Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

Actors : Benjamin Hoetjes, Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Anthony J. Sharpe,
Directors : Andrew Traucki,

Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.

Actors : Mavie Hörbiger, Valerie Pachner, Michelle Barthel, Pia Hierzegger,
Directors : Marie Kreutzer,

A high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.

Actors : Sanaa Lathan, Lynn Whitfield, Ricky Whittle, Lyriq Bent,
Directors : Haifaa Al-Mansour,

Violet Jones tired of waiting for her longtime boyfriend to propose, breaks up with him. But old feelings, and heaps of jealousy, no doubt, arise when he promptly begins dating another woman.

Actors : Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Justin Kelly,

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.

Actors : Lucy Boynton, Katee Sackhoff, Richard Mylan, Nick Moran,
Directors : Caradog W. James,

A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

Actors : Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Ciara Gallagher, Will Forte,
Directors : Steph Green,

An American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.

Actors : Lewis MacDougall, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Lloyd, Vera Farmiga,
Directors : Shana Feste,

Laura and her son Henry are forced to drive her estranged, pot-dealing, carefree father Jack across country after being kicked out of a nursing home.

Actors : Imogen Poots, Molly McCann, Danielle Ryan, Jesse Eisenberg,
Directors : Lorcan Finnegan,

A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.

Actors : Josh Wiggins, Jim Gaffigan, Marin Ireland, Atheena Frizzell,
Directors : Paul Harrill,

A single mom and part-time paranormal investigator is asked to look into a possible "haunting" at a widower's farmhouse in East Tennessee.

Actors : Diane Farr, Joshua Leonard, Brian Geraghty, Ella Purnell,
Directors : Frank Hall Green,

After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness.

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Nina Hoss, Jens Albinus,

Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.

Actors : Malic White, Jessie Pinnick, Rebecca Spence, James Vincent Meredith,
Directors : Stephen Cone,

Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the ...

Actors : Geena Davis, Colin Farrell, John Malkovich, Jessica Chastain, Common,
Directors : Tate Taylor,

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Actors : Alia Bhatt, Durgesh Kumar, Pradeep Nagar, Randeep Hooda,
Directors : Imtiaz Ali,

Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.

Actors : Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Sam Louwyck, Bastien Bouillon,
Directors : Zoé Wittock,

Jeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated with carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That's when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park's new flagship attraction.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Jeremy Gardner, Dora Madison, Tru Collins,
Directors : Joe Begos,

A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Actors : Jay Duplass, Luke Pitzrick, Sophie Thatcher, Pedro Pascal,

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own ...

Actors : Némo Schiffman, Camille, Gérard Garouste, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Emmanuelle Bercot,

Facing a failed relationship and a struggling restaurant, a woman hits the road for a trip with her grandson.

Actors : Rohit Saraf, Zaira Wasim, Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar,
Directors : Shonali Bose,

Based on the love story of a couple spanning 25 years and told through the lens of their spunky teenage daughter Aisha Chaudhary, who was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.

Actors : Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Suzu Hirose, Kaho,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.