Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

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 : 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 : Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, 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...

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 : Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke, Christina Ricci,
Directors : Sally Potter,

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Actors : Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, Topher Grace,
Directors : Dylan Kidd,

An unfulfilled divorced woman gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who appears to be her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

Actors : Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi,
Directors : Giuseppe Capotondi,

A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.

Actors : Keira Knightley, Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong, Sienna Miller,
Directors : John Maybury,

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Sharon Maguire,

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Ariane Labed, Yorgos Lanthimos,
Directors : Athina Rachel Tsangari,

Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.

Actors : Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell,
Directors : Sandra Goldbacher,

Two best friends grow up on the Isle of Wight and in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s.

Actors : Chris O'Donnell, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Bette Midler,
Directors : Brad Peyton,

The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

Actors : Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Zooey Deschanel, Charlie Hunnam,
Directors : Stephen Gaghan,

A senior at an elite college, already under severe pressure to complete her thesis and land a prestigious job, must confront the sudden reappearance of her old boyfriend, after his two-year...

Actors : Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck, Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Michel Leclerc,

A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.

Actors : Hank Harris, Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain,

A sorority girl finds her life falling apart after she develops romantic feelings for a mentally-challenged man.

Actors : Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a journey across the Outback.

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.