Best Female Lead movies of 1997

Actors : Pepón Nieto, Silvia Abascal, Antonio Resines, Verónica Forqué,
Directors : Manuel Iborra,

It's summer 1970, and the hippie movement has taken over an entire generation. In a beach house, a very unique family begins their summer vacation, which will change everyone's lives: ...

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 : 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 : Toni Collette, Malcolm Kennard, Dominic West, Victoria Eagger,
Directors : David Parker,

Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes ...

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 : Paul Kersey, Bing Shao, Zhen Ying, Jing Ning,
Directors : Xiaoning Feng,

At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ...

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 : Anna Geislerová, Kristýna Nováková, Milan Lasica, Ondrej Pavelka,
Directors : Petr Koliha,

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 : 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 : 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 : Fay Atsawet, Ray MacDonald, Phaibunkiat Khiaogao, Champagne X,
Directors : Pen-Ek Ratanaruang,

A young working woman has to follow obscure advice by an old sage in order to prevent a worst-case scenario. A returning nightmare of a family home built by her deceased mother for the ...

Actors : Eva Herzig, Maria Schrader, Georges Kern, Andreas Lust,
Directors : Robert Dornhelm,

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish. That causes chaos and hatred in the village.

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 : Michael Yarmush, Martine Badgley, Elisha Cuthbert, Natalie Vansier,
Directors : Kit Hood,

Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has before. ...

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

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 : 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 : 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.