Best Female Lead movies of 1997

Actors : Lars Simonsen, Helene Egelund, Trond Høvik, Anneke von der Lippe,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the ...

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Francine Bergé, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

The slightly kleptomanic 29-year-old Mathilde is experiencing strange swoonings since a few days. There she encounters a mysterious doctor who treats her with hypnosis therapy. As she gets ...

Actors : Aldo Sambrell, Alain Petit, Monique Parent, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A stripper and her sleazy boyfriend are invited by a wealthy woman and her lover to join them on her private island for a weekend of sex games in exchange for a large fee. When the couple ...

Actors : Frédéric Malgras, Nicolas Welbers, Amira Casar, Vahina Giocante,
Directors : Manuel Pradal,

A random montage of disturbing images tell a story about one summer in the lives of two teenagers who somehow find love within each other, Orso and Marie. After they realize this, they run ...

Actors : Michael Beach, Mark Harmon, Jon Gries, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Alex Graves,

A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. She discovers that she may have found the solution in, of all places, her cooking...

Actors : Natalie Perrey, Isabelle Teboul, Bernard Charnacé, Alexandra Pic,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

Actors : Emily Booth, Sexton Ming, Ron Drand, Shend,

This is the story of the beautiful young Pervirella. Set in the mythical English land of Condon, the grotesque, power-mad Queen Victoria builds a wall around the country and establishes a "...

Actors : Jesús Albornoz, Marcio Almeida, Jorge Abalo, Emilia Mazer,
Directors : Aníbal Di Salvo,

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Loretta Devine, Tara Subkoff, Sandra Bernhard,

Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene's neighbor Marci takes pity on Jake, allowing her to stay ...

Actors : Tina Carlson, Ramses Del Hierro Ericstam, Charlotte Ståhlberg, Fredrik Beckman,
Directors : Ella Lemhagen,

While her parents are absent, Isabell has invited a few of her closest, best-behaving friends to celebrate New Year's Eve in her house. However, the good spirit turns sour when some older ...

Actors : Judy Thompson, Kim Yates, Jack Becker, John Logan,
Directors : Rick Blaine,

Michael and Janie are a pair of young grad students living together on a quiet college campus. One day, Janie discovers that Michael has been cheating on her. She walks out on him, only to ...

Actors : Margot Kidder, Shaun Johnston, Lorraine Bracco, Rick Ash,
Directors : Paul Ziller,

A woman has a miscarriage. After her grief becomes bearable, she attempts to adopt a baby, but discovers evidence that her baby might not have been dead when it was removed from her stomach. If so, who took the baby, why and where?

Actors : Jason Bortz, Bob Neuwirth, Marisa Ryan, Molly Gross,
Directors : Kristine Peterson,

Seattle: The grunge girl band "No Exits" is just about to get a record deal. At this time Jimmy is appearing again, the former boy-friend of the band guitarist Shelly. She had left him ...

Actors : Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Romane Bohringer, Élodie Bouchez, Melvil Poupaud,
Directors : Graham Guit,

Lenny arrives in Paris with a plan: to set up a small sting operation and then flee the scene as quickly and as far away as possible. Juliette can no longer bear Joel, her boss and lover, ...

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Teri Garr, Taylor Negron, Moira Kelly,
Directors : Lynn Roth,

An artist (Moira Kelly) decides to put her troubles with men and evictions behind her by moving to a convent, so she can work for her keep. Is her art an opportunity for the sisters to save the convent from closure?

Actors : Hung On Cheung, Monica Chan, Wing-Fai Chan, Farini Cheung,
Directors : Dante Lam,

With the retreat of the British government from Hong Kong, the S.B. Team, an elite secret police force, is also on its way out. However, this team of highly trained cops have one final ...

Actors : Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Udo Kier, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Christoph Schlingensief,

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Actors : Clotilde Courau, Thérèse Liotard, Guillaume Depardieu, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : Jean-Loup Hubert,

(Translated from TV5 description) A soldier wounded during WWI falls in love with a young school teacher.

Actors : James McCaffrey, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, LisaGay Hamilton, John Dossett,
Directors : Richard Mauro,

N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make ...

Actors : Stephen Nichols, Cynthia Rothrock, Alex Hyde-White, Patrick Wayne,
Directors : Nicholas Celozzi,

FBI agent, expert in martial arts, become the main target for a gangster, after she kills one of his closest employees.