Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport, David Birkin, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Christine Jeffs,

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

Actors : Chad Allen, Justin Long, Luke Wilson, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Aristomenis Tsirbas,

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Actors : Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : Claude Miller,

A group of cinematic spend a holiday in the French countryside. The film provides insight in their relationships, including that between a young man and a local girl, Lili. She uses the ...

Actors : Andy On, Ka Tung Lam, Kelly Lin, Ching Wan Lau,

A rookie cop teams up with a former detective with a supernatural gift to hunt down a serial killer.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Clotilde Mollet, Catherine Frot, Déborah François,
Directors : Denis Dercourt,

The girl Mélanie Prouvost is the beloved daughter of the butchers Mrs. Prouvost and Mr. Prouvost. She is an aspirant pianist and her parents make her application to the Conservatory. During...

Actors : Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Pongpas, Sa-gnad Chaiyapan,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.

Actors : Stefano Accorsi, Julie Depardieu, Nina Kervel-Bey, Benjamin Feuillet,
Directors : Julie Gavras,

A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.

Actors : Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine,
Directors : Nobuhiro Yamashita,

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

Actors : Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce, Stockard Channing, Bette Midler,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "Valley of the Dolls" and other trashy novels. ...

Actors : Linda Cardellini, Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden,
Directors : Aric Avelino,

Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.

Actors : Bárbara Mori, Manolo Cardona, Gaby Espino, Christian Meier,
Directors : Ricardo de Montreuil,

Unable to get intimate with her husband of 10 years, a woman embarks on a steamy affair with his brother.

Actors : Debbie Doebereiner, Omar Cowan, Dustin James Ashley, Phyllis Workman,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.

Actors : Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Inés Efron, María Onetto,
Directors : Lucrecia Martel,

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

Actors : Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Actors : Katia Zinbris, Ronit Elkabetz, Dana Ivgy, Meshar Cohen,
Directors : Keren Yedaya,

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel...

Actors : Joe Pesci, Helen Mirren, Gina Gershon, Sergio Peris-Mencheta,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A drama centered around a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jeanne Balibar, Maggie Cheung, Béatrice Dalle,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser...

Actors : Benno Fürmann, Franka Potente, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to ...

Actors : Cicely Tyson, Jeff Daniels, AnnaSophia Robb, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Actors : Anne Brochet, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.