Best Female Lead movies of 1990s

Actors : Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau,
Directors : Denis Villeneuve,

After plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.

Actors : George Segal, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, Barbra Streisand,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Actors : Stan Kaplan, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Bowman, Dick Russell,
Directors : Kelly Reichardt,

Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.

Actors : James Loughran, Nuala O'Neill, Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : Roger Michell,

A Belfast housewife takes up the peace cause which causes her family trouble with IRA sympathizers.

Actors : Adrienne Barbeau, Bingo O'Malley, Ramy Zada, Harvey Keitel,

Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by two famous horror directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento. A greedy wife kills her husband, but not completely. A sleazy reporter adopts a strange black cat.

Actors : Louise Lasser, Robert Modica, Anna Levine, Jamie Harris,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. ...

Actors : Saskia Reeves, Kathy Jamieson, Amanda Plummer, Des McAleer,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the ...

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Gandolfini, Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Brian Gibson,

When Annie Laird is selected as a juror in a big Mafia trial, she is forced by someone known as "The Teacher" to persuade the other jurors to vote "not guilty". He threatens to kill her son...

Actors : Madeleine Blaustein, Mayumi Iizuka, Rica Matsumoto, Tomokazu Seki,

Ash Ketchum must gather the three spheres of fire, ice and lightning in order to restore balance to the Orange Islands.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Samuel Le Bihan, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Tonie Marshall,

Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.

Actors : Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater,
Directors : Bill Kroyer,

The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.

Actors : Eloise Eonnet, Hadrian Dagannaud-Brouard, Chaya Cuénot, Demi Moore,
Directors : Alain Berliner,

A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.

Actors : Xabier Elorriaga, Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...

Actors : Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine, Artyom Strelnikov, Steve Perry,
Directors : Pawel Pawlikowski,

When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.

Actors : Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kimberly Elise,
Directors : F. Gary Gray,

Desperation drives four inner-city women (Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise) to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting one another.

Actors : Andrea Corr, Jessalyn Gilsig, Bryan White, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Frederik Du Chau,

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.

Actors : Damian Young, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Hal Hartley,

Isabelle is an ex-nun waiting for her special mission from God. In the meantime, she is making a living writing pornography. She meets Thomas, a sweet, confused amnesiac who cannot remember...

Actors : Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Charlotte Rampling, Owen Teale,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage...

Actors : Julia Roberts, Gena Rowlands, Robert Duvall, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A woman's world is rocked when she discovers her husband is cheating on her.