Female Protagonist Movies

Maya is an unhappy young woman, fed up with her monotonous job, filthy apartment, and the responsibilities of caring for her drug-addicted mother....

Parallel City

Tormented by a mysterious figure named Belmiro, a young woman goes up on a stage to deliver a monologue about her past and fight against herself.

I Go Further Under is inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper who, in 1971, at 17 years of age, arrived in Hobart from Melbourne and asked local...

Nora is about to turn 40 and can't stop wondering: what's the point of all this? What was meant to be a celebration turns into a series of...

A reclusive video editor receives footage of her own death.

The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a...

Separated by distance and the arrival of a faith-aligned rival, a young dreamer from Buton and a Balinese wanderer must test whether fate is strong...

A young nun's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.

Sammy, an uncommonly smart twelve-year-old girl, uses her gift for mathematics and enlists her frenemies to revamp the school penny drive into a...

On the cusp of motherhood, a woman drifts into a vivid daydream, embarking on a nostalgic journey back to her old family home. As she revisits the...

A trans cop with the New York City Police Department goes undercover to make a drug bust.

Sarah and Lizzie live for their summers at Blackhawk Farm. This summer, Lizzie will be a counselor, while Sarah is a C.I.T.; this creates some...

Carlos has just died, but due to the quarantine, the body must stay at his girlfriend Ana's house.

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

2011. Fukushima. Keiko's life changes when her friends are swallowed up by the tsunami. Two years later, unable to mourn, the former trawler captain...

When Chloe photographs a violent attack outside her apartment, she is certain she has proof of what she saw. Then the image vanishes. As objects...

A starry-eyed actress with a troubled past faces her harshest critic during an interview gone wrong.

Dismissed by those around her, a young woman begins performing as a living statue, finding strange power in stillness, until she reclaims the...