60+ Science Fiction Movies With a Female Protagonist

Celebrating women who kick serious scifi butt

Dale Thomas
12 min readDec 14, 2020

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1. 10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Kidnapped and locked in a shelter by a crazy conspiracy theorist, Michelle must find a way to escape and see what’s going on outside for herself.

2. Advantageous

Advantageous (2015)

Gwen Koh lives in a world of decreasing fertility and body-swapping. A slow-paced look at the nature of self and the uniqueness of the human spirit.

3. Æon Flux

Æon Flux (2005)

The survivors of a terrible plague live in a seemingly idyllic city. However, all is not as it seems, and Æon Flux is sent on a mission to discover the truth and hopefully set humanity free again.

4. Alien

Alien (1979)

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Dale Thomas
Dale Thomas

Written by Dale Thomas

Scifi writer, roboticist, and game developer, 2x Quora Top Writer. I write about writing speculative fiction, computer graphics, AI, evolution, and programming.

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