Best Female Lead movies of 2017

Actors : David Midthunder, Sam Rockwell, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : Susanna White,

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

Actors : Jessica De Gouw, Thomas Cocquerel, T.J. Power, Shalom Brune-Franklin,
Directors : Ben C. Lucas,

After inventing a drug that induces time-compressed virtual realities, young Ren grapples with partner Sam over how to use their powerful creation.

Actors : Jake Lacy, Andie MacDowell, Neil Crone, Eliza Taylor,
Directors : Ernie Barbarash,

Before ambitious heiress Ellen Langford can inherit her father's gift business, she must deliver a special Christmas card to her dad's former partner in Snow Falls, the hometown she never ...

Actors : Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Christine Bottomley,
Directors : Adrian Shergold,

A woman who has a funny bone for a backbone.

Actors : Joanna Scanlan, Lily Newmark, Sacha Cordy-Nice, Loris Scarpa,
Directors : Deborah Haywood,

Super close Mother LYN and daughter IONA (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes '...

Actors : Nathaniel Martello-White, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Emily Beecham, Geraldine James,
Directors : Peter Mackie Burns,

'Daphne' is the vibrant character portrait of a young woman on the threshold of a much-needed change.

Actors : Amy Manson, Sheila Hancock, Paul Brannigan, Kevin Guthrie,
Directors : Simon Hunter,

To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.

Actors : André Wilms, Charlotte Rampling, Stéphanie Van Vyve, Simon Bisschop,
Directors : Andrea Pallaoro,

Intimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.

Actors : Sajal Ali, Akshaye Khanna, Sridevi, Adnan Siddiqui,
Directors : Ravi Udyawar,

A tale of how far a mother will go for the sake of her children.

Actors : Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, Irina Starshenbaum, Oleg Menshikov,
Directors : Fedor Bondarchuk,

After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth.

Actors : Oksana Fandera, Ilya Andryukov, Pavel Derevyanko, Lyubov Aksyonova,
Directors : Klim Shipenko,

USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.

Actors : Sacha Parkinson, Siobhan Finneran, Robert Emms, Steve Evets,
Directors : Dan Kokotajlo,

A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.

Actors : Sohum Shah, Jason Louder, Esha Tewari, Kangana Ranaut,
Directors : Hansal Mehta,

A socially criticized girl who is financially cornered, becomes an outlaw to dodge the situation.

Actors : Nicole Muñoz, Laurie Holden, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne,
Directors : Adam MacDonald,

A frustrated, angst-ridden teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.

Actors : Michele Martin, Laura James, Elisa Nixon, Robert Allen Mukes,
Directors : Kipp Tribble,

Trick is among five hostages trapped together, paralyzed from the neck down. While an FBI agent and former detective race against the clock to find their location, the group tries to figure a way out before their promised execution.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Nicholas Campbell, Théodore Pellerin, Mary Galloway,
Directors : Kathleen Hepburn,

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Callum Keith Rennie, Miranda Frigon,
Directors : Courtney Balaker,

A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on ...

Actors : Itziar Aizpuru, Elvira Mínguez, Marta Etura, Francesc Orella,
Directors : Fernando González Molina,

A female inspector confronts a serial killer while dealing with the ghosts of her past.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin, David Verdaguer, Natalia Tena,
Directors : Carlos Marques-Marcet,

Two women, Eva and Kat, and the best friend of one of them, Roger. A boat in the canals of London and a question: Is it possible to live love, family, and life in such different ways and yet remain united?

Actors : Andie MacDowell, Francesca Faridany, James Adomian, Chris O'Dowd,
Directors : Russell Harbaugh,

Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own.