Best Female Lead movies of 2017

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Nicholas Campbell, Théodore Pellerin, Mary Galloway,
Directors : Kathleen Hepburn,

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.

Actors : Laure Calamy, Noée Abita, Tamara Cano, Juan Cano,
Directors : Léa Mysius,

13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.

Actors : Kelsey Deanne, Melissa Alouf, Chase Austin, Jay Bowles,
Directors : Suneel Tripuraneni,

A young couple move into their dream house, only to find out they are not alone.

Actors : Emil Johnsen, Sam Schweikert, Deanna Russo, John Redlinger,
Directors : Megan Freels Johnston,

Mary moves back to her suburban hometown, to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.

Actors : Callum Turner, Roger Barnes, Callum Keith Rennie, Imogen Poots,
Directors : Vladimir de Fontenay,

A young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of...

Actors : Jason Biggs, Ray Bouderau, E.J. An, Helen Beyene,
Directors : Matthew Newton,

An ex-con tries to get back custody of her son with the help of an idealistic young public defender and at the same time falls into a romantic fling with a traumatized former US soldier.

Actors : Tony Goldwyn, Ellen Burstyn, Sharon Stone, Liza Lapira,
Directors : Susan Walter,

An aspiring fashion designer struggles to find success and love. The story cuts into her life once a year, always on the same date: her birthday.

Actors : Agnès Jaoui, Pascale Arbillot, Sarah Suco, Thibault de Montalembert,
Directors : Blandine Lenoir,

Aurore, separated from her husband, has just lost her job and been told that she is going to be a grandmother. She is slowly being pushed to the outskirts of society, but when she ...

Actors : Sandra Escacena, Claudia Placer, Bruna González, Iván Chavero,
Directors : Paco Plaza,

Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Actors : Eero Aho, Alina Tomnikov, Akseli Kouki, Diana Pozharskaya,
Directors : Aku Louhimies,

A film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.

Actors : Rebecca Forsythe, Sean Knopp, Lucie Aron, Barbara Crampton,
Directors : Norbert Keil,

Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford,
Directors : Judy Greer,

During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.

Actors : Shauna Macdonald, Leah McNamara, Steve Wall, Ross Noble,
Directors : Dennis Bartok,

Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.

Actors : Ben Feldman, Pablo Schreiber, Lena Headey, Eliza Taylor,
Directors : Jordan Ross,

Teens in a low income neighborhood are lured into working for a violent and dangerous drug dealer. When a new girl harboring a dark secret arrives in town, their relationship jeopardizes everything.

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Audrey Francis, Sari Sanchez, Fawzia Mirza,
Directors : Jennifer Reeder,

Zaynab, a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian in Chicago takes care of her sweet and TV-obsessed mother. As Zaynab falls for Alma, a bold and very bright Mexican woman, she searches for her identity in life, love and wrestling.

Actors : Kunchacko Boban, Fahadh Faasil, Parvathy, Prakash Belawadi,
Directors : Mahesh Narayan,

In 2014, a group of Malayali nurses was captured when terrorists took over the city of Tikrit in Iraq. This movie recounts the ordeal suffered by the nurses following their capture.

Actors : Bates Wilder, Forrest Weber, Kathy Askew, Jessica Rothe,
Directors : Andrew Kightlinger,

A wayward millennial escapes to a South Dakota ranch, unhinging her Uncle's placid alcoholic life.

Actors : Kent Tsai, Eugenie Liu, James Lai, Yu-Kai Teng,
Directors : Giddens Ko,

A group of teenagers capture a man-eating monster.

Actors : Christopher Lloyd, Richard Gunn, Michael Eklund, Rose McGowan,
Directors : Jenna Mattison,

A supernatural skeptic sets off to debunk paranormal sightings using low frequency sound waves in an abandoned subway station and is met with unforeseen evil and eerie memories.

Actors : Jon Kortajarena, Ana Polvorosa, Macarena Gómez, Carolina Bang,
Directors : Eduardo Casanova,

In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.