Best Female Lead movies of 2001

Actors : Yazid Aït, Mar Sodupe, Virginie Ledoyen, Stomy Bugsy,
Directors : Jean-François Richet,

At twenty, all Maria wants to do is live life to the fullest. She lives with her benevolent, but aging parents. Other characters are: Linda, her best friend, the dredger Manu, Bouboule, her...

Actors : Laura Putney, Robert Merrill, Shirly Brener, Gulshan Grover,
Directors : Paul Wynne,

A pack of massive genetically altered Scorpions escape containment on an airplane, turning passengers into victims and forcing one ordinary woman to confront her worst fears.

Actors : Carmen Balagué, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Verónica Forqué, Candela Peña,
Directors : Joaquín Oristrell,

Actors : Sidse Babett Knudsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Klaus Bondam,
Directors : Jonas Elmer,

A Danish comedy about Mona, who suddenly has a lot to deal with after being taken hostage at a bank robbery, then chased by the love sick bank robber. The cocaine sniffing boss makes her days miserable until he ODs and she takes over.

Actors : Hélène Fillières, Karin Viard, Victor Lanoux, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Marion Vernoux,

Four people 's fate in one day .

Actors : Mercedes Sampietro, Juan Diego Botto, Lucía Jiménez, Álvaro de Luna,
Directors : Montxo Armendáriz,

Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco ...

Actors : Björn Kjellman, Amanda Ooms, Rikard Wolff, Björn Granath,
Directors : Jan Troell,

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.

Actors : Lola Marceli, Alice Ansara, Lourdes Bartolomé, Silvio Ofria,
Directors : Steve Jacobs,

Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Rati Agnihotri, Kajol,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Here is another Indian that also closely resembles another Hollywood movie. This story revolves around the lives of two look-alike sisters, who are brought up separately by their estranged ...

Actors : Isabel Richer, Sylvain Marcel, Catherine Trudeau, Jean-Nicolas Verreault,
Directors : Erik Canuel,

Actors : Manuel João Vieira, Miguel Borges, Nuno Melo, Lúcia Sigalho,
Directors : Edgar Pêra,

Actors : Christel Oomen, Dragan Bakema, Hans Hoes, Bert Luppes,
Directors : Michiel van Jaarsveld,

The movie depicts how a semi-homely 15-year-old teenage dame of the rather white trash sort manages to manipulate and destroy the lives of virtually every man she knows, including her extra loving big brother and best friend's father.

Actors : Jose Yenque, William Marquez, Miriam Colon, Lisa Vidal,
Directors : Jan Egleson,

Eager to become a businesswoman, an immigrant from Puerto Rico tries to adjust to life in the United States.

Actors : Manuel Morón, Imanol Arias, Marisa Paredes, Roger Casamajor,
Directors : Carlos Molinero,

Actors : Janet Wright, Sabrina Grdevich, Colm Feore, Joanna Going,
Directors : Carl Bessai,

The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.

Actors : Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôichirô Saitô, Hotaru, Rena Tanaka,
Directors : Jun Ichikawa,

Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Eriko (Rena Tanaka) has no definite plans, but is ...

Actors : Nicole Gläser, Monique Gläser, Jeanine Gläser, Christopher Schöps,
Directors : Valeska Grisebach,

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Katarzyna Bujakiewicz, Katarzyna Figura, Piotr Gasowski,
Directors : Piotr Weresniak,

Actors : Anna Dzenilalova, Eddie Eagle, Dalong Fu, Chie Maeda,
Directors : Xiaoning Feng,

A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.