Best Female Lead movies of 2001

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Nastassja Kinski, Josh Holloway, Hudson Leick,
Directors : Dennis Dimster,

A woman discovers becoming attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this tense erotic thriller. Linda (Nastassia Kinski) is a woman whose life would seem ideal on the ...

Actors : Glória Pires, Andrea Beltrão, Lília Cabral, Paloma Duarte,
Directors : Daniel Filho,

After the death of their mother, four sisters gather to divide their inheritance, and bring back several family troubles.

Actors : Honey Lauren, Glyn Styler, Edge, Hans Lohl,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her ...

Actors : John Hensley, Joshua Harto, Charlie Day, Jamie-Lynn Sigler,

Two teens on their way to a backwoods party come across a beautiful young woman having car trouble. Their search for help only gets them lost, deep in the woods, where they meet Forest ...

Actors : Pimsiree Pimsee, Pramote Seangsorn, Dawan Singha-Wee, Kalyanut Sriboonrueng,

Three young women gathered in a coffee bar in Bangkok tell and discuss three original ghost stories with each other. The first tale: In Bangkok, the young Jieb receives an ancient drum not ...

Actors : Ko Shibasaki, Maho Nonami, Yoshiki Arizono, Grace Yip,
Directors : Norio Tsuruta,

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese ...

Actors : Sanna Hietala, Antti Ikkala, Jyri Ojansivu, Antti Mikkola,
Directors : Jarmo Lampela,

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck ...

Actors : Jennifer Esposito, Stephen Lang, William B. Davis, Nick Moran,
Directors : Richard Gale,

An undercover cop needs a female police officer to pretend to be his wife in order to get close to a ruthless crime boss. The boss's attraction to her entangles them in a complex and dangerous triangle.

Actors : Karen McDougal, Lisa Dergan, Olga Sutulova, Yuliya Chicherina,
Directors : Timur Bekmambetov,

In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - ...

Actors : Tetsu Sawaki, Seiichi Tanabe, Ryo Amamiya, Aoi Miyazaki,
Directors : Akihiko Shiota,

Following the divorce, the attempted suicide of her mother and the rumors underage sex with the teacher, a girl drops out the school in an attempt to find herself.

Actors : Jordy Benattar, William Baldwin, Hart Bochner, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

An unfulfilled married woman becomes intrigued by an alluring suitor whose attention soon becomes obsessive.

Actors : Lauri Nurkse, Tommi Mujunen, Elena Leeve, Tarja Heinula,
Directors : Simo Halinen,

C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle ...

Actors : Émilie Dequenne, Alix de Konopka, Cyrille Thouvenin, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Yves Lavandier,

Attracted but also frightened by her sexuality, a teenage girl undergoes a brief therapy with a warm, humorous and competent psychotherapist.

Actors : Zinedine Soualem, Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Candelier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Philippe Lioret,

Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.

Actors : Nathaniel Parker, Kirsten Dunst, Julie Walters, Geraldine James,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800's Russia.

Actors : Courtney Love, Mischa Barton, Noah Emmerich, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Bob Gosse,

A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.

Actors : Larry Drake, Judd Nelson, Paulina Porizkova, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Gregory Gieras,

A madman terrorizes a female psychologist when they are accidently locked up in an abandoned asylum.

Actors : Patsy Kensit, Amy Locane, Amy Huberman, Patrick Muldoon,
Directors : John Hough,

Mental Patient terrorizes her Psychiatrist who she believes is the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper.

Actors : Jennifer Esposito, Alyson Hannigan, Steve Harris, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Gigi Gaston,

Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.

Actors : Anass Behri, Fejria Deliba, Rabia Mokeddem, Amina Annabi,
Directors : Yamina Benguigui,

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the ...