Best Female Lead movies of 1990s

Actors : Randee Allen, Roy Scheider, Julianne Moore, Noah Wyle,
Directors : Bart Freundlich,

An ambitious debut for writer/director Bart Freundlich charting the unrest with a family who gather together for thanks giving.

Actors : Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Destiny. Faith (Marisa Tomei) believes that two soul-mates can be united if they find each other. From the Ouija board, she has found the name of her missing half, and it is D-A-M-O-N ...

Actors : Benno Fürmann, Franka Potente, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to ...

Actors : Cher, Bob Hoskins, Michael Schoeffling, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.

Actors : David Roberts, Rachel Griffiths, Sandy Winton, Yael Stone,
Directors : Pip Karmel,

Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A freak accident ...

Actors : Mary Walsh, Liane Balaban, Nicholas Campbell, Tara Spencer-Nairn,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, Gabriel Byrne, Bridget Fonda, Miguel Ferrer,
Directors : John Badham,

Drug addict Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can...

Actors : Gaby Hoffmann, Rachael Leigh Cook, Lynn Redgrave, Kirsten Dunst,
Directors : Sarah Kernochan,

In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood ...

Actors : Jacques Viala, Paul Pavel, Nathalie Baye, Sergi López,
Directors : Frédéric Fonteyne,

They recount their impressions to the Interviewer. They met through a magazine ad, She and He. They corresponded through the Internet. He responded to her ad seeking someone to fulfil her ...

Actors : Vanessa Williams, Andy Garcia, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth,
Directors : Bill Duke,

Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.

Actors : Matthew Settle, Nathan Bexton, Lori Heuring, Susan Ward,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

Actors : Jay O. Sanders, Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor,
Directors : Gavin O'Connor,

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : Eric Boucher, Patrice Chéreau, Daniel Auteuil, Carole Bouquet,
Directors : Claude Berri,

A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband, and the ...

Actors : Rosie O'Donnell, Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Demi Moore,
Directors : Lesli Linka Glatter,

Four 12-year-old girls grow up together during an eventful small-town summer in 1970.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Ian Hart, Molly Parker,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; ...

Actors : Asia Argento, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rupert Everett, Jared Harris,
Directors : Michael Radford,

A young woman attempts to end her criminal career. But she needs love to make it.

Actors : Brian Van Holt, Jonathan Abrahams, Zorie Barber, Amanda Peet,
Directors : Peter M. Cohen,

Three egotistical swingers, who think they're God's gift to women, end up having their friendships tested when all three of them pick up and start dating the same woman.

Actors : Stan Kaplan, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Bowman, Dick Russell,
Directors : Kelly Reichardt,

Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.