Best Female Lead movies of 1997

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 : 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 : Frantisek Kovár, Emília Vásáryová, Dorota Nvotová, Marián Labuda,
Directors : Martin Sulík,

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy ...

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 : Hung On Cheung, Wing-Fai Chan, Monica 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Toni Collette, Helen McCrory, John Hannah, Jason Flemyng,
Directors : Mike Barker,

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

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 : Aimee Copp, Mikey Russo, Michael De Stefano, Brenda Monte,
Directors : Nicholas Barker,

A black comedy about vanity and lust in contemporary America. In the middle of the sexual jungle of New York's singles' world, two men and two women try to achieve their dreams.

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.

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 : Rekha, Anwesha Bhattacharya, Dinesh Thakur, Om Puri,
Directors : Basu Bhattacharya,

Mansi and Amar have been married for years, and have a daughter by this marriage. Amar is employed full-time, while Mansi looks after the household chores and their daughter. Amar earns a ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Keene Curtis, David Byrd, Helena Carroll,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

A story of Mother Teresa, beginning in Calcutta, India, where she faces adversity from every direction and where she lays the foundation for her crusade to help the poorest of the poor.

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 : 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 : Marie-Christine Barrault, Georges Corraface, Agnès Soral, Julie Delarme,
Directors : Charlotte Silvera,

Sabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague. The story of their relationship and the gradual ...

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 ...