Best Female Lead movies

Actors : John MacKay, Rebecca Nelson, Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly,
Directors : Hal Hartley,

After being thrown away from home, Maria encounters a lady who complains of not having children. Almost getting raped, she ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the lady.

Actors : Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, John Corbett,
Directors : Nia Vardalos,

After travelling to Greece for a family reunion, a woman attempts to locate her deceased father's childhood friends.

Actors : Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Carey Means, Andy Merrill,

An action epic that explores the origins of Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, better known as the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

Actors : Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Chandler Canterbury,
Directors : Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,

After a car accident, a young woman who is caught between life and death, meets a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.

Actors : Pat Healy, Vinessa Shaw, Lisette Alexis, Sierra McCormick,
Directors : Sean King O'Grady,

After Melissa and her family seek shelter from a storm, they become trapped. With no sign of rescue, Melissa comes to realize that she and her girlfriend Amy might have something to do with the horrors that threaten her family.

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Xiaohe Lü, Zhou Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong,
Directors : James Gray,

A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

Actors : Takehiro Hira, Carice van Houten, Alexandra Daddario, Andrew Rothney,
Directors : William Olsson,

Haunted by her past, an English teacher explores love and dust with a dashing yakuza gangster in Tokyo.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : James Franco, Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, Barbara E. Robertson,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.

Actors : Luke Hemsworth, Maggie Q, Kat Ingkarat, Alex Essoe,
Directors : Darren Lynn Bousman,

A vacationing couple must discover the mystery behind a strange video that shows one of them killing the other.

Actors : Beyoncé, Diana Ross, Blue Ivy Carter,
Directors : Beyoncé, Mark Ritchie,

Beyoncé in performance at her record-breaking RENAISSANCE World Tour, and the creative mastermind behind it.

Actors : Ben Shenkman, Michael Cerveris, Timothy Hutton, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : John Krasinski,

A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Actors : Hamed Behdad, Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Babak Mirzakhani,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Actors : Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard,
Directors : Lucile Hadzihalilovic,

A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Philippe Katerine, Marion Cotillard, Jean Rochefort,

1941. France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Actors : Lewis Macleod, Sally Hawkins, Helen Katamba, Shonagh Price,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Actors : Florence Viala, Suzanne Lindon, Frédéric Pierrot, Arnaud Valois,
Directors : Suzanne Lindon,

A 16 year old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Maya Banno, Takahiro Satô, Satomi Tezuka,
Directors : Katsuhito Ishii,

A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Ricki Lake, Shirley MacLaine, Miguel Sandoval,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant when her boyfriend kicks her out. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The ...