Best Female Lead movies of 2009

Actors : Martin Henderson, Bren Foster, Ian Roberts, Rachael Taylor,
Directors : Serhat Caradee,

A journey into the lives of young Middle Eastern men from Sydney's outer west with dreams and desires to better themselves and fit in

Actors : Michael Maxwell, David Gant, Natassia Malthe, Sam Page,
Directors : Darryn Welch,

Fiancés Georgie and David head to Spain to get a wedding blessing from David's father, who has lived a criminal life. On a debauched night out, the couple are separated for only a few ...

Actors : Irina Butanaeva, Yuriy Chursin, Aleksey Filimonov, Ivan Dobronravov,

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are ...

Actors : Wei Yi Bo, Geoffrey Hutchings, Chris Ryman, Lu Huang,
Directors : Xiaolu Guo,

This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads...

Actors : Maxim Mehmet, Anna Fischer, Thomas Thieme, Felicitas Woll,
Directors : Peter Timm,

Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes...

Actors : Kerry Beyer, Julin, Brandon Smith, Megan Moser,
Directors : Kerry Beyer,

When a street smart "goth girl" (Roxy Vandiver) is forced to attend cheerleader camp as part of her rehabilitation from a juvenile correction facility, she clashes with the "popular girls,"...

Actors : Anne Marivin, Vincent Perez, Gabriella Wright, Jérémie Renier,
Directors : Denis Dercourt,

Turn from playing the piano to playing with swords, and you will get blood on your hands.

Actors : Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen, Bart Voitila, Michael King,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by ...

Actors : Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Kumiko Asô, Ryo Kase,
Directors : Satoshi Miki,

A quirky young woman who loves antiques embarks on risky adventures and business endeavors with her eccentric friends, trying to score a unique item that will finally be worth a huge profit...

Actors : Ane Viola Semb, Johan Tinus Lindgren, Finn Schau, Sigve Bøe,

Princess Fjellrose has never been outside the safe mountain, until her father is sick and dying. Only humans down in the valley can save him. She goes on a dangerous journey, and put their world in danger, in spite of her good intentions.

Actors : Fred Ward, Danielle Chuchran, Miranda Cosgrove, Connie Sellecca,
Directors : Craig Clyde,

A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.

Actors : Bita Baadraan, Shahab Hosseini, Shaghayegh Farahani, Gohar Kheirandish,
Directors : Ali Rooyintan,

Heartbroken is the story of love between two youngsters who have two different perspectives and are from two different families.

Actors : Pablo Derqui, Eliza Triana, Jordi Dauder, Joaquín Climent,
Directors : Hilda Hidalgo,

Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a ...

Actors : Elizabeth Holmes, Steven Nieport, Carolyn Hauck, Suthi Picotte,
Directors : John Michael Elfers,

A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of the oldest son. Though labeled a suicide, the bizarre circumstances lead the mother, Helen, to believe there are ...

Actors : Pam Ferris, Ben Miller, Ian Hart, Emily Watson,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

Actors : Honey Shain, Stephanie Leon, Julie Grundtvig Wester, Malou Reymann,
Directors : Hella Joof,

Four dysfunctional teenage girls steal a car and elope from the institution where they live. They go on a road trip across Denmark, confronting ghosts of the past and settling old accounts as their dark secrets are revealed.

Actors : Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands, Michel Duchaussoy, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Julie Lopes-Curval,

Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who gave up her family, ...

Actors : Marieta Severo, Nanda Costa, Amanda Diniz, Kika Farias,
Directors : Sandra Werneck,

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and ...

Actors : Karent Hinestroza, Arnobio Salazar Rivas, Rodrigo Vélez,
Directors : Oscar Ruiz Navia,

A drama set in the black communities of Colombia's Pacific coast, where a man looking to flee the country by boat encounters a local fisherman.