Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

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 : 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 : Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Actors : Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jamie Babbit,

Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.

Actors : Rutina Wesley, Tre Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Boyd Banks,
Directors : Ian Iqbal Rashid,

Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.

Actors : Valentina de Angelis, Amy Brenneman, Sam Elliott, Joan Allen,
Directors : Campbell Scott,

An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Fernanda Montenegro, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Andrucha Waddington,

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Actors : Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Djimon Hounsou,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.