Best Female Lead movies of 2008

Actors : Greg Bryk, Joan Gregson, Walter Learning, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Melanie Orr,

A few months ago Hannah Sloan (Fairuza Balk) was in a horrible car accident, leaving her son Daniel in an extended coma. With hopes of putting their recent tragedy behind them Hannah and ...

Actors : Ahmad El-Fishawi, Basma, Rania Chahine, Mahmoud El-Bezzawy,
Directors : Amr Salama,

History literally repeats itself when May meets and falls in love with a passionate young actor, only months after the tragic death of her first fiancée. All the 'signs' suggest her new lover will meet the same fate.

Actors : Artur Smolyaninov, Mariya Shalayeva, Olga Sutulova, Mikhail Evlanov,
Directors : Igor Voloshin,

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight...

Actors : Siu-Wong Fan, Chun Wu, Ge Hu, Charlene Choi,
Directors : Jingle Ma,

Zhu Yanzhi (Charlene Choi), disguised as a man, seeks to learn martial arts with an elite clan. Once she begins her intense training, Zhu finds herself at odds with her trainer and superior, Liang (Chun Wu).

Actors : Ashley Bates, David McCarthy, Kevin Shea, Kerry McGann,
Directors : Colin Theys,

A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves.

Actors : Ibolya Oláh, Edit Balázsovits, Ildikó Bényi, András Kern,
Directors : Péter Tímár,

Actors : Patricia Place, Katherine Nelson, Nathan Mitchell, Stephanie Breinholt,

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final years in Nauvoo. Based on the life of Emma Hale Smith.

Actors : Janaina Suaudeau, Anne Dorval, Colm Feore, Clara Furey,
Directors : Guylaine Dionne,

This is a film about two women who struggle to endure lousy working conditions they face as strippers.

Actors : Jennifer Hall, Larisa Oleynik, Sara Jane Nash, Sarah Thompson,
Directors : Tony Hickman,

Sara is a photographer who is constantly being offered high paying commercial work, but is losing sight of her artistic nature that made her a success in the first place. Her best friend ...

Actors : Ferenc Hujber, Julia Ubrankovics, Attila Tóth, Gergely Kaszás,
Directors : Péter Bacsó,

The descent into hell of a young woman who is forced into prostitution by her boyfriend before being sent onto the streets by a pimp. (Hungarian with English subtitles)

Actors : Imogen Church, Bette Annette Kellow, Alan Ford, James Fisher,
Directors : Tim Biddiscombe,

A dark thriller twisted around a love story. A criminal has the dilemma of whether to risk her life to save her lover, who she's betrayed.

Actors : James Gracie, Anel Alexander, Shireen Hollier, Patrick Shai,
Directors : Joshua Rous,

Working girl Monique has always been able to give her clients exactly what they want. Thomas has always been exactly what everyone else has expected. Tonight he will demand the one thing of Monique that she's reluctant to offer: Honesty.

Actors : Linn Reusse, Jakob Knoblauch, Nora Quest, David Berton,
Directors : Peter Kahane,

Actors : Dan Brown, Marko Igonda, Jan Budar, Milena Minichová,
Directors : Huck Keppler,

Eva searches for the reason behind her sisters murder but finds that evil is already pursuing her.

Actors : Ha-neul Kim, Kye-Sang Yoon, Seong-rok Sin, Cha Hyeon-jeong,
Directors : Hyeon-jin Park,

A film about dating and relationships. It doesn't deal with the kind of head-over-heels, knight-in-shining-armor love that is usually tied to "romance." This is the love that bores, nags, ...

Actors : Maricielo Effio, Sergio Gjurinovic, Anahí de Cárdenas, Edgar Saba,
Directors : Josué Méndez,

Elisa--the soon-to-be-wife of a wealthy industrialist--is eager to shed her working-class background in favor of the opulence of her fiancé's elite lifestyle. To her dismay, she soon ...

Actors : Kelly Albanese, Susan Anton, Mare Costello, Michael Bergin,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

Beautiful, seductive rich girl Daphne gets her kicks playing mind games; finding and seducing young working-class men until she cruelly kicks them to the curb. But when she comes across ...

Actors : Vuokko Hovatta, Outi Alanen, Stig Hoffmeyer, Jarmo Koski,
Directors : Maria Lindberg,

A peaceful summer day in the Moomin Valley is interrupted by a volcanic eruption. At the last minute the Moomin family finds refuge in a strange house. It turns out it's not an ordinary ...

Actors : Karina Mora, Marlon Moreno,
Directors : Gustavo Nieto Roa,

A woman takes a man she just met at a nightclub to a hotel, so they can have a one-night stand, but things start to get complicated when he asks her to spend the night with him so they can ...

Actors : Manon Alving, Cheryl Ashruf, Ali Ben Horsting, Anneke Blok,
Directors : Paula van der Oest,

Bookkeeper Jacob newest client is the talented and flamboyant actress Anne. They first meet each other on her houseboat, the morning after the premiere of Anne's new theatrical play. Jacob ...