Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu, Alexandru Potocean,
Directors : Cristian Mungiu,

A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.

Actors : Whitney Able, Michael Welch, Anson Mount, Amber Heard,
Directors : Jonathan Levine,

A group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane, an innocent, desirable girl, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop mysteriously.

Actors : Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Catherine O'Hara, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Robert Luketic,

A vacationing woman meets her ideal man, leading to a swift marriage. Back at home, however, their idyllic life is upset when they discover their neighbors could be assassins who have been contracted to kill the couple.

Actors : Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Amber Heard, Laura-Leigh Claire,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.

Actors : Betsy Russell, Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston,
Directors : Kevin Greutert,

Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by Jigsaw.

Actors : Cole Hauser, Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian,
Directors : Bruce Hunt,

Bloodthirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

Actors : Queen Latifah, Paula Patton, Common, James Pickens Jr.,
Directors : Sanaa Hamri,

A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.

Actors : Lisa Kudrow, Jesse Bradford, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Don Roos,

Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictablity of life itself.

Actors : Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Odette Annable,
Directors : Andy Fickman,

When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée's true colors.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Erika Christensen, Leonardo Nam,
Directors : Brian Robbins,

Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Patrick Wilson, Claire Danes,
Directors : Lajos Koltai,

A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets.

Actors : Shohreh Aghdashloo, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Hiam Abbass, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Catherine Hardwicke,

A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

Actors : Christina Applegate, Kelly Preston, Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.

Actors : John Howard, Stelios Yiakmis, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in ...

Actors : Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré, Dominique Zeïda,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Actors : Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Rachel Dratch, Alexis Georgoulis,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

A travel guide rediscovers her romantic side on a trip around Greece.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Arielle Kebbel, Edison Chen,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

Three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.

Actors : Lynette Curran, Damian de Montemas, Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington,
Directors : Cate Shortland,

A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.

Actors : José María Yazpik, Robin Tunney, John Corbett, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Guillermo Arriaga,

A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.

Actors : Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Simon West,

During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.