Best Female Lead movies of 2000

Actors : Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans,
Directors : Darren Aronofsky,

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Actors : Carrie-Anne Moss, Alfred Molina, Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Rory Culkin, Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo,
Directors : Kenneth Lonergan,

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.

Actors : David Morse, Peter Stormare, Catherine Deneuve, Björk,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.

Actors : Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Carmen Electra, Marlon Wayans,
Directors : Keenen Ivory Wayans,

A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.

Actors : Katharine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers, Emily Perkins, Kris Lemche,
Directors : John Fawcett,

Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.

Actors : Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Glenndon Chatman, Jess Willard,
Directors : Gina Prince-Bythewood,

In 1981 in L.A., Monica moves in next door to Quincy. They're 11, and both want to play in the NBA, just like Quincy's dad. Their love-hate relationship lasts into high school, with ...

Actors : Michelle Rodriguez, Santiago Douglas, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon,
Directors : Karyn Kusama,

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.

Actors : Martin Clunes, Brenda Blethyn, Tchéky Karyo, Craig Ferguson,
Directors : Nigel Cole,

A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.

Actors : Dominic West, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Perkins, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Betty Thomas,

A big-city newspaper columnist is forced to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center after ruining her sister's wedding and crashing a stolen limousine.

Actors : Benno Fürmann, Lars Rudolph, Franka Potente, Joachim Król,
Directors : Tom Tykwer,

Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life, seemingly entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes...

Actors : John Goodman, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Piper Perabo,
Directors : David McNally,

Aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons, comes out of her shell.

Actors : Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgård, Xander Berkeley,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Actors : Holland Taylor, Mick Weber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marisa Tomei,
Directors : Brad Anderson,

Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told ...

Actors : Murilo Benício, Harold Perrineau, Mark Feuerstein, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Fina Torres,

Brazilian chef Isabella Oliveira moves to San Francisco when her husband, frustrated by her motion sickness, cheats on her.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Christina Ricci, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke,
Directors : Sally Potter,

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.