Best Female Lead movies of 2002

Actors : Desmond Harrington, Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Steve Beck,

A salvage crew that discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea soon notices, as they prepare to tow it back to land, that strange things happen.

Actors : Lupe Ontiveros, America Ferrera, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez,
Directors : Patricia Cardoso,

This is the story of Ana, a first generation Mexican-American teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in the predominately Latino community of East Los Angeles. Freshly ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush, Goldie Hawn, Erika Christensen,
Directors : Bob Dolman,

Lavinia and Suzette, former rock groupies and best friends, reconnect after twenty years; one is still as wild as ever, while the other has adopted a more conservative lifestyle.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire, Paul Popplewell,
Directors : Lynne Ramsay,

After her beloved husband's suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can't run away from forever.

Actors : Tara Strong, Elizabeth Daily, Cathy Cavadini, Roger Jackson,
Directors : Craig McCracken,

The movie shows the origin of the Powerpuff Girls before the cartoon series. It explains why they were born and why they dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil.

Actors : Rosario Flores, Leonor Watling, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, Edward Burns,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A reporter interviews a psychic, who tells her that she's going to die and her life is meaningless.

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

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

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Charles Berling, Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.

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 : Katie Holmes, Zooey Deschanel, Charlie Hunnam, Benjamin Bratt,
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 : 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 : Jo Prestia, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Albert Dupontel,
Directors : Gaspar Noé,

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.

Actors : Anna Paquin, Giancarlo Giannini, Lena Olin, Iain Glen,
Directors : Jaume Balagueró,

A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Anne Parillaud, Ashley Wanninger, Roxane Mesquida,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Kyoko Fukada, Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

Three stories of never-ending love.

Actors : Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Megumi Okina,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Actors : Trent Ford, Michael McKean, Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor,
Directors : Melanie Mayron,

A French foreign-exchange student comes to a small Texas high school, befriends a classmate, and practically takes over her life.

Actors : Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Pongpas, Sa-gnad Chaiyapan,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.

Actors : Zoe Saldana, Anson Mount, Taryn Manning, Britney Spears,
Directors : Tamra Davis,

Three childhood best friends, and a guy they just met, take a road trip across the country, finding themselves and their friendship in the process.