Female Protagonist Movies

An old western town is populated entirely by cute young Catholic schoolgirls and shotgun toting nuns who have killed off the entire male population,...

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

The story revolves around an actress who is going make her last film in Rome in the 1980s.

Roxana follows a young mother’s return to the juvenile detention center she was once incarcerated in, now as a trained somatic therapist....

Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the...

7 female riders, 1 van, 15 days, 4,300km, 416 GB of raw material… culminating in one video, divided into four chapters. The film documents the...

The beauty of the land cannot mask the brutality of a farm town. As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to...

Susi Susanti rises to become Indonesia’s beloved athlete. In time of turmoil, she showed her country & the world that heroism is measured by...

Edith Ann is NOT your average 6-year-old. She sees the world unlike any other child her age. Created by the multi-talented Lilly Tomlin, Edith Ann...

Ranged across several generations, the story begins with a wealthy merchant, Lind, and his wife travelling in the coldest depths of winter to...

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The...

Merry who lived in Singapore never thought her life would change. She struggled against rejection until she got 1 million dollars at a young age.

An isolated woman tries a newly developed therapy to overcome her fear of being touched.

On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist,...

Three women wrestle with life's difficulties while confronting their past relationships with the same man.

A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a...

Jane Rambo is sent on a rescue mission. However, she soon learns that her commander cannot be trusted.

Taylor, a successful professional, is suffocating under the loneliness of being around millions of people. But a ray of light comes from encountering...

This adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "NANA," is about the sexual liaisons of a woman who through her relationships with different men, enjoys a life...

This Pixar documentary short follows Sarah Vowell, who plays herself as the title character, on why she is a superhero in her own way. (This short...