Top Female Hero Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Chiwa Saito

Tomoaki Maeno

Yusuke Kobayashi

Yona of the Dawn (2014) TV Show

8.3 296 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Currently, Hiryuu Palace has no one else next in line for the throne other than the fifteen year old princess, Yona, who had been raised with care. Finally, the night of her sixteenth birthday arrives. She expects it to be a wonderful day spent with her peace-loving father, her servant and friend Hak, and her cousin Soo-won, who she had feelings for... However... That night, Yona goes to visit her father to tell him how she really feels, because he opposes to her getting married to Soo-won. However, when she gets to her room, she encounters a shocking truth.

Plot: politics, princess, revenge, romance, royalty, travel, betrayal, coming of age, ...

Girl Meets World (2014) TV Show

8.3 721 votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 71

Audience: TV-G

Story: The adventures of relatable and adventurous Riley Matthews, the tween daughter of Cory and Topanga Matthews, and her bold best friend Maya as they traverse the twists and turns of teenage years at Manhattan's John Quincy Adams Middle School where Riley's dad is their History teacher.

Plot: new york city, female friendship, high school, growing up, coming of age, female protagonist, middle school, spin off, ...

Cast

Zendaya

Hunter Schafer

Sydney Sweeney

Jacob Elordi

Euphoria (2019) TV Show

8.3 10.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Israel

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

Plot: drug crime, sex scandal, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), relationship problems, childhood trauma, sex addiction, addiction, love-hate relationship, ...

Time: 2010s

Cast

Janet Varney

David Faustino

P.J. Byrne

Seychelle Gabriel

The Legend of Korra (2012) TV Show

8.2 2.4K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 52

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.

Plot: buddhism, martial arts, asia, friendship, romance, steampunk, coming of age, spirituality, ...

Cast

Ana Valeria Becerril

Michael Ronda

Yankel Stevan

Luis Curiel

Control Z (2020) TV Show

8.2 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Mexico

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a hacker begins releasing students' secrets to the entire high school, the socially isolated but observant Sofía works to uncover his/her identity.

Plot: fight, hacker, bullying, female protagonist, lgbt, teenage pregnancy, teen drama, nudity

Cast

Honor Kneafsey

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Eva Whittaker

Sean Bean

Simon McBurney

Wolfwalkers (2020)

8.2 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: France, Ireland

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Plot: friendship, wolf, magic, fairy tale, shapeshifting, wolf's lair, feral child, forest, ...

Time: 1600s

Place: ireland

Cast

Tom Skerritt

Sigourney Weaver

Veronica Cartwright

Harry Dean Stanton

Alien (1979)

8.2 16.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Plot: android, spacecraft, space marine, biology, dystopia, countdown, space suit, beheading, ...

Cast

Kiernan Shipka

Ross Lynch

Lucy Davis

Miranda Otto

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018) TV Show

8.2 3.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-14

Story: Magic and mischief collide as half-human, half-witch Sabrina navigates between two worlds: mortal teen life and her family's legacy, the Church of Night.

Style: dark, chilling

Plot: witch, black magic, high school, based on comic, female protagonist, aunt niece relationship, spin off, witchcraft, ...

Cast

Carla Souary

Nu2019landu Lubansu

Alma Schmitt

Romane Parc

SKAM France (2018) TV Show

8.1 53 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Seasons: 12

Episodes: 122

Story: Skam France follows five french girls and their friends as they go to high-school.

Plot: male friendship, female friendship, friendship, high school, remake, female protagonist, lgbt, teenage romance, ...

Place: france

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) TV Show

8.1 70 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-14

Story: "Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up." When Utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. She never forgot the encounter. Now a teenager, Utena attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy; however, her strong sense of chivalry soon places her at odds with the student council and thrusts her into a series of mysterious and dangerous duels against its members.

Style: philosophical, psychological, lighthearted, provocative, absurd, ...

Plot: sibling relationship, sexual identity, adolescence, swordplay, symbolism, role reversal, surrealism, role playing, ...

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Nicholas Brendon

Alyson Hannigan

Emma Caulfield

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) TV Show

8.1 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 144

Audience: TV-14

Story: Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

Plot: monster, anti hero, magic, vampire, chosen one, supernatural, high school, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Fran Drescher

Charles Shaughnessy

Daniel Davis

Lauren Lane

The Nanny (1993) TV Show

8.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 144

Audience: TV-PG

Story: That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.

Plot: new york city, babysitter, family relationships, female protagonist, employer employee relationship, sitcom, domestic worker

Cast

Uma Thurman

Lucy Liu

Vivica A. Fox

Michael Madsen

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)

8.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 254 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.

Style: intense

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, assassin, mass murder, yakuza, feminism, secret society, buried alive, ...

Time: 1990s, 2000s

Cast

Sofia Helin

Thure Lindhardt

Mikael Birkkju00e6r

Sarah Boberg

The Bridge (2011) TV Show

8.1 710 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

Style: melancholy, intense

Plot: detective, copenhagen, denmark, bridge, police, female protagonist, female detective, murder investigation, ...

Place: denmark, sweden, scandinavia

Cast

Lola Tung

Christopher Briney

Gavin Casalegno

Sean Kaufman

The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022) TV Show

8.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

Plot: love triangle, based on novel or book, affectation, friendship, romance, cancer, coming of age, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Rachel Brosnahan

Alex Borstein

Michael Zegen

Tony Shalhoub

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) TV Show

8.1 972 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 43

Audience: TV-MA

Story: It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.

Style: nostalgic, whimsical

Plot: comedian, female protagonist, period drama, manhattan, new york city, candid, sentimental

Time: 1950s

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (2020) TV Show

8.1 115 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: First-year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. While she spends her time doodling endless ideas and settings in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. After Asakusa's money-loving best friend Sayaka Kanamori notices her genius and drive – and when it becomes clear that their classmate and charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki wants to be an animator – the energetic trio start an animation club. Together, the three aim to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds, as they come to see the power that fiction and imagination have on their lives and the world around them.

Plot: exploration, friends, slice of life, school, female protagonist, based on manga, creation, skills, ...

Cast

Anouck Hautbois

Benjamin Bollen

Marie Nonnenmacher

Thierry Kazazian

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015) TV Show

8.1 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Family

Country: France, South Korea

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 155

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Marinette and Adrien, two Parisian teenagers, are entrusted with powerful jewels in order to transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. But neither hero knows the other's true identity — or that they're classmates!

Plot: magic, friendship, superhero, romance, school, female protagonist, 3d animation, magical girl, ...

Place: paris, france

Cast

Amy Poehler

Aziz Ansari

Nick Offerman

Aubrey Plaza

Parks and Recreation (2009) TV Show

8.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 122

Audience: TV-14

Story: In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

Plot: indiana, usa, politics, satire, female protagonist, mockumentary, employer employee relationship, political satire, ...

Cast

Antonia Gentry

Brianne Howey

Diesel La Torraca

Jennifer Robertson

Ginny & Georgia (2021) TV Show

8.0 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-14

Story: Free-spirited Georgia and her two kids, Ginny and Austin, move north in search of a fresh start but find that the road to new beginnings can be bumpy.

Plot: femme fatale, romance, neighbor, female protagonist, motorcycle gang, childhood sexual abuse, town mayor, teenage romance, ...

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