Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "girl-heroine"

1. Barbarians (2020–2022)

TV-MA | 569 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Torn between the mighty empire that raised him and his own tribal people, a Roman officer's conflicted allegiances lead to an epic historical clash.

Stars: Laurence Rupp, Jeanne Goursaud, David Schütter, Florian Schmidtke

Votes: 30,266

2. Supergirl (1984)

PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow

Votes: 24,025 | Gross: $13.60M

3. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005)

PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A young boy is recruited by his imaginary friends Sharkboy and Lavagirl to help save their planet.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Cayden Boyd, George Lopez, Kristin Davis, David Arquette

Votes: 42,433 | Gross: $39.18M

4. The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000 Video)

G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

To protect her from a sea witch, Ariel's daughter is not allowed in the ocean; but when she becomes 12, she runs away to an adventure under the sea.

Directors: Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith, Bill Speers | Stars: Tara Strong, Pat Carroll, Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright

Votes: 22,284

5. Dora the Explorer (2000–2019)

TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Along with her friend Monkey Boots, Dora goes on adventures.

Stars: Fatima Ptacek, Regan Mizrahi, Alexandria Suarez, Caitlin Sanchez

Votes: 7,827

6. Totally Spies! (2001–2014)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A trio of boy-crazy, fashionista teen girls from Beverly Hills balance their personal and school lives with their work as super-spies.

Stars: Andrea Baker, Jennifer Hale, Katie Griffin, Adrian Truss

Votes: 12,757

7. Alice in Wonderland (1999 TV Movie)

PG | 150 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 8,857

8. Doc McStuffins (2012–2022)

G | 11 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

"Doc McStuffins" is an imaginative animated series about Doc McStuffins, a young girl who aspires to be a doctor like her mom and communicates with and heals broken toys and stuffed animals.

Stars: Lara Jill Miller, Loretta Devine, Robbie Rist, Jess Harnell

Votes: 2,882

9. The Casagrandes (2019–2022)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Spin-off of "The Loud House (2014)" featuring Ronnie Anne Santiago, who moves to the big city with her mother and older brother Bobby and meets her extended Hispanic family.

Stars: Carlos Alazraqui, Izabella Alvarez, Alex Cazares, Ruben Garfias

Votes: 1,692

10. The Worst Witch (1986 TV Movie)

G | 70 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Mildred Hubble (Fairuza Balk) is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Young | Stars: Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae, Tim Curry, Fairuza Balk

Votes: 3,136

11. The Last Survivors (2014)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A teenage girl fights to protect the last working well in a drought-stricken valley from a greedy water baron.

Director: Tom Hammock | Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Booboo Stewart, Max Charles, Nicole Arianna Fox

Votes: 3,920

12. DC Super Hero Girls (2019–2021)

TV-PG | 11 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Teenage versions of DC Comics superheroines both attend high school and fight crime to protect the citizens of Metropolis.

Stars: Tara Strong, Nicole Sullivan, Myrna Velasco, Kimberly Brooks

Votes: 1,708

13. Catch That Kid (2004)

PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A girl and her two friends raid a bank, looking for the money needed for financing the cure of her dying father.

Director: Bart Freundlich | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Sam Robards, Jennifer Beals, Corbin Bleu

Votes: 10,980 | Gross: $16.70M

14. The Machine Girl (2008)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Maimed while seeking revenge, a girl becomes stronger than ever.

Director: Noboru Iguchi | Stars: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Nobuhiro Nishihara, Kentarô Shimazu

Votes: 10,693

15. BeetleBorgs (1996–1998)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Their wish to become comic book heroes forces three kids to take on the heroes' mortal enemies.

Stars: Billy Forester, Wesley Barker, Herbie Baez, Terence J. Rotolo

Votes: 1,466

16. Chocolate (2008)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama

An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.

Director: Prachya Pinkaew | Stars: JeeJa Yanin, Hiroshi Abe, Pongpat Wachirabunjong, Taphon Phopwandee

Votes: 18,858 | Gross: $0.01M

17. Final Fantasy X (2001 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

A celebrated young athlete is drawn from his futuristic hometown and convenient lifestyle to a harsh and techno-phobic land by a mysterious force only known as Sin.

Director: Yoshinori Kitase | Stars: James Arnold Taylor, Hedy Burress, John DiMaggio, Paula Tiso

Votes: 8,563

18. Immoral Guild (2022)

TV-MA | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

The story follows the skilled hunter Kikuru Madan, who has decided to retire out of fear of wasting his youth. One day, a guild staff member suggests that he go on a quest with a new female martial artist named Hitamu Kyan.

Votes: 370

19. Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A vampire named Saya, who is part of a covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.

Director: Chris Nahon | Stars: Jun Ji-hyun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham, JJ Feild

Votes: 15,293 | Gross: $0.26M

20. Zazie in the Metro (1960)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy

With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. But can a little girl cause so much chaos in the city centre?

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marlier

Votes: 6,751

21. Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)

PG-13 | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

On the distant planet Axis, rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl Kaena defies the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take a perilous journey and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.

Directors: Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Anjelica Huston, Richard Harris, Cécile de France

Votes: 4,175 | Gross: $0.01M

22. Cutie Honey (2004)

94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

The adventure of Cutie Honey, a super heroine who can transform into anything using her necklace to switch on and say "Honey Flash!".

Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Eriko Satô, Mikako Ichikawa, Jun Murakami, Mitsuhiro Oikawa

Votes: 1,998

23. Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)

PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young boy grows up as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.

Director: Manuel Sicilia | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Antonio Banderas, James Cosmo, Charles Dance

Votes: 6,421

24. Home Makeover (2010)

TV-Y7 | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A social worker is coming to Gru's house to check if it's suitable for children. Margo, Edith, Agnes and the Minions must take care of the situation.

Directors: Kyle Balda, Samuel Tourneux | Stars: Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher, Pierre Coffin

Votes: 2,289

25. Ga-Rei-Zero (2008– )

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Follows two friends, daughters of exorcists, who are now members of the government's secret Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division that fights demons when they appear in Japan.

Stars: Minori Chihara, Kaoru Mizuhara, Shin'ya Takahashi, Alexis Tipton

Votes: 777

26. Anaganaga O Dheerudu (2011)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Family

In a teardrop-shaped land called Sangarashtra, a 9-year-old girl with special healing powers tries to save her homeland from the tyranny of an evil queen with the help of a blind swordsman.

Director: Prakash Kovelamudi | Stars: Siddharth, Shruti Haasan, Lakshmi Manchu, Ravi Babu

Votes: 619

27. Go Nagai's New Cutey Honey (1994–1998)

Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In hibernation for years, the body-shifting android Cutey Honey is brought out of her self-imposed stasis to fight the evil Dolmek and his minions of monsters.

Stars: Michiko Neya, Rica Matsumoto, Kôsei Tomita, Wataru Takagi

Votes: 302

28. Cutie Honey (1973–1974)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Honey Kisaragi is Professor Takeshi Kisaragi's daughter. She studies at a religious school from which she likes to escape frequently. Her father orders her to come home one day through a ... See full summary »

Stars: Eiko Masuyama, Kazuko Sawada, Katsuji Mori, Kôsei Tomita

Votes: 186

29. Simoun (2006)

TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the world of Daikuuriku, everyone is born female, and chooses which sex they wish to become at age 17. In this world, the peaceful theocracy of Simulacrum is guarded by magical flying ... See full summary »

Stars: Mamiko Noto, Nana Mizuki, Megumi Toyoguchi, Houko Kuwashima

Votes: 168

30. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham

Votes: 546

31. Parachute Nurse (1942)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Hospital nurses Glenda White (Marguerite Chapman) and Dottie Morrison (Kay Harris) join the newly-formed corps of parachute nurses to be dropped at sites where ordinary medical aide is ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, William Wright, Kay Harris, Lauretta M. Schimmoler

Votes: 57

32. Police x Heroine Lovepatrina! ~Challenge from a Phantom Thief! Let's Arrest with Love and a Pat!~ (2021)

77 min | Action, Fantasy

Movie version of the series "Police x Heroine Lovepatrina!".

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Yura Sugiura, Miyu Watanabe, Rina Yamaguchi, Yui Yamashita

Votes: 11

33. Heroines Run the Show (2022– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Music

Hiyori left her hometown to continue pursuing her passion of track, enrolls in Tokyo High School. In searching for a part-time job, she ends up an apprentice manager for classmates Someya and Shibasaki, members of the idol group LIPxLIP.

Stars: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kôki Uchiyama, Inori Minase, Ai Kayano

Votes: 143

34. Rogues Gallery (1944)

Approved | 60 min | Mystery, Thriller

Reporter Patsy Reynolds (Robin Raymond) and photographer Eddie Porter (Frank Jenks) are assigned to interview John Foster (Davison Clark), head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker

Votes: 186

35. Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~ (2020)

78 min | Family

They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace. One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role. That's right, if this is the case, let's make ... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Takumi Saitô, Tsubasa Honda, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Miyu Sasaki

Votes: 16

36. Hana no Asuka gumi (1988– )

TV-PG | Family, Comedy, Drama

Hana no Asuka-gumi. is a Japanese manga by Satosumi Takaguchi serialized in Monthly Asuka. It was adapted into a television drama series. It is one of the series with delinquent girls popular in the 1980s.

Stars: Megumi Odaka, Natsuki Ozawa, Hikari Ishida, Shiori Sakura

Votes: 18

37. Koihime musô (2008)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Orphaned by murdering bandits, Kanu becomes a well-known traveling bandit-slayer. At one village, she stumbles upon an orphaned warrior-child. Kanu adopts her as her little sister and continues her journey to change the world.

Stars: Nami Kurokawa, Hiroka Nishizawa, Kôzô Dôzaka, Emi Motoi

Votes: 80

38. Secret of the Chateau (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Inspector Marotte, attending an auction of rare collectible books previously owned by the recently murdered M. Le Duc de Poisse, hopes he can catch his old nemesis Prahec, a murderer and book thief.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Claire Dodd, Alice White, Osgood Perkins, Jack La Rue

Votes: 134

39. Venus Versus Virus (2007)

24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Pricked by a special broach, Sumire finds herself able to see evil spirits (viruses). Lucia exterminates viruses and mistakenly shoots Sumire with an antiviral bullet, which transforms her ... See full summary »

Stars: John Swasey, Blake Shepard, Carli Mosier, Joanne Bonasso

Votes: 95

40. Slayers Return (1996)

Not Rated | 61 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Outrageous enemies such as secret organizations aiming to dominate the world and mysterious strongest fighting forces attack Lina and Naga one after another for legendary "treasure" lying ... See full summary »

Directors: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kunihiko Yuyama | Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Maria Kawamura, Akiko Hiramatsu, Akio Ôtsuka

Votes: 502

41. The Gold Racket (1937)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.

Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Fuzzy Knight, Frank Milan

Votes: 108

42. Stella und der Stern des Orients (2008)

86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

On New Year's Eve 2005, little Stella visits her grandma in the family home. Unknowingly she activates a time-travel machine and is transported back to the year 1905, where she meets some long-gone relatives when they were her age.

Director: Erna Schmidt | Stars: Laura Berschuck, Hanna Schwamborn, Julius Römer, Hans-Martin Stier

Votes: 67

43. This Is the Life (1935)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.

Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler

Votes: 60

44. A Burglar to the Rescue (1931)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Crime, Mystery

The story is about a bank president who has been stealing from the bank. One night, as he is working on the books to cover his crimes,a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ... See full summary »

Director: George Cochrane | Stars: Thurston Hall, Charlotte Wynters, Frank Shannon, Arthur Aylesworth

Votes: 42

45. I'm Not Britney (2008)

3 min | Short

Global beauty Ndoema stars in this socially defiant and visually dazzling film boasting sixteen wardrobe changes, eight international leading men, a host of young women spanning five ... See full summary »

Director: Phillip Christon | Stars: Ndoema, Mykkhul Acklin, Samrat Chakrabarti, Kuniko Cole

46. That's My Story! (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

A reporter desperate for a story tries to interview a gangster's girlfriend jailed in a small town. He gets himself thrown in the same jail and runs into a female reporter with the same ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Claudia Morgan, William Lundigan, Herbert Mundin, Hobart Cavanaugh

47. The Crimson Challenge (1922)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

In the cattle town of Lost Valley, Buck Courtrey, saloon owner and political boss, covets Tharon, daughter of Jim Last, a small rancher; and when rebuffed, he has Last killed. Tharon swears... See full summary »

Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Jack Mower, Frank Campeau, Irene Hunt

Votes: 26

48. The Rows

Horror, Thriller | Post-production

Little girl hides from masked home invaders in mysterious cornfield. Deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues as the rows reveal their secrets.

Director: Seth Daly | Stars: Lara Pictet, Brindisi Dupree, Marcus Woods, Seth Daly

49. The Mission Carrier (1911)

Short, Drama, Romance

The carrier from old Mexico arrives at the mission. A girl in the crowd outside the mission goes to tell the priest the carrier has come. The priest, walking down the steps of the mission, ... See full summary »

Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Alice Joyce

50. Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (1988 Video Game)

E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The monsters are attacking the quiet town of Xenobia, Guide Leo and Priscilla to wipe out the monsters using the Legendary Weapons.

Director: Ryuichi Nishizawa

Votes: 43