Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

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

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

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

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

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 : Sam Anderson, Roger Payano, Allison Miller, Zach Gilford,

After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy.

Actors : Fred Armisen, Diedrich Bader, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams,
Directors : Kevin Smith,

Jay and Silent Bob return to Hollywood to stop a reboot of the 'Bluntman and Chronic' movie from getting made.

Actors : Kelly O'Sullivan, Braden Crothers, Charin Alvarez, William Drain,
Directors : Alex Thompson,

After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.

Actors : Kenichi Masuda, Kiki Sukezane, Chiaki Kawamo, Alicia Vikander,
Directors : Wash Westmoreland,

An enigmatic translator with a dark past is brought in for questioning after an ex-pat friend, who came between her and her photographer boyfriend, ends up missing and presumed dead.

Actors : Keira Knightley, Adam Levine, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld,
Directors : John Carney,

A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.

Actors : Carla Juri, Anah Ruddin, Imelda Staunton, Angeliki Papoulia, Alec Secareanu,
Directors : Romola Garai,

An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton, Lucas Hedges,
Directors : Peter Hedges,

Follows the charming yet troubled Ben Burns (Hedges), who returns home to his unsuspecting family one fateful Christmas Eve. Ben's wary mother Holly Burns (Roberts) welcomes her beloved ...

Actors : Yvan Attal, Jack O'Connell, Kristen Stewart, Gabriel Sky,
Directors : Benedict Andrews,

Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.

Actors : Emmanuel Barco, Kabrina Adams, Thaddeus Daniels, Tom Bruno,
Directors : Crystal Moselle,

A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.

Actors : Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Rosie Perez,
Directors : Dee Rees,

A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.

Actors : Lauryn Canny, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Adrianna Cramer Curtis, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young ...

Actors : Jamie Dornan, Emily Blunt, Christopher Walken, Jon Hamm,
Directors : John Patrick Shanley,

A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.

Actors : Peter Bowles, Ben Whishaw, Pei-Pei Cheng, Andrew Leung,
Directors : Hong Khaou,

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his 4-year male lover, who grieve but don't speak a lick of each other's language.

Actors : Danny Huston, Anthony Mackie, Tom Payne, Margaret Qualley,
Directors : Jonathan Helpert,

As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

Actors : Elizabeth Olsen, Catherine Keener, Nat Wolff, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.

Actors : Shayne Coleman, Skylar Gaertner, Josh Charles, Sarah Silverman,
Directors : Adam Salky,

Laney Brooks does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants, disappears when she wants. Now, with the destruction of her family looming, ...

Actors : Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Jake Lacy, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Kent Jones,

Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she'd sooner forget than face.