Best Female Lead movies of 1998

Actors : Eric Thal, Isaiah Washington, Diego Serrano, Karyn Parsons,
Directors : Alison Swan,

Nia is a successful copy writer at ad agency, and she leads white yuppie life (though her mother is black). She quits the agency when she is ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ...

Actors : Reiko Takashima, Kippei Shîna, Riona Hazuki, Jinpachi Nezu,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the ...

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Laure Marsac, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Sandrine Bonnaire,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.

Actors : Juliette Lewis, Marissa Ribisi, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Rory Kelly,

Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles.

Actors : Meera Syal, Brenda Blethyn, Sue Cleaver, Julie Walters,
Directors : Nick Hurran,

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn ...

Actors : Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Bonneton, Mathieu Demy, Virginie Ledoyen,

Jeanne has an appetite for love that can never be satisfied. Lovers at every corner of her life she is still in search of that "one". When a impromptu tryst on the subway with Olivier gives...

Actors : Rachel Hunter, Tito Larriva, Alison Eastwood, Lauren Hutton,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

A strictly monogamous man stops to help a stranded female with a broken down car. In gratitude she offers oral sex, when he reluctantly accepts. However, just as they get involved, the cops...

Actors : Tomas Villum Jensen, Mette Louise Holland, Svend Johansen, Maria Stokholm,
Directors : Shaky González,

Rebecca has inherited her grandmother's Gothic mansion and brings both her best friend an her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts they discover an old dusty book, which ...

Actors : Anna Levine, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

Despite the fact that Fiona has lived apart from her mother, they lead parallel lives as bi-sexual prostitutes. The meeting of the two women spells tragedy for the mother and hope for the daughter.

Actors : Miroslav Donutil, Tomás Hanák, Milan Lasica, Zuzana Stivínová,
Directors : Vera Chytilová,

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and remove their testicles.

Actors : Judith Henry, Emma de Caunes, Hubert Koundé, Estelle Larrivaz,
Directors : Jean-Paul Salomé,

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Samantha Mathis, Kimberly Scott, Barbara Pilavin,
Directors : Joe Gayton,

Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.

Actors : Giulia Fleury, Madelief Verelst, Rijk de Gooyer, Peter Blok,
Directors : Ineke Houtman,

When Madelief's grandmother dies, her mother takes her to the funeral. She then visits her grandfather, but quickly gets bored, until Mischa tells her how much fun a rural summer can be. ...

Actors : Larry Drake, Julie Delpy, Pamela Gidley, Georgina Cates,
Directors : Jonathan Gems,

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

Actors : Rick Engelkes, Reidar Sørensen, Francesca Vanthielen, Joachim Król,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

A young woman spends an adventurous winter with a trapper on Spitsbergen.

Actors : Fabián Vena, Ángela Molina, Vera Fogwill, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Alejandro Agresti,

Actors : Eriko Imai, Hitoe Arakaki, Hiroko Shimabukuro, Takako Uehara,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

After her sudden death a teenage girl finds her father has uploaded her mind to computer form. With a rival corporation wishing to capture her the girl is uploaded to her boyfriend's laptop.

Actors : Emma Suárez, Flavio Caballero, César Mora, Nicolás Montero,
Directors : Sergio Cabrera,

An oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that have been named New Texas so it becomes the target of the guerrillas holding constant clashes ...

Actors : Mariette Carey, Miranda Otto, Alicia Banit, Tess Mornana,
Directors : John Ruane,

Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "...

Actors : Alexandre Pinto, Alexandra Lencastre, Ana Moreira, Nelson Varela,
Directors : Teresa Villaverde,

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.