Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Judy Davis, Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Jason Schwartzman,
Directors : Sofia Coppola,

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Actors : Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Paulina Gaitan,
Directors : Cary Fukunaga,

A Honduran young girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the American border.

Actors : Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a journey across the Outback.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Kseniya Rappoport,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Actors : Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.

Actors : Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum,
Directors : Sarah Gavron,

A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat ...

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.

Actors : Aisling Loftus, Emily Watson, Lorraine Ashbourne, Stuart Wolfenden,
Directors : Jim Loach,

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

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 : Talulah Riley, Gemma Arterton, Jodie Whittaker, Rupert Everett,

In order to save their bankrupt school, a group of troublesome girls stage a robbery with a group of geniuses on their tails.

Actors : Fernanda Montenegro, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Andrucha Waddington,

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Actors : Johanna Wokalek, Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Uli Edel,

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Actors : Bonnie Aarons, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough,
Directors : Chris Sivertson,

A young woman who was missing reappears, but she claims to be someone else entirely.

Actors : Johannes Björk, Magnus Börjeson, Sanna Persson, Bengt Braskered,

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Actors : Max Beesley, Mariah Carey, Eric Benét, Da Brat,
Directors : Vondie Curtis-Hall,

A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.

Actors : Bárbara Goenaga, Candela Fernández, Nacho Vigalondo, Karra Elejalde,
Directors : Nacho Vigalondo,

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Kerry Conran,

After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

Actors : Jessica Capshaw, Denise Richards, Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz,
Directors : Jamie Blanks,

Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.

Actors : Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Brittany Snow, Dana Davis,
Directors : Nelson McCormick,

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.