Best Female Lead movies of 1990s

Actors : Burt Reynolds, Demi Moore, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.

Actors : Kurtwood Smith, Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Alexander Payne,

An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Melanie Lynskey,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Actors : Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Skerritt, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A mentally challenged young woman seeks independence by obtaining her own apartment and attending college while her family plans her sister's wedding.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter,
Directors : Jon Amiel,

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Actors : Chen Chang, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Gregory Dayton, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a...

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart,
Directors : François Ozon,

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Actors : Liam Aiken, Vincent Perez, Garrett Strommen, Kim Basinger,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn't know well, and she moves to Kenya with...

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Demetre Georgalas, Vanessa Paradis, Frédéric Pfluger,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor,...

Actors : Famke Janssen, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Jon Favreau,
Directors : Valerie Breiman,

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. ...

Actors : Alicia Silverstone, Jack Thompson, Christopher Walken, Benicio Del Toro,
Directors : Marco Brambilla,

Emily has always been the rich brat who tries to pull every imaginable stunt to get attention. But one day, as she fakes her own kidnapping and locks herself in the trunk of a car, a thief ...

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

After her humiliated husband kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against a woman and her family.

Actors : Antonio Dechent, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, María Galiana, Ana Fernández,
Directors : Benito Zambrano,

Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in ...

Actors : Damian Jewan Lee, Donald Holden, Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski,
Directors : David Gordon Green,

A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.

Actors : Carme Elias, Rossy de Palma, Juan Echanove, Marisa Paredes,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Leo Macias writes sentimental novels with great success but hidden under a pseudonym, Amanda Gris. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in ...

Actors : Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?

Actors : Sheila Kelley, Campbell Scott, Bridget Fonda, Kyra Sedgwick,
Directors : Cameron Crowe,

A group of twenty-something friends, most of whom live in the same apartment complex, search for love and success in grunge-era Seattle.

Actors : Hitomi Satô, Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Actors : Dylan Baker, Patricia Clarkson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery,
Directors : Mark Tarlov,

A magical crab works wonders for a terrible chef's culinary skills, leading her towards the man of her dreams.