Best Female Lead movies of 2009

Actors : Maxim Mehmet, Thomas Thieme, Anna Fischer, 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-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 : 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 : 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 : Anders W. Berthelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Nicolas Bro, Mohammed Al-Bakier,
Directors : Charlotte Sieling,

The lives of an intertwined group of people take a new direction as all they have taken for granted starts to change. Anne and Ask's relationship succumbs to 'metal fatigue', Charlotte ...

Actors : Corinna Harfouch, Duyen Pham, Jürgen Vogel, Jens Albinus,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

Actors : Huan-Ru Ke, Ting Ting Hu, Inga Busch, Jana Schulz,
Directors : Monika Treut,

Still grieving and off balance due to the death of her love, a German lesbian artist discovers she has attracted a mysterious, but sexy Taiwanese journalist.

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

Actors : Marcus Patrick, Cherie Johnson, April Scott, Antwon Tanner,
Directors : J. Jesses Smith,

Vivian thought she had it all as she married the man of her dreams but on her way to the honeymoon things went south as she was struck by a vehicle and was in a come for 3 years plenty of ...

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 : Natalie Dickinson, Henrik Norlén, Caitlin Wehrle, Keith Malley,
Directors : Patrick Johnson,

Love can be painful. Very painful. The intriguing-on-the-outside, twisted-and-tortured-on-the-inside Tara sets her sights on the unassuming guy-next-door Ray. Their innocent flirting turns ...

Actors : Febe Nilsson, Anna Nevander, Cecile Anckarswärd, Karin Bertling,
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 : Laurie Love, Aaron Neal Trout, Kent Welborn, Ron Jeremy,
Directors : Brian Skiba,

A hippie chick teams up with a comic book nerd to save the world from armies of werewolves, vampires and zombies.

Actors : Haruka Ayase, Seiji Fukushi, Munetaka Aoki, Tôru Nakamura,
Directors : Eiichirô Hasumi,

For the chance of seeing their teacher's "oppai". They took the challenge to win the volleyball tournament.

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

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

Actors : Michael Mittermeier, Pilar Bardem, Alina Freund, Sami Herzog,
Directors : Stefan Ruzowitzky,

Little Lilly is apprenticed to become the successor of Surulunda the Witch. Based on the internationally best-selling book series.

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 : Moa Silén, Maria Lundqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Zandra Andersson,
Directors : Teresa Fabik,

An overweight teenager girl struggles to be socially accepted.