Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, George Carlin, Patrick Warburton,

An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.

Actors : Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt, Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht,
Directors : Dominic Sena,

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.

Actors : Jessica Paré, Victoria Snow, Jessica Mackenzie, Macha Grenon,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.

Actors : Tiffany Shepis, Luciano Szafir, Aaron Sherry, Blythe Metz,
Directors : Rolfe Kanefsky,

After receiving an African fertility mask as a gift Ellen tells her husband William that she's been attacked by masked phantom called 'the Nightmare Man'. As Ellen's paranoia increases, ...

Actors : Isaïe Sultan, Raphaël Bouvet, Béatrice Dalle, Alain Libolt,
Directors : Patric Chiha,

A drama centered on the relationship between a teenager, Pierre, and Nadia, a woman in her thirties.

Actors : Elisabeth Harnois, Jesse McCartney, Margo Harshman, Ignacio Serricchio,
Directors : Todd Kessler,

Natalie has it all: yearbook editor, scholarship to college, star athlete, reigning social queen. Then Keith enters her life. Secretive and enigmatic, he slowly lures her from her comfort ...

Actors : Tony Goldwyn, Scarlett Johansson, Nastassja Kinski, Raffaella Bánsági,
Directors : Éva Gárdos,

A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

Actors : Richard Clarkin, Shannon Beckner, Tracy Wright, Jenni Burke,
Directors : Daniel Cockburn,

A fantasy about a reclusive woman who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her, turning her home into an archive. As realities collapse and intersect ...

Actors : Zoë Poledouris, Kinnie Starr, Melody Moore, Nicole Barrett,
Directors : Kurt Voss,

The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.

Actors : Chiara Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Raphaëlle Molinier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Delphine Gleize,

After a bull dies in an arena, its remains are transported throughout Belgium, France, and Spain, where various characters cross its path.

Actors : Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Takako Matsu, Yukito Nishii,
Directors : Tetsuya Nakashima,

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.

Actors : Assumpta Serna, César Sarachu, Gottfried John, Amira Casar,

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Actors : Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Harriet Lenabe, Lerato Mvelase,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.

Actors : Karolina Muller, Élodie Bouchez, José María de Tavira, Karim Saleh,
Directors : Zeina Durra,

Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.

Actors : Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets, Vera Farmiga, Jill Hennessy,
Directors : Peter Mattei,

New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.

Actors : Pablo Pineda, Isabel García Lorca, Antonio Naharro, Lola Dueñas,

Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the ...

Actors : Savannah Stehlin, Robert Bradvica, Kevin Chung, Rodney Eastman,
Directors : J.B. Ghuman Jr.,

A colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy.A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When a...

Actors : Haibin Li, Yijing Zhang, Zhongyang Qi, Yu Xia,
Directors : Jiang Xiao,

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in...

Actors : Zweilungile Sidloyi, Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou,
Directors : Mark Dornford-May,

A version of Georges Bizet's Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yurskiy, Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, Artyom Smola,
Directors : Andrey Khrzhanovskiy,

A semi-fictional account of the life of Nobel-Prize-winning Russian poet Josif Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.