Female Protagonist Movies

Two meek women who are terribly abused by their husbands join forces to avenge their maltreatment. Martial arts give them the power to stand strong...

Receiving a shocking late night phone call from the police, celebrated author Annie Cutter learns that her estranged, recently-deceased sister had...

A young woman receives a document from an elderly relative that causes her to pause. Confronted with the meaning of an entire life, she suddenly...

A romantic girl, influenced by a popular magazine, has a series of brief adventures with her ambitious cousin, her gay cousin, her neighborhood's...

Parallel City

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

Short experimental film in black & white. A young girl learns to appreciate her beauty through the help of a mysterious stranger... Will this be the...

After surviving sexual assault, a queer Chinese-American woman struggles to tell her immigrant mother why she left school. As she disassociates, she...

Three dancers receive a new flatmate, unaware of what shadowy evil they have welcomed into their home.

Shot in the eye by security forces amid protests, a teenage girl actively attempts to convince others that she has regained her sight.

As a faithful child of God, Mary regularly repents for her sins. Over time, her faith drives her crazy as she pushes herself to the extremes.

A girl is commissioned to paint over an old concrete illustration, in which to her surprise, sinks into. She befriends a painted dragon who has a...

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...

Jordan finds herself trapped only with the mysterious instruction from the phone that leads her to shocking revelations as she tries to escape the...

A visually stunning and thought-provoking biopic documenting the life and career of renowned photographer Linda Troeller. Her work explores the...

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...

In a kingdom cursed by a deadly plague, Elara, the daughter of gravediggers, tends to the dead alongside what remains of her family. When her brother...

A year after shooting a notorious outlaw known as Ghost, a young orphan discovers he’s still alive and out for revenge. She must outwit him one...

Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to experimental filmmaking, GRLHOOD explores a typical day in the life of a young woman trying to take a trip to...