Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Alan Arkin, Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker,
Directors : Chazz Palminteri,

Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle.

Actors : Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola, Jessica Alba, Rade Serbedzija,

A woman receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.

Actors : Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz,

Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

Actors : Wes Bentley, Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku,
Directors : Stephen Carpenter,

A co-ed is caught between the world of the living and the dead.

Actors : David Morse, Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher,
Directors : Rodrigo García,

A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.

Actors : Antonio Catania, Giuseppe Battiston, Bruno Ganz, Licia Maglietta,
Directors : Silvio Soldini,

After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen, Sara Paxton,
Directors : Craig Mazin,

Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.

Actors : Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor, Gretchen Mol,
Directors : Mary Harron,

The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.

Actors : August Zirner, Sergio Castellitto, Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste,
Directors : Sandra Nettelbeck,

When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.

Actors : Kimberly Elise, T.D. Jakes, Michael Boatman, Loretta Devine,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.

Actors : Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Cady Huffman, Zach Gilford,
Directors : Adam Salky,

A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.

Actors : Michael Cerveris, Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : John Krasinski,

A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Actors : Margherita Buy, Serra Yilmaz, Gabriel Garko, Stefano Accorsi,
Directors : Ferzan Ozpetek,

AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see ...

Actors : Queen Latifah, Djimon Hounsou, Andie MacDowell, Alicia Silverstone,
Directors : Bille Woodruff,

A determined hairstylist (Queen Latifah) competes with her former boss (Kevin Bacon) after opening her own business in Atlanta.

Actors : Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard,
Directors : Lucile Hadzihalilovic,

A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.

Actors : Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Chandler Canterbury,
Directors : Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,

After a car accident, a young woman who is caught between life and death, meets a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.

Actors : Karina Testa, Patrick Ligardes, Samuel Le Bihan, Aurélien Wiik,
Directors : Xavier Gens,

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Maya Banno, Takahiro Satô, Satomi Tezuka,
Directors : Katsuhito Ishii,

A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.

Actors : Hamed Behdad, Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Babak Mirzakhani,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Actors : Jesper Christensen, Maria Heiskanen, Callin Öhrvall, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.