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Jul 9, 2024 · If you are asking yourself, what are some of the best strong female lead movies this year? Some good examples include Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn, Like a Boss, Underwater, and The Turning. Disney's live action Mulan also promises to be a great movie for women of all ages.
1. Elisabeth Moss. Elisabeth Moss is an American actress. She is best known for the AMC series Mad Men (2007), Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2017) and the films The One I Love (2014) and The Invisible Man (2020). Initially, Moss had aspirations of becoming a professional dancer.
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Emerald Fennell, the former showrunner of Killing Eve, has crafted a frightening and utterly captivating drama about rape and the traumas it causes. Cassie (Carey Mulligan), is a 30-year-old medical school dropout whose life has come to a halt since her childhood best friend was sexually abused and humiliated at a college party. Her assailants face...
Rosamund Pike is one of the few actresses who can play a character who does horrible things and still wins the audiences’ hearts. In I Care A Lot, she played a very Amy-Dunne-like character named Marla Grayson, a professional legal guardian. Marla exploits the legal system to gain care of the elderly to take all of their valuables and assets, which...
Last Night In Soho's audience is never completely orientated in time, much like Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), a social outsider and aspiring fashion designer who is continuously lured into the past to uncover the tragic story of lounge singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy). Eloise and Sandie, the leading ladies, are both resilient, fierce, courageous young...
Elisabeth Moss plays the title role in this story, which is a fictionalized thriller about mystery and horror writer Shirley Jackson, who is best known for works such as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House. Shirley and her husband Stanley (Michael Stuhlbarg) take in Rose and Fred Nesmer (Odessa Young and Logan Lerman), a young newlywed coupl...
Angela, played by Zoë Kravitz, is an agoraphobic lady who works for a large tech business that produced the Alexa-style device, Kimi. She analyzes and updates data from Kimi’s users to improve the quality of the service, and while she’s at it, she overheard a recording of a woman in distress and decides to assist her. RELATED: 10 Techno-Thriller Mo...
I'm Thinking of Ending Things summarizes the viewpoint of an anonymous female lead played by Jessie Buckley, who considers ending her relationship as she travels with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) to visit his parents at their farmhouse. Things become bizarre from there, in true Charlie Kaufman fashion. The film is truly Buckley's show, as she...
Leigh Whannell, the writer/director, recreated the original Universal monster as an obsessive scientist who uses his fantasy invisible technology to fake his death and gaslight his ex-girlfriend Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) to perfection. RELATED: The Best Horror Movies of 2020 (So Far) The Invisible Man is a new, exhilarating, and highly unnerving tak...
Kiera Allen’s character, The Daughter in Run, finds that her loving Mother (Sarah Paulson) is more actively responsible than she could have imagined for her multiple long-term diseases and disabilities. RELATED: Sarah Paulson on 'Run' and Why She Looks for Roles That Scare Her In this film, The Daughter is feisty, accessible, watchable, and effortl...
Mimi Cave's assured directorial debut begins with a critique of modern app-based dating and Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones)’s a horrible first date. Later, she has an unexpected meet-cute with a seemingly more mature and charming Steve (Sebastian Stan) in a grocery store, it’s an invigorating change and he charms her seamlessly. When Steve invites Noa on a...
I'm Your Woman focuses on the spouses and moms who frequently settle in the background of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed crime dramas. Rachel Brosnahanplays an innocent mob doll who is kept in the dark about her husband's illicit activities until she becomes a fleeing target. RELATED: Rachel Brosnahan Reveals Which Unforgettab...
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- The Old Guard (2020) The Old Guard stars Charlize Theron as a woman named Andy (whose full name is Andromache), a centuries-old warrior with regenerative healing abilities who’s recruited by a former CIA agent for a mission.
- Atomic Blonde (2017) Atomic Blonde, based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City, stars Charlize Theron as Lorraine Broughton, a top-level MI6 field agent, who is sent to Berlin during the Cold War in 1989 to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Charlize Theron also stars in Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment of the Mad Max film series. The movie, which is set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland where petrol and water are scarce, follows a man named Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), who meets and joins forces with Imperator Furiosa (Theron) to flee from a cult leader named Immortan Joe and his army, who travel in an armored tanker truck.
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is the first in the Lara Croft film series. The movie, starring Angelina Jolie, is based on the video game series of the same name, which follows an adventurer named Lara Croft, who embarks on a mission to try to recover ancient artifacts from the illuminati.
- Bombshell (17th January) Featuring an impressive cast led by Charlize Theron (Long Shot), Nicole Kidman (The Goldfinch) and Margot Robbie (Mary Queen of Scots), Bombshell centres upon the sexual harassment allegations made against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and the three women who plot to expose him.
- The Rhythm Section (31st January) Based upon the novel of the same name, The Rhythm Section is an globe-trotting thriller depicting the story of Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively).
- Birds of Prey (7th February) Margot Robbie further asserts her stamp on 2020 by returning as anarchic DC antihero Harley Quinn. She first appeared as the character in 2016’s critically derided Suicide Squad, but here the unpredictable, crazed Quinn can take centre stage as she battles vicious crime lord Black Mask (Ewan McGregor).
- Like A Boss (21st February) Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish star as two female friends who have the genius idea of starting a beauty company together.
Nov 29, 2021 · The biggest streaming platforms available to subscribers, and even non-subscribers just passing by, offer a wide range of female-led action movies that should be checked out by any type of film fan. The Old Guard (2020)
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Sep 25, 2022 · From Emma to Along For The Ride, these are the best book to movie adaptations with a female lead!
