Space Movies With Female Leads

Best movies with females in the leading role.

Space movies with female leads. But in a post wonder woman age it can t be denied that audiences are craving films with powerful women who don t need saving by any guy the world is changing said filmmaker patty jenkins at a women s summit in new york this summer. Good science fiction movies are hard to find but good feminist science fiction movies are even more rare. So in honor of star trek we ve made a list of the top 40 kick ass female sci fi characters from some of our favorite tv shows and movies. Strong female lead 19 dance 18 fight 18 friend 18 girl 18 male female relationship 18 strong female character 18 betrayal 17 bus 17 escape 17 family relationships 17 fear 17 heroine 17 love 17 marriage 17 revenge 17 surprise ending 17 tears 17 vomiting 17 cat 16 character name in title 16 church 16 cigarette smoking 16 drunkenness 16 explosion 16.

Box office flops like elektra and catwoman didn t help. Stuart gordon stars. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. Most popular female assassin movies and tv shows refine see titles to watch instantly titles you haven t rated.

Why are there so few films with females as the sole lead. In the trailer a white cop comes across the movie s three central women katherine johnson taraji p. Of the international assassins guild and with a 14 million price tag on his head he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. At least they were until ridley scott s 1979 smash hit alien was released.

And even when we don t find queer women to swoon over we find powerful women to root for. The 11 films below run the gamut from reality based space travel to outlandish science fiction and their depictions of women owning space ships hurling through the galaxy and traveling. After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call one of the crew is attacked by a. A secret space based weapons program known as goldeneye is.

This list shows how women can get top billing and the men are only in minor supporting roles. Tim loane ian beattie olwen fouéré shane rimmer. In the year 2154 the very wealthy live on a man made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined earth. In fact we often find better representation in the fantasy realm than in any other genre.

Henson dorothy vaughan octavia spencer and mary jackson janelle monae marooned on the side of the road thanks to car trouble the alternative one of the women says half joking and half not would be to sit in the back of the bus.