Top Female Hero Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Milly Alcock

Eve Ridley

Matthias Schoenaerts

Jason Momoa

Supergirl (2026)

6.2 464 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.

Plot: galaxy, hero, superhero, villain, based on comic, space, female protagonist, heroine, ...

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Djimon Hounsou

Ed Skrein

Michiel Huisman

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)

6.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the ruthless forces of the Motherworld threaten a quiet farming village on a distant moon, a mysterious outsider becomes its best hope for survival.

Plot: rebellion, space war, space, female protagonist, militarism, space opera, family values, authoritarianism, ...

Cast

Barbara Ronchi

Fotinu00ec Peluso

Margherita Buy

Alessandro Tedeschi

Ten Minutes (2024)

6.2 76 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new can change the course of a life. This is what Bianca will discover in the midst of an existential crisis. New meetings, the discovery of special bonds and listening to those who have always loved us. Sometimes it doesn't take much to start over and this film teaches us this, through a warm and passionate story of rebirth.

Plot: depression, infidelity, self-discovery, female psychiatrist, family issues, life lessons

Cast

Sydney Sweeney

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Simona Tabasco

Benedetta Porcaroli

Immaculate (2024)

6.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

Plot: nun, pregnancy, priest, female protagonist, church, convent (nunnery), dark secret, unassuming, ...

Place: italy

Gothika (2003)

6.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

Plot: rape, insanity, married couple, car crash, paranormal, confusion, murder, psychiatric hospital, ...

Cast

Inez Dahl Torhaug

Jesper Barkselius

Sara Shirpey

Eva Melander

Watch the Skies (2022)

6.1 148 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Sweden

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a fostered teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but in fact kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to discover the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with unidentified flying expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.

Plot: wormhole, cover-up, ufo, teenage girl, female protagonist, ufo sighting, father daughter relationship, independent film, ...

Time: 1980s, 1990s

Cast

Scarlett Johansson

Takeshi Kitano

Pilou Asbu00e6k

Michael Pitt

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

6.1 8.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Plot: strong woman, hacker, philosophy, cyborg, dystopia, investigation, based on comic, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Robert Pattinson

Sissy Spacek

LaKeith Stanfield

Die My Love (2025)

6.1 579 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

Plot: husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, dark comedy, surrealism, rural area, female protagonist, car accident, ...

Cast

Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching

Simon Yam

Carrie Ng Ka-Lai

Yiu Wai

Naked Killer (1992)

6.1 94 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman is trained by a professional assassin to become her partner in crime.

Plot: martial arts, sexual obsession, seduction, cop, female protagonist, female assassin, one woman army, woman vs woman fight

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Djimon Hounsou

Ed Skrein

Michiel Huisman

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

6.1 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The rebels gear up for battle against the ruthless forces of the Motherworld as unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge — and legends are made.

Plot: space war, sequel, space, female protagonist, space opera, space adventure, action hero, alien spaceship, ...

Cast

Minako Naka

Norihiko Morishita

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Keinosuke Okamoto

Kazuyoshi Hayashi

Midori (1992)

6.1 170 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 55 min.

Story: After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

Style: shocking

Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, rape, illusion, romance, female protagonist, little girl, based on manga, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Elisha Cuthbert

Chad Michael Murray

Brian Van Holt

Paris Hilton

House of Wax (2005)

6.0 3.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

Plot: louisiana, gore, traffic jam, remake, murder, wax museum, female protagonist, slasher, ...

Time: 2000s

Cast

Brie Larson

Teyonah Parris

Iman Vellani

Samuel L. Jackson

The Marvels (2023)

5.9 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe.

Style: absurd

Plot: hero, superhero, space travel, based on comic, sequel, teenage girl, female protagonist, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Kristen Stewart

Lars Eidinger

Sigrid Bouaziz

Anders Danielsen Lie

Personal Shopper (2016)

5.9 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Czech Republic, France

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

Plot: london, england, paris, france, loss of loved one, medium, poltergeist, grief, ...

Cast

Angelina Jolie

Iain Glen

Daniel Craig

Noah Taylor

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

5.9 6.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5,000 years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out. But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power?

Plot: london, england, buddhist monk, planetary alignment, illuminati, steampunk, female protagonist, heiress, ...

Place: siberia

Cast

Thomasin McKenzie

Anne Hathaway

Shea Whigham

Sam Nivola

Eileen (2023)

5.8 405 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.

Style: dark, psychological

Plot: prison, sexual abuse, based on novel or book, winter, kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, female friendship, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: new england

Cast

Naomi Watts

Simon Baker

David Dorfman

Elizabeth Perkins

The Ring Two (2005)

5.8 2.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, nightmare, nun, son, bath tub, sequel, remake, vision, ...

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Harris Dickinson

Antonio Banderas

Esther-Rose McGregor

Babygirl (2024)

5.7 1.2K votes

Genre: Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Netherlands

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Plot: infidelity, new york city, husband wife relationship, sexual frustration, sexuality, eroticism, seduction, workplace, ...

Cast

Hunter Schafer

Jan Bluthardt

Marton Csokas

Dan Stevens

Cuckoo (2024)

5.7 554 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she's plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.

Plot: grief, female protagonist, dead mother, shriekers, sign languages, seizure, half sister, trippy, ...

Place: germany

Cast

Julia Roberts

Ayo Edebiri

Andrew Garfield

Michael Stuhlbarg

After the Hunt (2025)

5.7 505 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Italy

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: R

Story: A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Plot: husband wife relationship, philosophy, narcissism, plagiarism, yale university, female protagonist, psychological thriller, ulcer, ...

Time: 2010s

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