Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Guillaume Marquet, Patrick Mille, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman's innocence. But when the protégé's ideas become tempting enough for ...

Actors : Rutina Wesley, Tre Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Boyd Banks,
Directors : Ian Iqbal Rashid,

Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.

Actors : Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya,
Directors : Nina Paley,

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.

Actors : Katja Riemann, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Katja von Garnier,

A young teenage werewolf (Bruckner) is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man (Dancy).

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson, Mélanie Thierry,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella...

Actors : Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jamie Babbit,

Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.

Actors : Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Mark Woodbury, Michael Kaycheck,
Directors : Daniel Minahan,

A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.

Actors : Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell,
Directors : Sandra Goldbacher,

Two best friends grow up on the Isle of Wight and in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Sharon Maguire,

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

Actors : Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Zooey Deschanel, Charlie Hunnam,
Directors : Stephen Gaghan,

A senior at an elite college, already under severe pressure to complete her thesis and land a prestigious job, must confront the sudden reappearance of her old boyfriend, after his two-year...

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Ariane Labed, Yorgos Lanthimos,
Directors : Athina Rachel Tsangari,

Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.

Actors : Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi,
Directors : Giuseppe Capotondi,

A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.

Actors : Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, Topher Grace,
Directors : Dylan Kidd,

An unfulfilled divorced woman gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who appears to be her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

Actors : Chris O'Donnell, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Bette Midler,
Directors : Brad Peyton,

The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

Actors : Hank Harris, Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain,

A sorority girl finds her life falling apart after she develops romantic feelings for a mentally-challenged man.

Actors : Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck, Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Michel Leclerc,

A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.

Actors : Keira Knightley, Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong, Sienna Miller,
Directors : John Maybury,

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Actors : Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Sarah Adler,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud,
Directors : Olivier Dahan,

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.