Top Female Hero Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Perdita Weeks

Ben Feldman

Edwin Hodge

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As Above, So Below (2014)

6.7 3.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

Style: intense

Plot: treasure, paris, france, loss of loved one, catacombs, female protagonist, scientist, archaeologist, ...

Cast

Kaitlyn Dever

Elizabeth Kaluev

Zack Duhame

Lauren L. Murray

No One Will Save You (2023)

6.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.

Plot: isolation, trauma, grief, female protagonist, alien abduction, home invasion, guilt, death of mother, ...

Cast

Naomi Watts

Martin Henderson

David Dorfman

Brian Cox

The Ring (2002)

6.7 6.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

Style: terrifying, absurd, intense

Plot: journalist, island, drowning, investigation, supernatural, horse, telephone, paranormal, ...

Cast

Gal Gadot

Jamie Dornan

Alia Bhatt

Sophie Okonedo

Heart of Stone (2023)

6.7 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.

Plot: mission, saving the world, undercover agent, undercover, espionage, spy, secret agent, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Rachel Sennott

Olga Petsa

Jason Jones

Sabrina Jalees

I Used to Be Funny (2024)

6.7 64 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Canada

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Sam, an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, weighs whether to join the search for Brooke, a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. As she fights to recover from her trauma and return to the stage, memories of her deep bond with Brooke rush back—making it impossible to ignore her disappearance.

Style: melancholy, intimate

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), toronto, canada, nanny, comedian, female protagonist, woman director, sexual assault, ...

Cast

Kajol

Ronit Roy

Indraneil Sengupta

Jitin Gulati

Maa (2025)

6.7 65 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: India

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A mother and daughter encounter a demon in a village where girls have been disappearing.

Plot: female protagonist, folk horror, supernatural horror, mother and daughter, feminist horror, shaitaan universe

Cast

Rani Mukerji

Tahir Raj Bhasin

Jisshu Sengupta

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Sanjay Taneja

Mardaani (2014)

6.7 123 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A Mumbai police officer's search for a missing teenage girl leads her to the depraved world of child trafficking. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the officer and a ruthless mafia kingpin.

Plot: rape, kidnapping, brothel, pimp, investigation, villain, fistfight, rape victim, ...

Cast

Konami Yoshida

Kousuke Okano

Kinryu Arimoto

Rokuro Naya

Kite (1998)

6.6 188 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 50 min.

Story: Sawa, orphaned as a child by murderous thugs, now targets the scourge of society as a trained killer for a mercenary syndicate. Coquettish and capable of unimaginable violence, she's grown into the perfect weapon — but doubt takes hold in Sawa's mind when her fellow assassin, Oburi, decides he wants out.

Plot: assassin, killing, gore, revenge, vigilante, female protagonist, orphan, adult animation, ...

Cast

Tabu

Atul Kulkarni

Ananya Khare

Rajpal Yadav

Chandni Bar (2001)

6.6 30 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 150 min.

Story: The gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.

Plot: dancing, rape, gangster, tragedy, murder, female protagonist, prostitution, juvenile delinquent

Cast

Geena Davis

Samuel L. Jackson

Patrick Malahide

Craig Bierko

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

6.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

Plot: martial arts, amnesia, assassination, strong woman, escape, chase, hostage, spy, ...

Hanna (2011)

6.6 3.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

Plot: assassin, berlin, germany, strong woman, self sacrifice, empowerment, killing, feminism, ...

Place: finland

Cast

Lindsay Lohan

Jamie Lee Curtis

Harold Gould

Chad Michael Murray

Freaky Friday (2003)

6.6 4.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.

Plot: high school, concert, sibling relationship, single parent, mistake in person, bride, body exchange, fortune cookie, ...

Cast

Helen Slater

Keith Gordon

Christian Slater

Richard Bradford

The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)

6.6 208 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.

Plot: sexual abuse, chase, runaway, fugitive, girl heroine, female protagonist, false accusations, attempted rape, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Kristen Stewart

Katy O'Brian

Ed Harris

Dave Franco

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

6.5 979 votes

Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Plot: homicide, blackmail, fbi, new mexico, eroticism, bisexuality, american dream, addiction, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Maika Monroe

Nicolas Cage

Blair Underwood

Alicia Witt

Longlegs (2024)

6.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

Style: haunting

Plot: homicide, fbi, religion and supernatural, satanism, barn, satanist, code, oregon, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Emily Blunt

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Ben Whishaw

Emily Mortimer

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

6.5 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Plot: london, england, based on novel or book, magic, nanny, musical, family relationships, sequel, ...

Time: 1930s

Cast

Deborah Secco

Cu00e1ssio Gabus Mendes

Drica Moraes

Fabiula Nascimento

Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)

6.5 509 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Brazil

Duration: 109 min.

Story: Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

Plot: daughter, call girl, rehabilitation, affectation, based on true story, sao paulo, brazil, family relationships, ...

Place: brazil

Cast

Kate Beckinsale

Stanley Tucci

Bobby Cannavale

Jai Courtney

Jolt (2021)

6.5 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Bulgaria, France

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.

Plot: homicide, dark comedy, crime boss, female protagonist, one man army, electro shock, duringcreditsstinger, woman director, ...

Cast

Angelina Jolie

Pierfrancesco Favino

Alba Rohrwacher

Haluk Bilginer

Maria (2024)

6.5 473 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: Germany, Italy

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Plot: opera, paris, france, surrealism, biography, based on true story, female protagonist, period drama, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Emily Blunt

Rebecca Ferguson

Haley Bennett

Luke Evans

The Girl on the Train (2016)

6.4 6.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India, United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

Plot: infidelity, new york city, amnesia, based on novel or book, obsession, homicide, blackout, alcoholism, ...

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