Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

Actors : Brandy Pitcher, Lisa Starrett, Eliza de Azevedo Brown, Eric Ramaekers,
Directors : Edson Oda,

A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.

Actors : Maeve Jinkings, Ana Rita Gurgel, Dida Maia, Caio Almeida,
Directors : Kleber Mendonça Filho,

The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.

Actors : Molly Parker, Miranda July, Helena Howard, Okwui Okpokwasili,
Directors : Josephine Decker,

A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.

Actors : Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck, Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Michel Leclerc,

A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.

Actors : Noël Wells, Lakeith Stanfield, Chris O'Dowd, Jessica Williams,
Directors : Jim Strouse,

An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendship with a guy while on the rebound from a break-up.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Tatiana Maslany, Toby Kebbell,
Directors : Karyn Kusama,

A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.

Actors : Margarete Tiesel, Inge Maux, Peter Kazungu, Dunja Sowinetz,
Directors : Ulrich Seidl,

Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.

Actors : Stephanie Beatriz, Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel,
Directors : George C. Wolfe,

A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

Actors : Jim Gaffigan, Allison Janney, Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis,

In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime.

Actors : Kit Harington, Adelaide Clemens, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sean Bean,
Directors : Michael J. Bassett,

When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.

Actors : Laura Birn, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore, Clémence Poésy,
Directors : David Farr,

A couple expecting their first child discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby.

Actors : Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange, Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Charlie Stratton,

Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, by her domineering ...

Actors : Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

Actors : Nicholas Farrell, Lynda Baron, Damian Lewis, Alan David, Toni Collette, Joanna Page, Owen Teale,
Directors : Euros Lyn,

Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.

Actors : David Hasselhoff, Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, Matt Bush,
Directors : John Gulager,

After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into a newly opened waterpark.

Actors : Peter Outerbridge, Abigail Breslin, Stephen McHattie, Michelle Nolden,
Directors : Vincenzo Natali,

A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

Actors : Bella Thorne, Rob Riggle, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Quinn Shephard,
Directors : Scott Speer,

A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.

Actors : Aisling Loftus, Emily Watson, Lorraine Ashbourne, Stuart Wolfenden,
Directors : Jim Loach,

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

Actors : Adam Pally, Zoe Lister-Jones, Susie Essman, Fred Armisen,
Directors : Zoe Lister-Jones,

A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.