Best Female Lead movies of 2010s

Actors : Kate Arrington, Marika Engelhardt, Tim Hopper, James Vincent Meredith,
Directors : Jennifer Reeder,

A mystical teen noir that follows a young girl's disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents.

Actors : Elle Fanning, Stephen Dillane, Douglas Booth, Maisie Williams,
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 : Rohit Saraf, Zaira Wasim, Farhan Akhtar, Priyanka Chopra,
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 : Christopher Lloyd, Vera Farmiga, Lewis MacDougall, Christopher Plummer,
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 : Ella Purnell, Diane Farr, Joshua Leonard, Brian Geraghty,
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 : Anthony LaPaglia, Tony Shalhoub, Michelle Rodriguez, Caitlin Gerard,
Directors : Walter Hill,

After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.

Actors : Maxine Peake, Will Forte, Edward MacLiam, Ciara Gallagher,
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 : Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sandra Hüller, Virginie Efira, Gaspard Ulliel,
Directors : Justine Triet,

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

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

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

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 : Lars Eidinger, Nina Hoss, Marthe Keller, 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 : 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 : 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 : Daniel Brühl, Anjella Mackintosh, Kate Beckinsale, Ava Acres,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

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

Actors : Jacob Tremblay, Charlie Heaton, Oliver Platt, Naomi Watts,
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 : 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.

Actors : Marton Csokas, Remo Girone, Caterina Murino, Emilia Clarke,
Directors : Eric D. Howell,

Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena, a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

Actors : Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, 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 : Pablo Derqui, Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Francesc Orella,
Directors : Guillem Morales,

The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.

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

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