Best Female Lead movies of 2016

Actors : Tony Shalhoub, Hayden Panettiere, Viola Davis, Catalina Sandino Moreno,
Directors : James Lapine,

The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.

Actors : Craig Parkinson, Jasper Pääkkönen, Sofia Boutella, Robert Sheehan,
Directors : Charles Henri Belleville,

Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. ...

Actors : Anurita Jha, Sugandha Garg, Sadhana Singh, Divya Unny,
Directors : Shefali Bhushan,

Jugni (Firefly) is the beat of the soul, the free-flying spirit. Jugni is Vibhavari (Vibs). Vibs is a music director, working on her first big break in the Hindi film industry. When work ...

Actors : Emilia Pieske, Johanna Gastdorf, Bjarne Mädel, Julia Jentsch,
Directors : Anne Zohra Berrached,

A happily married woman has a daughter, and is already six months pregnant when she has doubts if she really wants another child, as this might effect her career too much, and wonder if she should choose the option of a late-term abortion.

Actors : Zuzanna Bernat, Dariusz Chojnacki, Piotr Bulcewicz, Alicja Bachleda,
Directors : Patryk Vega,

Two female police officers fight to survive a police force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal criminal mafia.

Actors : Vennela Kishore, Niveda Thomas, Nani, Surabhi,

While returning from London to Hyderabad, two women co-passengers develop a friendship instantly. To kill time, they start telling about the man in their lifes and their story. Catherine (...

Actors : Carolina Ravassa, Valéry Lessard, Caitlin Mehner, Mathilde Dratwa,
Directors : Ela Thier,

When a historian living in the year 2592 time-travels to 2015, she navigates the societal woes that she's read about in history books.

Actors : Dmitriy Groshev, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova,
Directors : Ivan I. Tverdovskiy,

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.

Actors : Mouna Hawa, Mahmud Shalaby, Shaden Kanboura, Sana Jammelieh,
Directors : Maysaloun Hamoud,

Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

Actors : Matt Block, Kari White, Dan Davidson, Christa Bryan-Duffus,
Directors : Douglas Rowland II,

The tight-knit relationship between two adolescent brothers is put to the test when secrecy, infidelity, and the onslaught of adulthood threaten to tear them apart.

Actors : Elif Baysal, Büsra Apaydin, Nevin Efe, Adnan Koç,
Directors : Alper Mestçi,

Three infant friends are separated by a terrible accident but are reunited years later.

Actors : Nora Tschirner, Karoline Herfurth, Frederick Lau, Friedrich Mücke,
Directors : Karoline Herfurth,

A young woman whose boyfriend died is trying to find her way back into life.

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Gullermina Valdés, Hugo Silva, Eugenia Suárez,
Directors : Daniela Goggi,

The Red String of Fate, also referred to as the Red String of Marriage, and other variants, is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend. According to this myth, the gods tie an ...

Actors : Heather Matarazzo, Jeremy Sisto, Katee Sackhoff, Jade Pettyjohn,
Directors : Dorie Barton,

Bird, 12, has to become a woman whether she wants to or not when - in the worst week of her life - she gets her first period, is ditched by her impulsive, free spirited mom, and learns that you can never really go back to The Valley.

Actors : Clark Backo, Morgan Taylor Campbell, Ricardo Hoyos, Munro Chambers,
Directors : Michael Seater,

Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that. Undeterred by the naysayers, Sadie has two...

Actors : Roeland Fernhout, Georgina Verbaan, Maarten Heijmans, Egbert Jan Weeber,
Directors : Sanne Vogel,

Brasserie Valentine is a stylish, funny film about love. About first dates, falling in love and love anniversaries. About love under pressure of daily grind and distrust. And lovingly prepared food. All in one evening on Valentine's Day.

Actors : Amina, Qodrat, Sahar, Sediqa,
Directors : Shahrbanoo Sadat,

Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.

Actors : Sergey Chirkov, Anatoliy Burnosov, Natalya Bardo, Sergey Burunov,
Directors : Evgeniy Shelyakin,

Friday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. Friday night has its special magic.

Actors : Adèle Exarchopoulos, Aliénor Poisson, Guillaume Gallienne, Stéphanie Cléau,
Directors : Pierre Godeau,

Based on a true story, the impossible love between a prison director and one of its female inmates.

Actors : Til Schweiger, Antje Traue, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jana Pallaske,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Four men, betrayed by the bank, unite to take revenge.