Which Heroines Were Almost Captain Marvel?

With Captain Marvel joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a solo feature hitting theaters in March of 2019,and Disney is already in full advertising blitz mode, debuting a new trailer for the movie. Captain Marvel which is a typical movie, portraying a strong female protagonist. 

Female protagonist now are more expected in a film than before.They are no longer leaves that matches the flower-the hero. 

There are many films below and pick one as the almost Captain Marvel.


Release Date
1999-12-21
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures Corporation, 3 Arts Entertainment
  • Director : James Mangold, Ronit Ravich-Boss
  • Stars : Winona Ryder , Angelina Jolie , Brittany Murphy
  • Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Release Date
2009-08-07
  • Rate : 7
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
  • Director : Nora Ephron
  • Stars : Meryl Streep , Amy Adams , Stanley Tucci
  • Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Release Date
2000-03-17
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures
  • Director : Nicholas Wolfert, Michael Risoli, Gregory Jacobs
  • Stars : Julia Roberts , Albert Finney , Aaron Eckhart
  • A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
Release Date
2016-12-02
  • Rate : 6.7
  • Production Companies : Protozoa Pictures, Bliss Media
  • Director : Pablo Larraín, Hubert Engammare, Bénédicte Darblay
  • Stars : Natalie Portman , Peter Sarsgaard , Greta Gerwig
  • An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Release Date
2011-08-10
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : DreamWorks SKG, 1492 Pictures
  • Director : Cate Hardman, Donald Sparks, Tate Taylor
  • Stars : Emma Stone , Viola Davis , Octavia Spencer
  • Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Release Date
2003-10-10
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Miramax, A Band Apart
  • Director : Martin Kitrosser, Sherrie Liu, Liu Yi Jun
  • Stars : Uma Thurman , Lucy Liu , Vivica A. Fox
  • An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Release Date
2017-12-01
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : Fox Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures
  • Director : Peter Kohn, Martin McDonagh, Jeanette McGrath
  • Stars : Frances McDormand , Woody Harrelson , Sam Rockwell
  • After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Release Date
2018-03-16
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : GK Films, Warner Bros.
  • Director : Roar Uthaug, Lee Grumett, Paula Casarin
  • Stars : Alicia Vikander , Dominic West , Walton Goggins
  • Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
Release Date
2017-07-28
  • Rate : 6.7
  • Production Companies : Focus Features, Denver & Delilah Films
  • Director : David Leitch, Gabriella Winkler, Susie Jones
  • Stars : Charlize Theron , James McAvoy , John Goodman
  • An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Release Date
2002-12-27
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Miramax
  • Director : Stephen Daldry
  • Stars : Julianne Moore , Nicole Kidman , Meryl Streep
  • "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.