Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber,
Directors : Marianna Palka,

A look at the relationship between a lonely introverted girl and a young video store clerk vying for her attention.

Actors : Jaroslava Adamová, Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan,
Directors : Ondrej Trojan,

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...

Actors : Diane Kruger, Natalie Dessay, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet,
Directors : Christian Carion,

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.

Actors : Michael Clarke Duncan, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Kristin Kreuk,
Directors : Andrzej Bartkowiak,

When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.

Actors : Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Raban,

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life...

Actors : Vincent Piazza, Amber Tamblyn, Tilda Swinton, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Hilary Brougher,

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

Actors : Chris Owen, Bill Pullman, Alison Pill, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Thomas Vinterberg,

A young boy in a nameless, timeless American town establishes a gang of youthful misfits united in their love of guns and their code of honor.

Actors : Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart, Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

Bruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Actors : Andie MacDowell, Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas,
Directors : Michael Goldbach,

A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.

Actors : Antoine Chappey, Nathalie Baye, Roschdy Zem, Jalil Lespert,
Directors : Xavier Beauvois,

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Actors : Daryl Hannah, Mary Steenburgen, Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : John Sayles,

Six American women who planned on travelling to South America to adopt babies are forced, by law, to live there.

Actors : Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Anne Fletcher,

A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.

Actors : Jennifer Morrison, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Matthew Davis,
Directors : John Ottman,

A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.

Actors : Ellen Page, Zie Souwand, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Ari Cohen,
Directors : Bruce McDonald,

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.

Actors : Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Danuta Stenka, Artur Zmijewski,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Actors : Frances Conroy, Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn,

A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

Actors : Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Sarah Peirse, Marton Csokas, Alistair Browning,
Directors : Christine Jeffs,

Whilst on a family vacation on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand, 13-year-old Janey begins to realize that her parents' marriage is on the rocks.

Actors : Karel Roden, Anastasia Hille, Valentin Goshev, Valentin Ganev,
Directors : Nacho Cerdà,

An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.

Actors : Jo Prestia, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Albert Dupontel,
Directors : Gaspar Noé,

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.

Actors : Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, Marie Féret, David Moreau,
Directors : René Féret,

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.