Top Female Hero Movies & TV Shows

BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

Cast

Kaede Hondo

Ruriko Noguchi

Saori Hayami

Satomi Arai

BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. (2020) TV Show

7.4 162 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Kaede Honjou is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.

Plot: competition, video game, virtual reality, survival, female protagonist, anime, virtual world, based on light novel, ...

Miss Sloane (2016)

7.4 2.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Style: intense

Plot: strong woman, politics, gun, empowerment, hearing, career woman, senator, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Tomoyo Kurosawa

Yui Ishikawa

Shimba Tsuchiya

Shinji Kawada

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (2025) TV Show

7.4 46 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: High-school student Amate Yuzuriha lives peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. But when she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.

Plot: space colony, psychic power, mecha, female protagonist, alternate history, underground fighting, anime, real robot, ...

Time: near future

Cast

u00c9lodie Yung

Sebastien LaSalle

Valentino LaSalle

Eva De Dominici

The Cleaning Lady (2022) TV Show

7.4 252 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 46

Audience: TV-14

Story: A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

Plot: casino, money laundering, cleaning lady, fbi, blackmail, illegal employment, crime boss, murder, ...

Place: las vegas

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Cast

Carmen Maura

Antonio Banderas

Julieta Serrano

Maru00eda Barranco

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

7.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Plot: infidelity, friendship, airport, madrid, spain, suicide attempt, pregnancy, female friendship, ...

A Certain Scientific Railgun (2009) TV Show

7.4 132 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 73

Audience: TV-14

Story: Misaka's electro-manipulation skills - and her delightfully destructive railgun projectile movement - make her a rock star in Academy City. The techno-metropolis is filled with supernaturally powerful students known as Espers, including Misaka's flirtatious friend and roommate, Shirai Kuroko. She uses her teleportation skills as a member of the Judgment law enforcement team, fighting crime alongside fellow agent Uiharu. Joined by their friend Saten, a spunky Level 0 Esper, Misaka, Kuroko, and Uiharu have a blast taking on danger whenever and wherever it arises.

Plot: supernatural, psychic power, tragedy, school, female protagonist, tokyo, japan, middle school, ...

Cast

Radhika Apte

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Sayani Gupta

Surveen Chawla

Parched (2015)

7.3 98 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Canada, India

Duration: 116 min.

Story: In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Plot: sheep, fire, fight, tradition, pregnancy, fireworks, cave, feminism, ...

Cast

Rosalie Chiang

Sandra Oh

Ava Morse

Hyein Park

Turning Red (2022)

7.3 5.9K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Plot: friendship, concert, temple, shapeshifting, toronto, canada, coming of age, teenage girl, ...

Place: canada

Cast

Rima Kallingal

Fahadh Faasil

Prathap Pothan

Srindaa

22 Female Kottayam (2012)

7.3 32 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 122 min.

Story: Tessa, a young nurse, is betrayed by her lover, Cyril, and sexually assaulted by his employer. After she is released from prison, she sets out to take revenge on her tormentors.

Plot: rape, nurse, revenge, betrayal, jail, female protagonist

Place: bangalore

Cast

Maria Ozawa

Hitomi Kitamura

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Kekko Kamen Premium (2006)

7.3 5 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 72 min.

Story: Sixth release from the hit erotic sci-fi/live action series based on the comic by Go Nagai and starring Maria Ozawa! Get ready for plenty of silly gags and tons of eros.

Plot: superhero, female protagonist, masked superhero

Place: japan

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Annie Girardot

Benou00eet Magimel

Susanne Lothar

The Piano Teacher (2001)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, Austria

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Plot: concert, based on novel or book, music teacher, fetish, conservatory, masochism, victim, piano lessons, ...

Cast

Isabela Merced

Julianne Moore

Marsai Martin

Mckenna Grace

Spirit Untamed (2021)

7.3 572 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Plot: horse, mustang, female protagonist, animals, wild horse, reboot, 3d animation

Cast

Melissa Benoist

Chyler Leigh

David Harewood

Katie McGrath

Supergirl (2015) TV Show

7.3 4.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 126

Audience: TV-14

Story: Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.

Style: intimate

Plot: superhero, based on comic, alien, female protagonist, meditative, candid, thoughtful, loving, ...

Cast

Ana de Armas

Keanu Reeves

Ian McShane

Anjelica Huston

Ballerina (2025)

7.3 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

Plot: assassin, tattoo, grenade, training, female protagonist, female assassin, spin off, flamethrower, ...

Place: austria

Cast

Millie Bobby Brown

Henry Cavill

Sam Claflin

Helena Bonham Carter

Enola Holmes (2020)

7.2 6.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

Style: absurd

Plot: based on novel or book, detective, child prodigy, victorian england, female protagonist, period drama, female detective, speculative, ...

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games (2012)

7.2 23.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

Style: cynical, provocative, tense

Plot: based on novel or book, revolution, dystopia, monarchy, female protagonist, fashion, bow and arrow, game, ...

Cast

Aurora Ribero

Hana Malasan

Andri Mashadi

Adipati Dolken

The Shadow Strays (2024)

7.2 323 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Skilled in the art of killing, a young assassin defies her mentor to save a boy from a ruthless crime syndicate — and she'll destroy anyone in her path.

Plot: mission, martial arts, assassin, gangster, redemption, gore, revenge, gang, ...

Cast

Gal Gadot

Chris Pine

Connie Nielsen

Robin Wright

Wonder Woman (2017)

7.2 21.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.

Plot: island, hero, strong woman, empowerment, superhero, feminism, greek mythology, based on comic, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

Peter Finch

Edith Evans

Peggy Ashcroft

The Nun's Story (1959)

7.2 200 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Plot: nurse, nun, missionary, congo, sanitarium, female protagonist, hospital, tuberculosis, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: belgium

Cast

Natalie Wood

Richard Beymer

Russ Tamblyn

Rita Moreno

West Side Story (1961)

7.2 2.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 153 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.

Style: romantic

Plot: new york city, immigrant, showdown, street gang, slum, love at first sight, highway, forbidden love, ...

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