Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze, Heino Ferch,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...

Actors : Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson,
Directors : Geoffrey Sax,

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

Actors : Antonio Catania, Giuseppe Battiston, Bruno Ganz, Licia Maglietta,
Directors : Silvio Soldini,

After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

Actors : Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola, Jessica Alba, Rade Serbedzija,

A woman receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.

Actors : Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, Shareeka Epps, John Ortiz,

Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.

Actors : Wes Bentley, Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku,
Directors : Stephen Carpenter,

A co-ed is caught between the world of the living and the dead.

Actors : Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner,
Directors : Peter Cornwell,

After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, and uncover a sinister history.

Actors : Chris Bauer, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Gretchen Mol,
Directors : Mary Harron,

The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.

Actors : David Morse, Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher,
Directors : Rodrigo García,

A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Maya Banno, Takahiro Satô, Satomi Tezuka,
Directors : Katsuhito Ishii,

A spell of time of a rural family's slightly surreal life.

Actors : Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Cady Huffman, Zach Gilford,
Directors : Adam Salky,

A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.

Actors : Jesper Christensen, Maria Heiskanen, Callin Öhrvall, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Actors : Margherita Buy, Serra Yilmaz, Gabriel Garko, Stefano Accorsi,
Directors : Ferzan Ozpetek,

AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see ...

Actors : Dana Snyder, Dave Willis, Carey Means, Andy Merrill,

An action epic that explores the origins of Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, better known as the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

Actors : Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Chandler Canterbury,
Directors : Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,

After a car accident, a young woman who is caught between life and death, meets a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.

Actors : Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard,
Directors : Lucile Hadzihalilovic,

A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.

Actors : Hamed Behdad, Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Babak Mirzakhani,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Actors : Michael Cerveris, Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : John Krasinski,

A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Actors : Karina Testa, Patrick Ligardes, Samuel Le Bihan, Aurélien Wiik,
Directors : Xavier Gens,

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Actors : James Franco, Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, Barbara E. Robertson,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.