Best Female Lead movies of 1997

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 : Allan Svensson, Gabriel Odenhammar, Suzanne Reuter, Chelsie Bell Dickson,
Directors : Björn Gunnarsson,

Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of ...

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 : Richy Müller, Katja Riemann, 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 : Bobcat Goldthwait, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Ursula Andress, Joanne Rha, Susan Rha, Matthew Barney,
Directors : Matthew Barney,

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Boris Terral, Patrick Chesnais, Nils Tavernier, Brigitte Roüan,
Directors : Brigitte Roüan,

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

Actors : Anne Céline Auche, Juliette Gautier, Marc Montserrat, Jessica Andrieu,
Directors : José Luis Guerín,

A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.

Actors : Aramis Trindade, Duda Mamberti, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Chico Díaz,

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.

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 : 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 ...

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 "...