Best Female Lead movies

Actors : Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Actors : Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jamie Babbit,

Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.

Actors : Ellen Page, Nina Dobrev, Diego Luna, James Norton,
Directors : Niels Arden Oplev,

Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.

Actors : Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard, Jeremy Piven, Jessica Alba,
Directors : Robert Rodriguez,

A retired spy is called back into action, and to bond with her new step-children, she invites them along for the adventure to stop the evil Timekeeper from taking over the world.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Howard Da Silva, Steve Forrest, Diana Scarwid,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Actors : Santiago Cabrera, Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Paola Giannini,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.

Actors : Ed Harris, Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales,
Directors : Kyle Hausmann-Stokes,

Engaged in a mysterious relationship with her dead best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran comes head to head with her Vietnam vet grandfather at the family's ancestral lake house.

Actors : Will Forte, Jeff Garlin, Dave Grohl, Whitney Cummings, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Foo Fighters,
Directors : BJ McDonnell,

Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album.

Actors : Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Ajiona Alexus, Gabrielle Union,
Directors : James McTeigue,

A woman fights to protect her family during a home invasion.

Actors : Jeanne Balibar, Elkin Díaz, Juan Pablo Urrego, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.

Actors : Vivica A. Fox, Mallori Johnson, Kara Young,
Directors : Aleshea Harris,

Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge: confronting a charged family history that will push them to extraordinary lengths.

Actors : Valentina de Angelis, Amy Brenneman, Sam Elliott, Joan Allen,
Directors : Campbell Scott,

An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

Actors : Guillaume Marquet, Patrick Mille, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman's innocence. But when the protégé's ideas become tempting enough for ...

Actors : Katja Riemann, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Katja von Garnier,

A young teenage werewolf (Bruckner) is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man (Dancy).

Actors : Juan Pablo Raba, Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz, John Gallagher Jr.,
Directors : Pierre Morel,

Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free.

Actors : Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Emily Beecham,
Directors : Jessica Hausner,

Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.

Actors : Jan Hammenecker, Pierre Gagnaire, Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Anh Hung Tran,

It tells the story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.

Actors : Rutina Wesley, Tre Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Boyd Banks,
Directors : Ian Iqbal Rashid,

Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.

Actors : Haley Lu Richardson, Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch, Melissa Rauch,
Directors : Bryan Buckley,

A foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist with local celebrity status reluctantly trains a rising Olympics aspirant.

Actors : Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Diane Lane,
Directors : Jan Komasa,

A provocative thriller about a very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement, "The Change," envelops the country.