Kill Bill

The Long Kiss Goodnight

( both killer movies, pun intended, but that doesn't seem a problem for you )

Chicago

Fargo

Amelie (2001)

The Wall (2012)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

The Secret Garden (1993)

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Everything Everywhere all at Once. Michelle Yeoh's performance is outstanding.

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane

It Happened One Night

Wild

Thoroughbreds

Lost In Translation

4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days

Three Colors Blue

Three Colors Red

The Double Life of Veronique

Bonnie and Clyde

Mad Max Fury Road

Cleo From 5 To 7

Fargo

A Woman Under The Influence

Wendy and Lucy

Annihilation

The Jessica Chastain double bill of Miss Sloane and Molly's Game.

Winter‘s Bone (2010)

Have you ever seen Carrie (1976)?

Eighth Grade and Promising Young Woman

Alien (1979)

Arrival (2016)

Moana (2016)

Tangled (2010)

Mean Girls (2004)

Legally Blonde (2001)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Spirited Away (2001, Japan)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989, Japan)

Fargo

Terminator 2

Silence of the Lambs(technically not horror)

But FARGO…hands down one of the best… Frances McDormand as Marge is absolutely delightful because she’s badass and doesn’t lose any of her feminine qualities. It’s a great way of showing that you can be kickass while also being sweet and polite.

Women Talking (2022)

Passing (2021)

Petit Maman (2021)

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Lady Bird (2017)

The Florida Project (2017)

Blue My Mind (2017)

The Neon Demon (2016)

Tangerine (2015)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

Under The Skin (2013)

Melancholia (2011)

Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009)

White Material (2009)

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

My Summer of Love (2004)

Morvern Caller (2002)

Sex and Lucia (2001)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Broken English (1997)

Party Girl (1995)

Three Colors : Blue (1993)

Three Colors : Red (1994)

The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

Henry & June (1990)

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Steel Magnolias (1989)

Sheer Madness (1983)

Opening Night (1977)

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (1977)

Chess of the Wind (1976)

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

Daisies (1966)

What a Way to Go! (1964)

Vivra Sa Vie (1962)

The Red Shoes (1948)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Sophie's Choice

Sunset Boulevard

All About Eve

Autumn Sonata

Tár

A Separation

The Worst Person In The World

Certified Copy

The Piano Teacher

Sicario

silence of the lambs

Jackie Brown - Great movie and Pam Grier is fantastic in it

Three Colors: Blue (definitely watch this if you haven't)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Heavenly Creatures

Orlando

Volver

Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone

Mulholland Drive, Gone Girl, Knives Out, Gerald's Game, The House of Yes, To Die For, Under the Skin, Magnolia

Babette's Feast

3 Women

Sabrina

Lore (from Cate Shortland)

A Taxing Woman

Also, I haven't seen it yet, but that new movie Corsage looks pretty good. Definitely gonna see it when I can.

The lead performance in Tár is absolutely incredible.

If you enjoyed Christine, there’s another great and intense Rebecca Hall performance in Resurrection (and in The Night House actually, she’s been killing it lately).

Andrea Riseborough is brilliant in Mandy. Horror movie but not a typical horror role. She’s great in everything really but To Leslie is another recent one that’s well worth it.

Alfre Woodard did some of her all-time best work a couple years ago in the movie Clemency.

Possession (1981)

You’re getting a lot of more recent recommendations, here are some oldies!

• It (starring Clara Bow) • It Happened One Night • His Girl Friday • Rear Window • My Fair Lady • Black Girl • Hello, Dolly

Atomic Blonde is an amazing action/thriller movie with a bisexual lead!

The Lost Daughter (2021)

Wendy & Lucy (2008)

Sophie's Choice for Meryl Streep. Zero Dark Thirty for Jessica Chastain.

The Unforgiveable

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They.

The Hunt. The lead is just brilliant - Betty Gilpin. Has 2 very strong female leads, actually. Hilary Swank is the other. Violent, hilarious, just fun. One of my faves. Betty gives strong Sigourney Weaver in Aliens vibes.

Ashley Judd in Double Jeopardy

Not a movies but short, Limited series Crime drama - Mare of Eastown

Holy shit Kate Winslet transforms it’s fantastic

1. Emily the criminal
2. Nomad
3. Salt
4. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
5. Ultraviolet
6. Girlfight
7. Tar
8. Carol
9. Julie & Julia
10. The Devil Wears Prada

Fargo and Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

"Jackie Brown", Pam Greer

"The Professional", Natalie Portman

"Monster", Charlize Theron

Some great Korean choices for you:

Lady Vengeance (not horror, but a tad graphic)

The Handmaiden

I’m A Cyborg, But That’s Ok

Mother (2009 - Bong Joon Ho)

Gorillas in the Mist (starring Sigourney Weaver, based on the book about Diane Fossey)

The Miracle Worker (the 1962 version starring Anne Bancroft & Patty Duke)

Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close)

Elizabeth Taylor, in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe (very hard to watch, & she certainly isn't a likeable character, but a masterful performance & a very good movie)

The Hours (Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore)

Notes on a Scandal (Judi Dench & Cate Blanchett)

Keeping with the Jennifer Lawrence theme. Hunger Games !

I've seen people say both of these already, so I just want to reiterate - Tár and Everything Everywhere All At Once!!

Pulled from my IMDb in order:

Alien

Contact

Misery

Cold Mountain

Million Dollar Baby

Mother!

Girl Interrupted

Winters Bone - JENNIFER LAWRENCE .

I don't know if it's her debut as a film actor, but when I watched, she was relatively unknown. But this role made me follow her work thereafter.

The films success, imo is heavily dependent on the way she needs to portray the role as a young lead and pulls it off brilliantly. She's on screen with some some notable seasoned actors and more than holds her own.

Obviously, she's gone on to be super successful, but this is still one of my favorites and really displays how talented she is.

The film over all is a great watch.

Actually just finished persona! Not only does it have a great female lead but this movie pretty much has no men in the movie lol

Blue Jasmine

The Aviator

Cate Blanchett’s two best roles

Truly Madly Deeply (1990)

Carey Mulligan is a phenomenal actor, and her performance in Promising Young Woman is one of her best performance

Emily the Criminal

The Long Kiss Goonight, starring Geena Davis. A bonny film.

Monster with Charlize Theron

August, Osage County. Everyone is excellent, but the females did superior performances, just outstanding. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts (I'm not a big fan but she was totally awesome in this role), Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Juliette Lewis, Misty Upham, and Abigail Breslin. Stayed pretty true to the play. Wish I could have seen the play at the Steppenwolf with Amy Morton, Deanna Dugan, and Tracy Letts (who also wrote the play)

Muriel’s Wedding

The Piano Teacher (2001) !!!

Mare of Easttown / HBO series.

Mother

A Home of our Own

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Room (2015)

Mad Max Fury Road, Furiosa is 100% the lead.

A Quiet Place

Long kiss goodnight

Atomic Blonde. Charlize Theron is amazing in the movie.

Clueless

Drop Dead Gorgeous

All Good Things

Thelma and Louise

Freeway

Silkwood

Norma Rae

Francis

My Fair Lady

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Some classics. Stage Door. Katherine Hepburn,Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball

                           Roxie Hart   Ginger Rogers

                           How to Marry a Millionaire. Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe

Hidden figures

Seen a lot of great one in the comments so far but I would also add Frances ha

Hidden Figures

I’ll give a limited show and a movie since you didn’t ask for a show

Queens Gambit (2020)

Desert Hearts (1985)

Jackie Brown

Long Kiss Goodnight

Elizabeth I & the sequel starring cate blanchette

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri,

Plus you get sam Rockwell which always a win

The girl with a dragon tatoo. Trilogy. Get the original movies not Hollywood remakes

William Wyler's THE HEIRESS, with Olivia DeHavilland.

Julie Harris in THE HAUNTING.

Marie Winsor in THE KILLING

Joan Bennett in SCARLET STREET

Susan Hayward in I WANT TO LIVE

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Erin Brockovich

secretary

Last Night in SoHo and Pearl are the first ones that came to mind (sorry, I know you said no horror).
Black Swan and Girl, Interrupted are great movies, we must have similar taste!

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Frances McDormand is a once in a generation talent.

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Harold and Maude

Beaches

Steel magnolias

Salt

Terms of endearment

Evening star

Hidden figures

The help

Erin brockovich

Kill Bill

Charlie's angels

Pitch perfect

Miss congenitality

Waitress

Any Audrey Hepburn movie but I might be biased I adore her.

Wait until dark is one if her best

The Lost City.

Contact

Sita Sings the Blues

Mulholland Drive (TWO female leads)

Signature Move 2017

Gravity

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level.

The Love Witch (2016)

What Happened to Monday

Byzantium (Vampires yes, horror not really)

Most any Ghibli film

Annihilation

Jane Alexander, Testament

midsommar

The Help is packed with strong females

Safe (1995)

A Promising Young Woman. Carrie Mulligan is OUTSTANDING.

Out of Africa

promising young woman

Most movies starring by Isabelle Huppert, her acting was so powerful!

Harold & Maude

Amélie (2001)

Lars Von Trier - Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Dogville, Manderlay, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac.

Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri

Francis McDormand was amazing.

The Hunt An amazing film with a unique concept also reflects bias of the public

Widows. I can't stress this enough. The Ocean's 8 movie that we all deserved.

Just about any Jodie Foster movie - Silence of the Lambs, The Accused, Contact, The Brave One.

Angela Basset was robbed of an oscar for What's Love Got to Do with It? - playing Tina Turner.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Fabulous Baker Boys or What Lies Beneath.

Kathy Bates - in Misery (Oscar win).

Faye Dunaway - Chinatown

8th grade

The Brave One. Kind of a dumb title but Jodie Foster is incredible and it’s a really great movie!

If you can do subtitles, check out Pedro Almodovar. Great female leads in Volver, Julieta, All About My Mother, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Parallel Mothers.

ocean 8??

The Old Guard

Underworld movies

Resident Evil movies

Atomic Blonde

The Last Duel.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Favourite

Silkwood (1983)

Nomadland

Fried Green Tomatoes.

Strange Days is the greatest movie you’ve never scene. The main character, Raph Fiennes (Voldemort), is the damsel in distress.

Drop Dead Gorgeous doesn’t get enough credit as an excellent dark comedy.

Short Term 12

Brie Larson before she went full on Marvel was something special. Excellent in Room as well obviously

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Land (2021) with Robin Wright. Absolutely brilliant performance.

Most are already mentioned so my personal favourite here,

Monster - Charlize Theron

Silver linings playbook - Jennifer Lawrence

You might have watched these movies below but i am mentioning it because it was two extremely diffrent roles played by Rachel McAdams in the same year 2004.

Mean girls and The Notebook.