Best Female Lead movies of 1997

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson, Bernard Giraudeau, Patrick Timsit,
Directors : Véra Belmont,

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Jeremy Piven, Wallace Shawn, Sherilyn Fenn,
Directors : Andrew Gallerani,

A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.

Actors : Katja Riemann, Richy Müller, Isabella Parkinson, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Rainer Kaufmann,

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she ...

Actors : Jack Kao, Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. ...

Actors : Ursula Andress, Joanne Rha, Susan Rha, Matthew Barney,
Directors : Matthew Barney,

Actors : Tony Haygarth, Cal MacAninch, Rufus Sewell, Emily Woof,
Directors : Phil Agland,

The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she ...

Actors : Alexandra Dahlström, Tove Edfeldt, Anna Gabrielsson, Emelina Lindberg-Filippoupoullou,
Directors : Christina Olofson,

Summer holiday is over. Nora begins sixth grade and is drawn to intrigues and doesn't really know what side she's on. Or wants to be on. On one hand she feels sorry for the bullied Karin, ...

Actors : Andrzej Seweryn, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ...

Actors : Salvator Xuereb, Brian Taylor, Dan Gunther, Rose McGowan,
Directors : Rod McCall,

Two escaped convicts join forces with a seductive femme on the trail of a long-forgotten gold mine.

Actors : Yiota Festa, Stelios Mainas, Katharina Zapatka, Gerasimos Skiadaressis,
Directors : Sotiris Goritsas,

Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.

Actors : Sayaka Yamaguchi, Hikari Mitsushima, Megumi Kobayashi, Aki Hano,
Directors : Kunio Miyoshi,

Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.

Actors : Bobcat Goldthwait, Janeane Garofalo, Margaret Cho, Mitch Rouse,
Directors : Aleks Horvat,

Arliss goes to a coffee house to meet Jasmine on a blind date, but she's not quite what she seems.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Victoria Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Glynis Barber,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.

Actors : Sophie Niedergang, Nathalie Conio, Isabelle Carré, Philippe Harel,
Directors : Philippe Harel,

This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of Isabelle Carré's face. She is capable of changing her facial ...

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Stina Ekblad, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Ellen Hillingsø,
Directors : Susanne Bier,

Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her...

Actors : Michael Vartan, Kari Wuhrer, Peter Facinelli, Amanda Peet,
Directors : H. Gordon Boos,

Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, ...

Actors : Nikolay Fomenko, Elena Shevchenko, Valentin Gaft, Lev Durov,
Directors : Vladimir Mashkov,

A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who could suppose that three "...

Actors : Alethea McGrath, Chloe Ferguson, Ullie Birve, Syd Brisbane,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent ...

Actors : Omar Fanucci, Gabriela Salas, Mabel Dai, Gustavo Domínguez,
Directors : Víctor González,

A portrait of a couple, living in poverty and prostitution. Couple is joined by a second woman, and problems escalates.

Actors : Mädchen Amick, Graham Greene, Adrian Pasdar, Robert Costanzo,
Directors : Richard Martin,

The forest rangers Julie Clayton and her boyfriend Don Powell find several grizzly-bear slaughtered in the forest. They report to their superior and he comes with the FBI Agent Eric Ashton ...