Top rated movies with female lead cast that have deft directing

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with female lead cast and deft directing! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with female lead cast and deft directing, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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2019-09-18 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel

Rating

rating icon 8.151
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    exquisite
  2. Ranked #1 for
    painterly director
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ravishing

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2 Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.

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2020-03-13 | Drama

Cast

Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder

Rating

rating icon 7.165
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    humane
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ample support
  3. Ranked #2 for
    truthful

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3 Ammonite (2020)

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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2020-11-13 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan

Rating

rating icon 7.016
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    glum
  2. Ranked #1 for
    acting with subtle gesture
  3. Ranked #2 for
    dour subject

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4 The Assistant (2020)

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

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2020-01-31 | Drama

Cast

Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    alarming
  2. Ranked #2 for
    utterly boring
  3. Ranked #2 for
    high-powered

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5 Shiva Baby (2021)

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

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2021-04-02 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon

Rating

rating icon 7.195
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slightly irritating voice
  2. Ranked #1 for
    compact
  3. Ranked #1 for
    claustrophobic atmosphere

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6 Polite Society (2023)

Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

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2023-04-27 | Comedy / Action

Cast

Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya

Rating

rating icon 6.325
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sisterhood
  2. Ranked #2 for
    invigorating
  3. Ranked #2 for
    infectious

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7 Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

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2022-09-23 | Adventure / Comedy

Cast

Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper

Rating

rating icon 6.119
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sassy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rambunctious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    impish character

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8 Extra Ordinary (2019)

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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2019-09-13 | Fantasy / Comedy

Cast

Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward

Rating

rating icon 6.482
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    melodious music
  2. Ranked #1 for
    genuinely witty
  3. Ranked #1 for
    chuckle worthy

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9 Swallow (2020)

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.

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2020-01-15 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    mood piece
  2. Ranked #1 for
    psychological drama
  3. Ranked #1 for
    magnetizing

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10 Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020)

Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.

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2020-02-28 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross

Rating

rating icon 5.505
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brief role
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like The Prestige
  3. Ranked #1 for
    promising start

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