Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Romola Garai, Sophie Stuckey, Bill Nighy, Rose Byrne,
Directors : Tim Fywell,

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

Actors : Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Andrew Adamson,

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.

Actors : Daniel Franzese, Andrew Howard, Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson,
Directors : Steven R. Monroe,

A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Xander Berkeley,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Actors : Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Dermot Mulroney, Felicity Huffman, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A troubled young woman is sent to live with her grandmother for the summer, while hiding a secret that could potentially tear her family apart.

Actors : Amina Annabi, Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya,
Directors : Ruba Nadda,

A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.

Actors : Barry Pepper, Jennifer Baxter, Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel,

The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Penélope Cruz, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlize Theron,
Directors : John Duigan,

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told ...

Actors : Toni Collette, Stephen Spinella, Nia Vardalos, David Duchovny,
Directors : Michael Lembeck,

A mob mix-up in Chicago sends two chanteuses screaming for L.A., where they score a perfect gig: posing as drag queens on the dinner theater/cabaret circuit. Things get extra-weird when a guy falls for one of the girls.

Actors : Javier Cámara, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Sarah Polley,
Directors : Isabel Coixet,

A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden, Charlotte McDougall,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

Actors : Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc, Olivier Rabourdin, Emmanuelle Devos,
Directors : Arnaud Desplechin,

Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

Actors : Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Moises Arias, Bridgit Mendler,
Directors : Hiromasa Yonebayashi,

The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.

Actors : Holland Taylor, Mick Weber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marisa Tomei,
Directors : Brad Anderson,

Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. ...

Actors : Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, John Ventimiglia, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Rebecca Miller,

Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

Actors : Steve Harris, Kimberly Elise, Tyler Perry, Cicely Tyson,
Directors : Darren Grant,

A couple's seemingly solid marriage begins to crumble when the wife discovers that her husband intends to divorce her.

Actors : Scout Taylor-Compton, Jane Lynch, Alexa PenaVega, Mika Boorem,
Directors : Joe Nussbaum,

Four best friends, desperate to improve their social status, enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.