Anton Yelchin, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Paul Sparks,
Directors : Cory Finley,

Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Audrey Tautou, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Actors : Patrick Heusinger, Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Stephen Pelinski,
Directors : Ali Selim,

In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.

Actors : Dave Franco, Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace,
Directors : Josh Boone,

A mother and daughter must grapple with what's left after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover themselves.

Actors : Kathryn Hahn, Link Ruiz, Jane Lynch, Cesar Garcia,
Directors : Jill Soloway,

Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life and career that's gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to...

Actors : Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Mark Woodbury, Michael Kaycheck,
Directors : Daniel Minahan,

A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson, Mélanie Thierry,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella...

Actors : Emma Watson, Richenda Carey, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist,
Directors : Florian Gallenberger,

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

Actors : Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya,
Directors : Nina Paley,

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Christina Ricci, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke,
Directors : Sally Potter,

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Actors : Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Abby Quinn, Billy Crudup,
Directors : Bart Freundlich,

A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata travels to New York to meet a benefactor.