Best Female Lead movies of 2016

Actors : Tara Lee, Seána Kerslake, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack,
Directors : Darren Thornton,

A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, James McArdle, Leah Harvey, Paul Popplewell,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

An intimate look at life on the road for the band Wolf Alice as they tour Great Britain.

Actors : Sonakshi Sinha, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anurag Kashyap, Nandu Madhav,
Directors : A.R. Murugadoss,

A gripping action thriller about a college girl Akira, who has grown up with the ideals of being self reliant. Her life spirals out of control when she becomes unwittingly involved in a crime involving four corrupt police officers.

Actors : Allie Marie Evans, Lyliana Wray, Patrick Johnson, Luke Gregory Crosby,
Directors : Jay Martin,

Six children genetically cross-bred with avian DNA, complete with wings, take flight around the country to discover their origins.

Actors : Michelle Borth, Pat Healy, Nichole Bloom, Fabianne Therese,
Directors : John Carchietta,

Feeling confined by their small town and overbearing parents, Annie and Jules hatch a scheme of running away. But as the girls soon find out, consequences can blindside you. Sometimes violently.

Actors : Kari J. Kramer, Susie Celek, Erin O'Brien, Miesha Tate,
Directors : Rob Hawk,

A young woman is found dead after getting involved in an underground fighting ring. Her sister Windsor begins training under a respected ex-fighter as she searches for the killer.

Actors : Lara Peake, Alexa Davies, Tallulah Rose Haddon, Steven Elder,
Directors : Alex Taylor,

A girl fakes her own alien abduction and disappears, leaving her father to search for her in a strange teenage world of unicorns and black holes.

Actors : Konkona Sen Sharma, Plabita Borthakur, Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah,
Directors : Alankrita Shrivastava,

Set in the crowded by-lanes of small town India, Lipstick Under My Burkha chronicles the secret lives of four women in search of a little freedom. Though stifled and trapped in their worlds...

Actors : Andrea Tivadar, Laura Harring, Stany Coppet, Rachel Nichols,
Directors : Miguel Ángel Vivas,

A woman in her third trimester of pregnancy is stalked by a stranger who is obsessed with her unborn child.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Susan Lynch, Juno Temple, Matt Ryan,
Directors : David Blair,

A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.

Actors : Karishma Lakhani, Gema Calero, Jamie Bernadette, Katie Carpenter,
Directors : Lou Simon,

High school friends reunite after many years to spend a weekend in the mountains, but when everything goes wrong, there is no time for girl bonding.

Actors : Deborah Abbott, Rebecca Chulew, Tess Cline, Don Daro,
Directors : Pritesh Chheda,

When their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.

Actors : Dale Soules, Breeda Wool, Bill Sage, Lola Kirke,
Directors : Deb Shoval,

A young woman Joey is in search of direction in her small town. A visit to an army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipates.

Actors : Wasyl Wasylik, Michalina Labacz, Adrian Zaremba, Arkadiusz Jakubik,
Directors : Wojciech Smarzowski,

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

Actors : Baoguo Chen, Joyce Wenjuan Feng, Wu Linkai, Xudong Wu,
Directors : Dante Lam,

Inspired by the true story known as the Mekong Massacre--two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle, one of the largest drug-manufacturing regions in the world. 13 sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are recovered at the scene. Upon discovery, the Chinese government immediately sends a band...

Actors : Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Justin Gerhard, Winny Clarke,
Directors : Sarah Rotella,

A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.

Actors : Manuel Morón, Paco León, Juana Acosta, Alex Brendemühl,
Directors : Roger Gual,

Four friends face an agonizing decision. One must go to prison. The other three must make the sacrifice worthwhile.

Actors : Drew Harwood, Aria Emory, James McCabe, Monique Rosario,
Directors : Chris von Hoffmann,

A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics.

Actors : Alanna LeVierge, Kate Fenton, Nina Kiri, Adam Christie,
Directors : Cody Calahan,

Let Her Out follows Helen, a bike courier who suffers a traumatic accident. As she recovers, she begins to experience strange episodic-black outs, hallucinations, and night terrors-that ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, Demi Moore, Ptolemy Slocum,
Directors : Andy Tennant,

Everything changes for Eva when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50 thousand. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.