Female Protagonist Movies

Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redoub...

Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbe...

A tyrannical landlady in Hemet, California lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.

Set in a bustling alleyway during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1940s, the film centres on a wife, Zhan Zhou, who was being charged with...

High schooler Kei Tsuchiya joins The Destroyers when she decides that her longtime karate master is holding her back. She realizes her mistake but it'...

A family decides to visit their clan God to cure their daughter, believed to be possessed but in fact is in love with a man from a different caste. Th...

When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since abort...

A group of girls taking a trip to celebrate a bachelorette party in which they will rediscover themselves.

When 11 of her friends are raped and murdered, leaving the Samurai Princess (Aino Kishi) the only survivor, she becomes infused with her comrades' sou...

Angel dumped Roy to marry Uncle Burhan, who had been her sugar daddy. As soon as she officially became a young wife, Angel was even attracted to her h...

Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but me...

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' live...

At a quiet motel, a rising star in the film industry must confront her past as she navigates her flourishing career and delicate personal relationship...

Kaluna, a middle-class worker living with her parents and married siblings, dreams of owning her own house. However, supporting her extended family on...

In order to take over her grandmother's Dagashi store, art student Kumi Honamanuma moved to Kyoto. She met Harami Mino, K Kusanagi, Mai Haisaka, and a...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative...

A woman—pregnant after a one-night stand with her awkward neighbor—sleeps with a businessman to pass off the baby as his.

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts...

A con artist poses as a film director in a village with the intention of executing a caper with the unwitting help of the villagers.

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but wat...