Best Female Lead movies of 2005

Actors : Priscilla Barnes, Carrie Armstrong, Conrad Bachmann, April Barnett,
Directors : Ken Tipton,

Videocassette tape rental store owners fight against a religious fanatic group for the right to keep their controversial film on the shelves for sale.

Actors : Nadia Townsend, Bernard Curry, Terence Donovan, Susan Ellis,
Directors : Kieran Galvin,

Attempting suicide, sultry but down-on-her-luck swindler Liz is rescued by lonely tow truck driver Aiden. But instead of rushing her to the hospital, Liz's savior abducts her to his remote ...

Actors : Jenna Mattison, Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, Sean Maguire, Armand Assante,
Directors : Shelley Jensen,

Bookshop clerk Maggie (Mattison) is granted three wishes after she finds a first-edition copy of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.

Actors : Juana Acosta, Daniel Guzmán, Natalia Verbeke, María Vázquez,
Directors : Juan Vicente Córdoba,

The story unfolds around five friends, Juanita, Nitzia, María, Vicky and Mena, who are under the age of 25. They are dissatisfied with the inequality and injustice that exists in the world....

Actors : Brigitta Dau, Stacy Keach, Erika Eleniak, Kim Coates,
Directors : Gavin Wilding,

A federal agent, Kate Parker arrives in a small rural town to extradite Claire Scott, a young woman suspected of murdering a government scientist. Kate is prevented from delivering her ...

Actors : Rinako Hirasawa, Minami Aiyama, Akino Hirasawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka,
Directors : Yûji Tajiri,

Near Kawahara, a young man on a bus connives to meet a single mother by knocking over her son's box of crickets. He's Hiroshi, she's Haruka, the boy is Yuichiro. Hiroshi pursues Haruka, and...

Actors : Musetta Vander, Jere Burns, Sally Kirkland, Susan Priver,
Directors : Anthony Caldarella,

Scarlet is a single, workaholic Los Angeles matchmaker with no love life. Scarlet's mother is constantly trying to fix her up, to Scarlet's chagrin. Everything changes when homeless actress Sabrina crashes into her car, and into her life.

Actors : Cristian Stelluti, Antonella Salvucci, Valerio Tambone, Sara Sartini,
Directors : Aurelio Grimaldi,

The clever and passionate Madame De Saint-Ange has taken into consideration the education of the young and illiterate Eugenie and at the same time wants to seduce Marquis Dolmance, a famous...

Actors : Petar Bozovic, Isidora Minic, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Goran Susljik,
Directors : Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic,

'Balkan Brothers' is the story of the multinational and ethnically conflicted assembly of apatrides from war torn ex-Yugoslavia, hired by a crippled war merchant to sew labels upon fake ...

Actors : Jessica Bohl, Richard Brundage, Keith Herron, Eric Deskin,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

A dark drama which takes a looks at how far its characters will go to relieve loneliness, even if only for an hour.

Actors : Scott Cohen, Henry Czerny, David Proval, Angela Bettis,
Directors : Yuri Zeltser,

A frantic young woman begs a stranger to help save her marked husband, not realizing that the stranger is the hit man hired to kill him. Experimental digital movie shot entirely in one take and in real time.

Actors : Marina Anna Eich, Christoph Baumann, Mira Gittner, Michael Burkhardt,
Directors : Roland Reber,

A woman wants to know more about sexuality, especially about Femdom, Feminisation, Exhibitionism, the way to find your identity

Actors : Laura Aris Alvarez, David Eugene Edwards, Elena Fokina, Jozef Frucek,
Directors : Wim Vandekeybus,

Blush is a cinematographic adaptation of the performance of the same name, from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus.

Actors : Mathieu Simonet, Miou-Miou, Elie Semoun, Vahina Giocante,
Directors : Anne Villacèque,

Beautiful and young, Stella is a popular go-go dancer living alone with her mother by the French Riviera. Their lives unravel when a middle-age man becomes obsessed with Stella.

Actors : Maiko Asano, Makoto Ashikawa, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Seiko Iwaidô,
Directors : Yoshihiro Nakamura,

Shogo (Ryuta Sato), the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily broadcast out of Studio 6, a creepy and dilapidated booth abandoned since its last ...

Actors : Sarah Kozer, Jesse Wells Martin, Kira Madallo Sesay, Tracia Daye,
Directors : Chris W. Hill,

When her sister is killed by a band of outlaws, Mei Ling must gather an all-new group of sexy, female gunslingers to avenge the death of one of their own. As the tension hits a fever pitch,...

Actors : Satish Shah, Rekha, Paresh Rawal, Mallika Sherawat,
Directors : Govind Menon,

Rukmini is well into her early 40s and is still unmarried. She decides to let her orphaned niece, Padmini, live with her, and together they device a scheme to entrap wealthy men, relieve ...

Actors : Jack Dee, Emma de Caunes, Rade Serbedzija, Cosma Shiva Hagen,
Directors : Anthony Byrne,

A little bit of life, love, and wisdom come together over one night in the culinary underbelly, where life is a buffet, and everything is "Short Order".

Actors : Amber Aga, Nick Atkinson, Tamara Barnett-Herrin, Amanda Boxer,
Directors : Josh Appignanesi,

Devoutly religious Ruth returns from Israel to care for her dying mother, but when she tries to bring her estranged brother David back into the fold, in accordance with her mother's wishes,...

Actors : Mohammed Chaara, Tamara Louw, Dragan Bakema, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Colette Bothof,

Two passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings..