Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Patrick Heusinger, Lois Smith, Stephen Pelinski, Elizabeth Reaser,
Directors : Ali Selim,

In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.

Actors : Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Amerie,
Directors : Forest Whitaker,

The first daughter of the U.S. President heads off to college where she falls for a graduate student with a secret agenda.

Actors : Natacha Lindinger, Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Elena Morozova,
Directors : Jan Kounen,

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The ...

Actors : Murilo Benício, Harold Perrineau, Mark Feuerstein, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Fina Torres,

Brazilian chef Isabella Oliveira moves to San Francisco when her husband, frustrated by her motion sickness, cheats on her.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Bruno Campos,

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Actors : Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Audrey Tautou,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Carol Burnett,
Directors : Vicky Jenson,

Ryden Malby graduates from college and is forced to move back into her childhood home with her eccentric family, while she attempts to find a job, the right guy, and just a hint of where her life is headed.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Audrey Tautou, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Actors : Allison Janney, Mandy Moore, Dylan Baker, Trent Ford,
Directors : Clare Kilner,

A teenager (Moore), disillusioned by too many examples of love gone wrong, refuses to believe that true love exists. Then this new guy (Ford) comes along...

Actors : Scout Taylor-Compton, Jane Lynch, Alexa PenaVega, Mika Boorem,
Directors : Joe Nussbaum,

Four best friends, desperate to improve their social status, enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.

Actors : Belén Rueda, Mabel Rivera, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep,
Directors : J.A. Bayona,

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

Actors : Christina Milian, Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Rick Gonzalez,
Directors : Jim Sonzero,

When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.

Actors : Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Chandler Williams, Glenn Close,
Directors : Chris Terrio,

Spanning twenty-four hours, Heights follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

Actors : Julianne Moore, Trevor Morgan, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern,
Directors : Jane Anderson,

In order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters a commercial jingle-writing contest.

Actors : Ron Livingston, David Wagner, James Woods, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Marcos Siega,

A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

Actors : Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya,
Directors : Nina Paley,

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.

Actors : Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Warren Jacquin, Adèle Haenel,
Directors : Céline Sciamma,

Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance.

Actors : Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Mark Woodbury, Michael Kaycheck,
Directors : Daniel Minahan,

A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.

Actors : Charles Berling, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny, Connie Nielsen,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson, Mélanie Thierry,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella...