Best Female Lead movies on netflix that are award winners or nominees

Still Alice(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.



Tully(2018)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn.



Pieces of a Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.



August: Osage County(2013)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



The Lost Daughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.



The Prom(2020)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.



Cake(2014)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group while grappling with her own, very raw personal tragedy.



Beyond the Lights(2014)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.



The Other Side of the Mountain(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.