Best Female Lead movies of 1996

Actors : Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi, Luigi Diberti,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Antoine Basler, Maggie Cheung, Nathalie Richard,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.

Actors : Mae Whitman, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Robert Harling,

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious ...

Actors : Parker Posey, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber,
Directors : Greg Mottola,

When a happily married woman discovers a love letter written by her husband to an unknown party, she enlists her dysfunctional family to discover the truth.

Actors : Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton, Léopoldine Serre, Victoire Thivisol,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.

Actors : Sissy Boyd, Christina Pickles, John Turturro, Illeana Douglas,
Directors : Allison Anders,

An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break...

Actors : Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, Molly Parker, Natasha Morley,
Directors : Lynne Stopkewich,

Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

Actors : Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, Michelle Trachtenberg,
Directors : Bronwen Hughes,

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy business?

Actors : Alyssa Milano, Johnathon Schaech, Xander Berkeley, Belinda Bauer,
Directors : Anne Goursaud,

Lily is a sheltered art student from Michigan going to school in California. She finds an apartment and her roommates aren't quite normal. One day she finds a box of items belonging to a ...

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Halle Berry, Peter Greene, Clive Owen,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenupt. The ...

Actors : Karen Sillas, Frances Fisher, Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Susan Streitfeld,

An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.

Actors : Jenny Lewis, Angelina Jolie, Hedy Burress, Jenny Shimizu,
Directors : Annette Haywood-Carter,

The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of ...

Actors : Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, David O'Hara,
Directors : Terry George,

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ...

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Dean Silvers, Mary Kay Place, Aleksa Palladino,
Directors : Lisa Krueger,

A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Actors : Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

The recession hits a couple in Helsinki.

Actors : Cher, Paul Mazursky, Ryan O'Neal, Chazz Palminteri,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.

Actors : Halle Berry, Bill Hunter, James Belushi, Casey Affleck,
Directors : Charles T. Kanganis,

A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.

Actors : Alice Garner, Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski, Frances O'Connor,
Directors : Emma-Kate Croghan,

A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Michael Landes, Ione Skye, Mackenzie Astin,
Directors : Tiffanie DeBartolo,

Girl leads a lonely life until she meets the boy of her dreams. The boy, however, has a live-in girlfriend.