Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "female-protagonist"

51. Call the Midwife (2012– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, History

Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Laura Main, Jenny Agutter, Stephen McGann

Votes: 31,444

52. Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.

Director: Olivia Newman | Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn

Votes: 120,755 | Gross: $90.23M

53. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz

Votes: 1,085,416 | Gross: $154.06M

54. Parks and Recreation (2009–2015)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.

Stars: Amy Poehler, Jim O'Heir, Nick Offerman, Chris Pratt

Votes: 287,765

55. The Hunger Games (2012)

PG-13 | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.

Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 1,003,211 | Gross: $408.01M

56. Once Upon a Time (2011–2018)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.

Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle

Votes: 236,952

57. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent

Votes: 1,582,844 | Gross: $120.54M

58. True Blood (2008–2014)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.

Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten

Votes: 260,001

59. Midsommar (2019)

R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper

Votes: 402,416 | Gross: $27.33M

60. Mindhunter (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the late 1970s, two FBI agents broaden the realm of criminal science by investigating the psychology behind murder and end up getting too close to real-life monsters.

Stars: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Hannah Gross

Votes: 335,417

61. Priscilla (2023)

R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 34,403

62. Fool Me Once (2024)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Widowed mum Maya is disturbed by an image of her late husband captured on her toddler's nanny cam.

Stars: Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 52,511

63. New Girl (2011–2018)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her - most of the time.

Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Hannah Simone

Votes: 245,365

64. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen

Votes: 1,192,939 | Gross: $70.10M

65. Money Heist (2017–2021)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain.

Stars: Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño, Pedro Alonso

Votes: 531,632

66. Desperate Housewives (2004–2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor.

Stars: Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria

Votes: 139,670

67. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.

Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan

Votes: 532,264 | Gross: $72.86M

68. Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019)

TV-MA | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting drug money, ordinarily law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to 18 months behind bars and quickly discovers the realities of life-changing prison time.

Stars: Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Emma Myles

Votes: 320,034

69. Manifest (2018–2023)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When a commercial airliner suddenly reappears after being missing for five years, those aboard must reintegrate into society.

Stars: Melissa Roxburgh, Josh Dallas, J.R. Ramirez, Luna Blaise

Votes: 91,231

70. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 949,810 | Gross: $78.90M

71. Derry Girls (2018–2022)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland.

Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Kathy Kiera Clarke

Votes: 58,179

72. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.

Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik

Votes: 384,853 | Gross: $38.18M

73. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is seventy-five years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 77,264

74. The Good Wife (2009–2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm.

Stars: Julianna Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry

Votes: 82,647

75. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,547,337 | Gross: $130.74M

76. Evil (2019–2024)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A skeptical clinical psychologist joins a priest-in-training and a blue collar contractor as they investigate supposed abnormal events, including, demonic possession, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there's a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural's at work.

Stars: Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Emerson

Votes: 32,397

77. The Legend of Korra (2012–2014)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Avatar Korra fights to keep Republic City safe from the evil forces of both the physical and spiritual worlds.

Stars: Janet Varney, P.J. Byrne, David Faustino, J.K. Simmons

Votes: 137,807

78. Sixteen Candles (1984)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday is anything but special: her family forgets about it, and she suffers from every embarrassment possible.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling

Votes: 126,233 | Gross: $23.69M

79. Léon: The Professional (1994)

R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama

12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello

Votes: 1,245,007 | Gross: $19.50M

80. Mean Girls (2004)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey

Votes: 434,872 | Gross: $86.06M

81. Homeland (2011–2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

Stars: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Damian Lewis, Rupert Friend

Votes: 360,818

82. Superstore (2015–2021)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

A look at the lives of employees at a big box store.

Stars: Ben Feldman, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nico Santos

Votes: 69,317

83. Annihilation (I) (2018)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong

Votes: 361,095 | Gross: $32.73M

84. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023– )

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

An elf and her friends defeat a demon king in a great war. But the war is over, and the elf must search for a new way of life.

Stars: Atsumi Tanezaki, Kana Ichinose, Mallorie Rodak, Jill Harris

Votes: 14,738

85. Arrival (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg

Votes: 770,278 | Gross: $100.55M

86. Imaginary (2024)

PG-13 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.

Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: DeWanda Wise, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Betty Buckley

Votes: 8,974

87. American Beauty (1999)

R | 122 min | Drama

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley

Votes: 1,210,383 | Gross: $130.10M

88. Extraordinary (2023– )

TV-MA | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Jen is a self-aware young woman who lives in a world where everybody except her has a superpower.

Stars: Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham, Bilal Hasna, Luke Rollason

Votes: 16,012

89. All the Light We Cannot See (2023)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, History, War

The story of Marie-Laure, a blind French teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Stars: Aria Mia Loberti, Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger, Hugh Laurie

Votes: 44,004

90. Lessons in Chemistry (2023)

TV-MA | Drama

Set in the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a chemist is put on hold when she finds herself pregnant, alone, and fired from her lab.

Stars: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig

Votes: 34,831

91. It Ends with Us (2024)

Drama, Romance | Filming

Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.

Director: Justin Baldoni | Stars: Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Alex Neustaedter

92. Ahsoka (2023– )

TV-14 | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

Stars: Rosario Dawson, David Tennant, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Votes: 110,334

93. Not Dead Yet (2023– )

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Follows Nell Serrano, broke, newly single and feeling old, who is working to restart the life and career she left behind 10 years ago.

Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Hannah Simone, Lauren Ash, Rick Glassman

Votes: 7,768

94. Devs (2020)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.

Stars: Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha, Cailee Spaeny

Votes: 47,756

95. Spring Breakers (2012)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.

Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine

Votes: 148,728 | Gross: $14.12M

96. Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)

TV-G | Action, Adventure, Family | Post-production

Follows Red, daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and Chloe, daughter of Cinderella, as they team up to save Auradon by traveling in back in time using the White Rabbit's pocket watch, to stop an event that would cause grave consequences.

Director: Jennifer Phang | Stars: Rita Ora, China Anne McClain, Jeremy Swift, Kylie Cantrall

97. The Queen's Gambit (2020)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama

Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.

Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp, Marcin Dorocinski

Votes: 552,247

98. The Notebook (2004)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Romance

An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling

Votes: 619,765 | Gross: $81.00M

99. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

R | 102 min | Drama

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Votes: 898,204 | Gross: $3.64M

100. 365 Days (2020)

TV-MA | 114 min | Drama, Romance

Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give her 365 days to fall in love with him.

Directors: Barbara Bialowas, Tomasz Mandes | Stars: Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Michele Morrone, Bronislaw Wroclawski, Otar Saralidze

Votes: 98,402