Top female-led gripping thrillers on Lionsgate Play: Mothers' Instinct, Atomic Blonde, Dhakshina, and more....

The entertainment industry stunned audiences with dramatic storylines, memorable songs, and larger-than-life characters. However, it has historically relied on stereotypes for female roles, often relegating women to secondary characters defined solely by their appearance. Fortunately, the film industry is undergoing a significant shift in recent time, with strong, independent female leads driving a revolution that challenges traditional notions of women both on and off screen. For example like Anne Hathaway's Mothers' Instinct, or Daisy Ridley's The Marsh King's Daughter, or Sai Dhanshika's Indian film Dhakshina, experience these bind-bending female-led films on Lionsgate Play and OTTplay Premium.

Strong female-led thrillers on OTTplay Premium:

Mothers' Instinct

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chestain, Joshi Charles, Caroline Lagerfelt, Keeley Miller, Anders Danielson Lie

Alice and Celine are two seemingly perfect housewives and best friends as well, who live next door to each other. But when a devastating accident disrupts their perfect lives, their bond begins to fray as guilt, suspicion, and paranoia take hold, threatening to destroy their friendship.

Atomic Blonde

Cast: Charlize Theron, Sofia Boutella, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Toby Jones, Sam Hargrave

Lorraine Broughton, a skilled operative, who works for MI6, is dispatched on a high-stakes mission to Berlin. Her mission is to recover a highly classified list that has fallen into the wrong hands. With the city's future hanging in the balance and the espionage landscape shifting rapidly, Broughton must navigate the dangerous underworld of spies and double agents to retrieve the list and prevent it.

The Marsh King's Daughter

Cast: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, Girl Birmingham, Brooklynn Prince, Garrett Hedlund

A young mother's life turns upside down when her father, who's a convicted kidnapper, escapes from prison. Forced to confront the dark troubled past, she becomes convinced that he plans to target her own daughters. Determined to protect them, she sets out on a perilous quest to track down her father and stop him, no matter the cost.

Dhakshina

Cast: Sai Dhanshika, Senha Singh, Rishav Basu, Ankitha Melur, Meghna Choudhary, Himanshu Sailaja, Karuna, Naveen

The Telugu drama follows a serial killer terrorising the city of Vizag. A police officer, determined to catch the killer, arrests a woman who has been seen at each crime scene. As the investigation progresses, the officer uncovers a shocking twist that could change the entire case.

Fear the Night

Cast: Maggie Q, Highdee Kaun, Kat Foster, Gia Crovatian, Kristin Leigh, Travis Hammer

A group of eight women gather at a farmhouse in California for a bachelorette party, but their celebration soon takes a deadly turn when masked intruders kidnap them, surrounding the house and firing arrows at the guests. With their lives at stake, a former female military member among them, takes charge and leads the women in a desperate fight for survival as they battle to protect themselves and make it through the night.