Best Female Lead movies of 2001

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

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 : Jytte Abildstrøm, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Olivia Fuglsang-Laviana, Karen Møller E.,

The girl Eva's parents are too busy at their jobs in the airport to go on summer vacation with her, so she decides to go with her grandmother in the attempt to find Eva's grandfather Åge, who used to be a pilot.

Actors : Christine Hakim, Dian Sastrowardoyo, Slamet Rahardjo, Didi Petet,
Directors : Nan Triveni Achnas,

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother...

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 : Maria Kraakman, Manja Topper, Halina Reijn, Kuno Bakker,
Directors : Nanouk Leopold,

Three friends who never took life too seriously, now around thirty, start to realize they cannot laugh everything off anymore.

Actors : Yôichirô Saitô, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, 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 : Emmanuelle Laborit, Lars Otterstedt, Renate Becker, Wolfram Berger,
Directors : Christoph Schaub,

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.

Actors : Debora Duboc, Claudio Jaborandy,
Directors : Toni Venturi,

Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São ...

Actors : Gigi Leung, Jiayan Chen, Jian Cui, Wu Jiang,
Directors : Zhong Yu,

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

Actors : Orsolya Török-Illyés, Domokos Szabó, Illés Nyitrai, László Katona,
Directors : Szabolcs Hajdu,

Actors : Shawna Waldron, Dale Snowberger, David Reynolds, Andrea Gall,
Directors : Aaron Vanek,

A young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.

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

Actors : Julie K. Smith, Alexus Winston, Aimee Sweet, Shauna O'Brien,
Directors : Doug Hoffman,

Six nude models are placed on the island of "Butta Cheeka" and battle it out for cash prizes.

Actors : Lou Doillon, Caroline Ducey, Guillaume Saurrel, Camille Clavel,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

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

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.