Best Female Lead movies of 2009

Actors : Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen, Bart Voitila, Michael King,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by ...

Actors : Wei Yi Bo, Geoffrey Hutchings, Chris Ryman, Lu Huang,
Directors : Xiaolu Guo,

This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads...

Actors : Marieta Severo, Nanda Costa, Amanda Diniz, Kika Farias,
Directors : Sandra Werneck,

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and ...

Actors : Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Marie Brassard, François Arnaud, Yvan Benoît,
Directors : Sophie Lorain,

After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress ...

Actors : Florence Foresti, Pierre Richard, Raymond Bouchard, Pierre-François Martin-Laval,
Directors : Pierre-François Martin-Laval,

Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their...

Actors : Kerry Beyer, Julin, Brandon Smith, Megan Moser,
Directors : Kerry Beyer,

When a street smart "goth girl" (Roxy Vandiver) is forced to attend cheerleader camp as part of her rehabilitation from a juvenile correction facility, she clashes with the "popular girls,"...

Actors : Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Kumiko Asô, Ryo Kase,
Directors : Satoshi Miki,

A quirky young woman who loves antiques embarks on risky adventures and business endeavors with her eccentric friends, trying to score a unique item that will finally be worth a huge profit...

Actors : Orgil Makhaan, Stepanida Borissova, Sergei Egorov, Gernot Grimm,
Directors : Andrei Borissov,

Actors : Febe Nilsson, Anna Nevander, Karin Bertling, Cecile Anckarswärd,
Directors : Hanna Sköld,

This is Mette's story. Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four seniors that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where ...

Actors : Elizabeth Holmes, Steven Nieport, Carolyn Hauck, Suthi Picotte,
Directors : John Michael Elfers,

A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of the oldest son. Though labeled a suicide, the bizarre circumstances lead the mother, Helen, to believe there are ...

Actors : Pablo Derqui, Eliza Triana, Jordi Dauder, Joaquín Climent,
Directors : Hilda Hidalgo,

Based on Gabriel García Márquez's novel, this is the unsettling story of 13-year-old noble Sierva and the dog bite that changes her life forever. Abandoned, displaced, in the midst of a ...

Actors : Josef Bierbichler, Regine Andratschke, Bernhard Baron Boneberg, Adriana Altaras,

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Actors : Daniel Frederiksen, Danielle Catanzariti, Natalie Imbruglia, Deborah Kennedy,
Directors : James Bogle,

Tells the story of a woman's journey to overcome the events of the past and to find a way to move on. It is a story of dark secrets and the power of and celebration of letting go.

Actors : Maxim Mehmet, Anna Fischer, Thomas Thieme, Felicitas Woll,
Directors : Peter Timm,

Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes...

Actors : Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands, Michel Duchaussoy, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Julie Lopes-Curval,

Pregnant and living in Canada, Audrey visits her parents in the small French town of her birth. Over the holiday, she comes to learn the story of the grandmother who gave up her family, ...

Actors : Sergio Rubini, Miriana Raschillà, Claudia Pandolfi, Pietro Del Giudice,
Directors : Susanna Nicchiarelli,

Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with...

Actors : Martin Henderson, Bren Foster, Ian Roberts, Rachael Taylor,
Directors : Serhat Caradee,

A journey into the lives of young Middle Eastern men from Sydney's outer west with dreams and desires to better themselves and fit in

Actors : Honey Shain, Stephanie Leon, Julie Grundtvig Wester, Malou Reymann,
Directors : Hella Joof,

Four dysfunctional teenage girls steal a car and elope from the institution where they live. They go on a road trip across Denmark, confronting ghosts of the past and settling old accounts as their dark secrets are revealed.

Actors : Shigeru Muroi, Masatô Ibu, Tadanobu Asano, Takako Matsu,
Directors : Kichitaro Negishi,

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 ...

Actors : Fred Ward, Danielle Chuchran, Miranda Cosgrove, Connie Sellecca,
Directors : Craig Clyde,

A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.