Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lewis MacDougall, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Gaspard Ulliel, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sandra Hüller, Virginie Efira,
Directors : Justine Triet,

A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer.

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 : Elle Fanning, Stephen Dillane, Maisie Williams, Douglas Booth,
Directors : Haifaa Al-Mansour,

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

Actors : Claudia Bassols, Shawn Doyle, Emily Hampshire, Kris Holden-Ried,
Directors : Manuel Carballo,

In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

Actors : Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, Kara Hayward, Malin Akerman,
Directors : Martha Stephens,

Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer's daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

Actors : Matt O'Leary, Arnar Jónsson, Gunnar Helgason, Maika Monroe,

On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious ...

Actors : Jacob Tremblay, Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, Charlie Heaton,
Directors : Farren Blackburn,

A heart-pounding thriller about a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

Actors : Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Miley Cyrus, Bobby Coleman,
Directors : Julie Anne Robinson,

A rebellious girl is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

Actors : Jonathan Howard, Rhona Mitra, Daniel Bernhardt, Lindsey Morgan,
Directors : Liam O'Donnell,

When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.

Actors : Daniel Brühl, Anjella Mackintosh, Ava Acres, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.

Actors : Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson,
Directors : Geoffrey Sax,

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.