Best Female Lead movies of 2023

Actors : Ash Tandon, Kareena Kapoor, Ranveer Brar,
Directors : Hansal Mehta,

A grieving cop who loses her child to murder and moves to another town where she's tasked with investigating the disappearance of a missing child. Exploring themes of trauma, grief, the immigrant experience and our need for closure.

Actors : Megan Suri, Betty Gabriel, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan,
Directors : Bishal Dutta,

An Indian-American teenager struggling with her cultural identity has a falling out with her former best friend and, in the process, unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness.

Actors : Henry Goodman, Zed Josef, Helen Mirren, Claudette Williams,
Directors : Guy Nattiv,

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.

Actors : Iván Sánchez, Marta Hazas, Gabriel Guevara, Nicole Wallace,
Directors : Domingo González,

Noah has to leave her town, boyfriend and friends behind and move into the mansion of her mother's new rich husband. There she meets Nick, her new stepbrother. They fall madly in love in secret.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Aswan Reid, Wayne Blair,
Directors : Warwick Thornton,

The mesmeric story of a nine-year-old aboriginal Australian orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.

Actors : Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, Song Kang-ho, Lizzy Caplan, Oh Jung-Se, Krystal Jung, Woody Norman, Park Jeong-su,
Directors : Samuel Bodin, Jee-woon Kim,

Described as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.

Actors : Vijay Varma, Jaideep Ahlawat, Kareena Kapoor,
Directors : Sujoy Ghosh,

A single mother and her daughter commit a crime and a neighbor helps them cover it up amid the police investigation.

Actors : Moussa Sow, Binta Racine Sy, Mamadou Diallo, Khady Mane,
Directors : Ramata-Toulaye Sy,

A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.

Actors : Shine Tom Chacko, Keerthy Suresh, Dheekshith Shetty, Nani,
Directors : Srikanth Odela,

Set in the backdrop of Singareni coal mines near Godavarikhani of Telangana.

Actors : Geena Davis, Nessa Dougherty, Scoot McNairy, Emilia Jones,
Directors : Andrew Durham,

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad.

Actors : Drew 'Druski' Desbordes, Quavo, Anjelika Washington, Chloe Bailey,
Directors : Tina Gordon,

Youth choirs gather together for a music competition.

Actors : Romana Maggiora Vergano, Valerio Mastandrea, Paola Cortellesi,
Directors : Paola Cortellesi,

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class wife and mother dreams of a better future. Winner of 6 Italian Academy Awards.

Actors : Natalie Victoria, Candice Coke, Monroe Cline, Jessica Sula,
Directors : Anthony DiBlasi,

A rookie police officer willingly takes the last shift at a newly decommissioned police station in an attempt to uncover the mysterious connection between her father's death and a vicious cult.

Actors : Jeffrey Donovan, Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Michael Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Anthony Mandler,

Former Buffalo Soldier Mo Washington travels West to lay claim on a gold mine. After her stagecoach is ambushed, Mo is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit's gang tries to free him.

Actors : Pearl V Puri, Divya Khossla, Meezaan Jafri,
Directors : Radhika Rao, Vinay Sapru,

After moving to Mumbai, three cousins experience difficulties in their romantic relationships.

Actors : Samuel Kircher, Clotilde Courau, Olivier Rabourdin, Léa Drucker,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

Follows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.

Actors : Thomas Kretschmann, Martin McCann, Kate Bosworth, Lucien Laviscount,
Directors : Tanel Toom,

A platoon of soldiers are stranded in an abandoned military base on a near future Earth waiting for the relief or the enemy, whichever comes first.

Actors : Alice Lowe, Aisling Bea, Emma Amos, Matthew McNulty,
Directors : Coky Giedroyc,

A feature adaptation of the 'The Band' musical, featuring the songs of Take That.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Lily James, Joe Keery, Rachel Sennott,
Directors : Saverio Costanzo,

A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.

Actors : Benjamin Bollen, Annouck Hautbois, Fanny Bloc, Antoine Tomé,
Directors : Jeremy Zag,

Ordinary teenager Marinette's life in Paris goes superhuman when she becomes Ladybug. Bestowed with magical powers of creation, Ladybug must unite with her opposite, Cat Noir, to save Paris as a new villain unleashes chaos unto the city.