Female Protagonist Movies

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...

A therapist looks into the mind of a woman diagnosed as schizophrenic and finds, not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of...

A retired singer from northern Sudan, Mona, burdened by guilt for covering up a man's death, hires his southern widow, Julia, as her maid. Unable to...

Red Paper Crane is a gripping Chinese drama based on a true case, released on the sixth anniversary of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. Flight...

Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her...

A woman’s life unravels after she becomes addicted to throwing herself down flights of stairs.

A woman unable to acknowledge and access her own feelings constructs intimacy by stealing from people instead of getting close to them. After having...

Lara Croft is the fearless pioneer of "girl power." She's the empress of the digital age, and the star of the wildly successful computer game and...

Karla, a talented young runner diagnosed with bone cancer, receives treatment at a halfway house. There, she learns to accept reality through the...

Following a localized string of youth abductions and homicides, a cynical newspaper editor forms a desperate alliance with a law enforcement officer...

Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone...

After a devastating divorce leaves her to raise her child alone, a resilient single mother faces the ultimate test of forgiveness when she is forced...

Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they...

Angie works hard to run her uncle’s events business while her cousin Candace takes the credit. When Angie takes a night off to have fun at the...

Putri had run away from home about a year prior. When she was finally found by her mother, Mak Elli, and her younger sister, Alana, Putri was ill...

Rwanda, 2012. The country is emerging from an era of silence after the 1994 Tutsi genocide, and people's courts are being set up with the aim of...

Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.

In 2144, a young girl raised by a polar bear chases her destiny after escaping capture by brutal warriors intent on killing her mother.

Pertiwi returns to her hometown after spending two decades in prison to rebuild her life. There, she finds power in things that have been abandoned:...

A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.