Female Protagonist Movies

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...

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their...

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lillian moves in with married couple Julia and Don only to overhear them arguing in the night. The front door...

A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally...

An FBI-trained neuropsychologist teams up with a thief to find a reality-altering device while her insane ex-boss unleashes bizarre traps to stop her.

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...

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.

When a father leaves his family, his religious daughter faces a new school and added responsibilities.

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary...

A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.

When four women finally take the road trip they planned in high school, they have no idea of the things they'll bump into... sometimes literally.

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is...

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at...

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Cathy's preparations for an idyllic, romantic vacation with her boyfriend, Irving, go awry.

Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar, a miner named Tyler becomes possessed with an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for...

Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with...

For Tammy, a burger-joint employee, a bad day keeps getting worse. She wrecks her car, loses her job, and finds that her husband has been unfaithful....