Best Female Lead movies

Actors : Dey Young, Vincent Van Patten, P.J. Soles, Clint Howard,

A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

Actors : Elizabeth Olsen, Catherine Keener, Nat Wolff, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.

Actors : Adam Lustick, Iliza Shlesinger, Britney Young, Christopher Nicholas Smith,
Directors : Kimmy Gatewood,

After years of putting her career first, a stand-up comic meets a guy who seems perfect: smart, nice, successful and possibly too good to be true.

Actors : Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan, Emily Blunt, Ned Bellamy,
Directors : Gregory Jacobs,

Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

Actors : Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney,
Directors : Frank Marshall,

When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.

Actors : Kelly O'Sullivan, Braden Crothers, Charin Alvarez, William Drain,
Directors : Alex Thompson,

After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.

Actors : Lauryn Canny, Adrianna Cramer Curtis, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young ...

Actors : Timothy Olyphant, Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Theodore Melfi,

After Lilly suffers a loss, a combative Starling takes nest beside her quiet home. The feisty bird taunts and attacks the grief-stricken Lilly. On her journey to expel the Starling, she rediscovers her will to live and capacity for love.

Actors : Keira Knightley, Adam Levine, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld,
Directors : John Carney,

A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.

Actors : Gillian Jacobs, Josh Wiggins, Forrest Goodluck, Jemaine Clement,
Directors : Kris Rey,

Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate is invited to speak at her alma matter by her former professor. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students.

Actors : Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue, Jesse Lee Soffer, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : Davis Guggenheim,

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Lothaire Bluteau, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Mary Harron,

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to ...

Actors : Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Rosie Perez,
Directors : Dee Rees,

A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton, Lucas Hedges,
Directors : Peter Hedges,

Follows the charming yet troubled Ben Burns (Hedges), who returns home to his unsuspecting family one fateful Christmas Eve. Ben's wary mother Holly Burns (Roberts) welcomes her beloved ...

Actors : Mariah Carey, Eric Benét, Da Brat, Max Beesley,
Directors : Vondie Curtis-Hall,

A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.

Actors : Amir AboulEla, Adriana Alexander, David Andriole, Pamela Anderson,
Directors : David Hogan,

Post-apocalyptic remake of Casablanca (1942) set in a sleazy nightclub.

Actors : Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Brittany Snow, Dana Davis,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Actors : Emmanuel Barco, Kabrina Adams, Thaddeus Daniels, Tom Bruno,
Directors : Crystal Moselle,

A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.

Actors : Damian Lewis, Ben Radcliffe, Thomasin McKenzie,
Directors : Jim O'Hanlon,

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.

Actors : Paul McGann, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance,
Directors : David Fincher,

After her last encounter, Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina Fury 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor.