Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Emmanuelle Devos, Colette Emmanuelle,
Directors : Frédéric Fonteyne,

Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her ...

Actors : Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont, Fabrice Deville,
Directors : Jean-Claude Brisseau,

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their ...

Actors : Omari Hardwick, Michole Briana White, Tracie Thoms, Salli Richardson-Whitfield,
Directors : Ava DuVernay,

Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Susana Sá, Pilar López de Ayala,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter.

Actors : Doona Bae, Yo-won Lee, Ji-young Ok, Eung-sil Lee,
Directors : Jae-eun Jeong,

In the port city of Icheon, five female friends struggle to stay close while forging a life for themselves after high school. When one of the group, upwardly-mobile Hae-ju, moves to Seoul, ...

Actors : Golab Adineh, Baran Kosari, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Ebrahim Sheibani,
Directors : Rakhshan Bani-Etemad,

Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats ...

Actors : Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts,
Directors : Paul Cox,

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with ...

Actors : Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Gregory Russell Cook,
Directors : Maggie Greenwald,

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Nathan Lane, Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

An eccentric, unconventional woman whose naive aspirations to rise from her job as a security guard to full-fledged private eye lead her into a tangled PL: mess.

Actors : Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Armando Hernández, Mónica Del Carmen, Diego Chas,
Directors : Michael Rowe,

Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo, and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.

Actors : Richard Winsor, Ukweli Roach, Nichola Burley, Frank Harper,

In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

Actors : Frances Fisher, Dermot Mulroney, Jessica Chastain, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Dan Ireland,

A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak. Based on E.L. Doctorow's story, "Jolene: A Life."

Actors : Lázaro Ramos, Alice Braga, Maria Menezes, Wagner Moura,
Directors : Sérgio Machado,

Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.

Actors : Tamela J. Mann, Tyler Perry, David Mann, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Tyler Perry,

A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.

Actors : Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Michael Dorman, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Christopher Smith,

The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.

Actors : Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu, Jacques Bouanich, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Philippe Muyl,

This is the story of a young girl named Elsa who was raised by a single mother (Isabelle) in the city. Isabelle and Elsa begin the film moving in next door to an elderly man who collects ...

Actors : Margherita Buy, Alice Teghil, Antonio Carnevale, Sergio Castellitto,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an...

Actors : Ian Holm, Summer Phoenix, Fabrice Desplechin, Akbar Kurtha,
Directors : Arnaud Desplechin,

A Jewish girl in nineteenth century London, dreams of becoming a stage actress.

Actors : Henny Trayles, Gabriel Goity, María Onetto, Arturo Goetz,
Directors : Natalia Smirnoff,

An older housewife discovers she has a knack for solving puzzles.

Actors : Elsebeth Steentoft, Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Frank Thiel,
Directors : Pernille Fischer Christensen,

A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.