Best Female Lead movies of 2006

Actors : Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque, Sara Paxton, Jake McDorman, Emma Roberts,
Directors : Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum,

Two teenage girls discover a mermaid in their beach club's swimming pool.

Actors : Golden Brooks, Sanaa Lathan, Fuzzy Fantabulous, Simon Baker,
Directors : Sanaa Hamri,

Kenya McQueen, an accountant finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.

Actors : Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Sima Mobarak-Shahi,
Directors : Jafar Panahi,

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith,
Directors : Susannah Grant,

A woman struggles to accept the death of her fiancé and the secrets he kept from her as she rebuilds her life.

Actors : Toni Collette, Brittany Murphy, Marcia Gay Harden, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Karen Moncrieff,

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

Actors : Olivia Bonamy, Michaël Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman,

Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.

Actors : Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Sienna Miller,
Directors : George Hickenlooper,

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner, Chris Pine,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Joe Roth,

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Actors : Jordana Brewster, Matt Bomer, Diora Baird, Taylor Handley,
Directors : Jonathan Liebesman,

Before being sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends take one last road trip, but when they get into an accident, a terrifying experience will take them to a secluded house of horrors, with a chainsaw-wielding killer.

Actors : Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Nazan Kesal,
Directors : Nuri Bilge Ceylan,

A dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed and selfish, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.

Actors : Whitney Able, Michael Welch, Anson Mount, Amber Heard,
Directors : Jonathan Levine,

A group of high-schoolers invite Mandy Lane, an innocent, desirable girl, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop mysteriously.

Actors : Shohreh Aghdashloo, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Hiam Abbass, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Catherine Hardwicke,

A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

Actors : Camilla Belle, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Simon West,

During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Edison Chen,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

Three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.

Actors : John Howard, Stelios Yiakmis, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in ...

Actors : Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Rick Gonzalez,
Directors : Jim Sonzero,

When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Carré,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

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 : 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.