Best Female Lead movies of 2001

Actors : Lou Doillon, Caroline Ducey, Guillaume Saurrel, Camille Clavel,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

Actors : Debora Duboc, Claudio Jaborandy,
Directors : Toni Venturi,

Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São ...

Actors : Anna Dzenilalova, Eddie Eagle, Dalong Fu, Chie Maeda,
Directors : Xiaoning Feng,

A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.

Actors : Gabriela Canudas, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Álvaro Guerrero, Carlos Torrestorija,
Directors : Dana Rotberg,

Otilia is a sensual young girl with an ideal body whose face is marred by an enormous mole. As a result, Otilia grows up friendless, except for the companionship of Melquiades, a young man ...

Actors : Gigi Leung, Jiayan Chen, Jian Cui, Wu Jiang,
Directors : Zhong Yu,

Actors : Manuel João Vieira, Miguel Borges, Nuno Melo, Lúcia Sigalho,
Directors : Edgar Pêra,

Actors : Shawna Waldron, Dale Snowberger, David Reynolds, Andrea Gall,
Directors : Aaron Vanek,

A young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.

Actors : Janet Wright, Sabrina Grdevich, Colm Feore, Joanna Going,
Directors : Carl Bessai,

The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.

Actors : Kou Machida, Hiroaki Umano, Nobuhiro Suwa, Béatrice Dalle,
Directors : Nobuhiro Suwa,

Actors : Manuel Morón, Imanol Arias, Marisa Paredes, Roger Casamajor,
Directors : Carlos Molinero,

Actors : Tim Dutton, Guylaine St-Onge, Susan Haskell, Helen Baxendale,
Directors : Curt Truninger,

Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory ...

Actors : Christine Hakim, Dian Sastrowardoyo, Slamet Rahardjo, Didi Petet,
Directors : Nan Triveni Achnas,

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother...

Actors : Christel Oomen, Dragan Bakema, Hans Hoes, Bert Luppes,
Directors : Michiel van Jaarsveld,

The movie depicts how a semi-homely 15-year-old teenage dame of the rather white trash sort manages to manipulate and destroy the lives of virtually every man she knows, including her extra loving big brother and best friend's father.

Actors : Élise Guilbault, Michel Forget, Luc Picard, Fanny Mallette,
Directors : Bernard Émond,

Actors : Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôichirô Saitô, Hotaru, Rena Tanaka,
Directors : Jun Ichikawa,

Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Eriko (Rena Tanaka) has no definite plans, but is ...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Katarzyna Bujakiewicz, Katarzyna Figura, Piotr Gasowski,
Directors : Piotr Weresniak,

Actors : Nicole Gläser, Monique Gläser, Jeanine Gläser, Christopher Schöps,
Directors : Valeska Grisebach,

Actors : Jose Yenque, William Marquez, Miriam Colon, Lisa Vidal,
Directors : Jan Egleson,

Eager to become a businesswoman, an immigrant from Puerto Rico tries to adjust to life in the United States.

Actors : Julie Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Richard Hatch, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Douglas Jackson,

A feared Chinese Tong soldier goes undercover in America as an Asian Internet bride.