Best Female Lead movies of recent years

Actors : Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Anne Hathaway, Sam Nivola, Shea Whigham, Jefferson White, Thomasin McKenzie,
Directors : William Oldroyd,

A woman's friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.

Actors : Jim Belushi, Thora Birch, Imogen Poots,
Directors : Kristen Stewart,

A woman, after an abusive childhood, escapes into competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before finding her voice through writing.

Actors : Cary Crankson, Carys Bowkett, Alin Uzun, Lola Campbell,
Directors : Charlotte Regan,

Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman,
Directors : Shawn Simmons,

A reformed teenage getaway driver is dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.

Actors : Corey Mylchreest, Dougray Scott, Sofia Carson,
Directors : Iain Morris,

When Anna, an ambitious young American woman, sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream, she has her life completely on track until she meets a charming and clever local who profoundly alters both of their lives.

Actors : Lily Gladstone, Shea Whigham, Ryan Begay, Isabel Deroy-Olson,
Directors : Erica Tremblay,

Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.

Actors : Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince,
Directors : Neil Burger,

A woman seeks revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.

Actors : Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Shaun Thomas, Mia McKenna-Bruce,
Directors : Molly Manning Walker,

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

Actors : Benjamin Bratt, Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove,
Directors : Mark Waters,

Lana's daughter Emma returns from London and announces that she's getting married next month. Things become more complicated when Lana learns that the man who stole Emma's heart is the son of the man who broke hers years ago.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Ian Harding, Kristin Chenoweth,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

Two resentful exes must awkwardly spend Christmas together after they learn that their new partners are siblings.

Actors : Yumi Asô, Tomokazu Miura, Tokio Emoto, Sayuri Ishikawa,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A janitor in Japan drives between jobs listening to rock music.

Actors : Austin Abrams, Wrenn Schmidt, Jimmi Simpson, Brianna Bronger, Lewis Pullman, K.J. Baker, Eliza Scanlen,
Directors : Laurel Parmet,

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Actors : Paulo Saraiva, Cassandra Naud, Veronica Long,
Directors : Kurtis David Harder,

In Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

Actors : Jillian Bell, Amy Schumer, Will Forte,
Directors : Tyler Spindel,

When Lainy's plan to settle down and start a family falls apart, she puts on a fake baby bump, tells a lie and accidentally falls for her dream guy.

Actors : Felicity Jones, Denis Leary, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Showalter,

Claire plans a special Christmas, but is forgotten by her family. When they realize that she's missing, their holiday is at risk until she returns to give them the celebration they deserve.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Bill Holderman,

Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renée Zellweger, Leo Woodall,
Directors : Michael Morris,

After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son's science teacher.

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 : Jon Bernthal, Connie Nielsen, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vera Farmiga,
Directors : Ava DuVernay,

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Emma Myers, Ed Helms,
Directors : McG,

When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the Walkers to wake up to a full body switch, can they unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal, and soccer tryout?