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 : 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 : Katja Riemann, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Katja von Garnier,

A young teenage werewolf (Bruckner) is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man (Dancy).

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 : Kristin Scott Thomas, Guillaume Marquet, Ludivine Sagnier, Patrick Mille,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman's innocence. But when the protégé's ideas become tempting enough for ...

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

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

Actors : Adèle Haenel, Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Warren Jacquin,
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 : 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 : 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 : Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong, Keira Knightley, 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 : 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 : 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 : Katie Holmes, Zooey Deschanel, Charlie Hunnam, Benjamin Bratt,
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 : Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Filippo Timi, Kseniya Rappoport,
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 : Michelle Williams, Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell, Anna Friel,
Directors : Sandra Goldbacher,

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

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 : Jack McBrayer, Chris O'Donnell, Bette Midler, James Marsden,
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 : Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.

Actors : Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Sarah Adler,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.