Female Protagonist Movies

A young woman finds herself in a cold cellar room without any recollection how she got there. Two men alone with her. Both captors try everything to...

Amélia begins to sing in her husband's church, Preacher Sérgio, and from then on she becomes aware of her annulment and servitude....

A dream of three television shows and the narrator’s identity suspended between them in a loop is keeping the protagonist awake.

In the film-performance, actress Nasiba Zeynalova once again encounters the characters she has created over many years.

1970. Beatriz is an 18-year-old student. She is detained by the military dictatorship in Curitiba, Brazil, and tortured for ten days accused of...

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...

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...

A young woman’s carefully managed routine spirals out of control when she runs out of antipsychotics.

Three young girls' during a festive summer night in the northern part of Sweden. The girls are attending a party in a big old house, where both the...

An animated short by rapparu which focuses on a young woman's attempt to achieve space travel and her interactions with her cat.

Fang Yung-Chiu is a young martial artist skilled in disc-throwing and swordplay. When a society known as the Han Brothers kills her master, she vows...

When Ella makes a strange discovery about the lifestyle choices of her internet date, the recently bereaved Mark, she must choose whether to stay in...

The workers of an Indonesian factory that manufactures custom-made fake body parts have hidden dark and greedy sides, and the place’s elderly...

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

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...

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest...

A man hopes to achieve something better in his life.

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...

Paola, a young reporter working for a tabloid newspaper, investigates a series of mysterious murders involving suspicious companies, cryptic messages...