Best Female Lead movies of 1997

Actors : Chris Freihofer, Woody Watson, Nick Stahl, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

We see two stories told over four time lines, which wind down to a devastating ground zero collision, as we watch a double tragedy unfold in a small Oklahoma town. The two stories are told ...

Actors : Ilona Schulz, Helge Schneider, Arne Elsholtz, Kathrin Ackermann,

Actors : Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Leila Hatami,
Directors : Dariush Mehrjui,

Leila and Reza meet in a kind of celebration and fall for each other. Having discovered their love, they get married soon only to find out the infertility of Leila. That's when Reza's ...

Actors : Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz, Tara Subkoff, Alison Folland,
Directors : Alex Sichel,

Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is ...

Actors : Tisha Campbell-Martin, Rusty Cundieff, Paula Jai Parker, Joe Torry,
Directors : Rusty Cundieff,

Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out ...

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Bacon, Marian Seldes, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Timothy Hutton,

10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans ...

Actors : Sasha Hails, Samantha, Paul Raoux, Marina de Van,
Directors : François Ozon,

Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d'Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she's passing through, and pitches her tent...

Actors : Marla Schaffel, Mitchell Whitfield, Meredith Scott Lynn, Michael Harris,
Directors : Julie Davis,

The story of a 25 year old virgin girl, looking for the right boyfriend, not realizing that "the one" has been next to her for many years.

Actors : Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Timothy Leary, Karen Black,
Directors : Lynn Hershman-Leeson,

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea ...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, François Cluzet, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and ...

Actors : Stellan Skarsgård, Akbar Kurtha, Rachel Griffiths, Om Puri,
Directors : Udayan Prasad,

Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.

Actors : Gérard Meylan, Jacques Boudet, Ariane Ascaride, Pascale Roberts,
Directors : Robert Guédiguian,

Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator ...

Actors : Nuno Vaz, Isabel Ruth, Vanda Duarte, Mariya Lipkina,
Directors : Pedro Costa,

The first film in Pedro Costa's transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. After a suicidal ...

Actors : Matthew Powers, Anna Levine, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tahnee Welch,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further ...

Actors : Stanislas Merhar, Charles Berling, Miou-Miou, Mathilde Seigner,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out

Actors : Richy Müller, Katja Riemann, Isabella Parkinson, Jürgen Vogel,
Directors : Rainer Kaufmann,

Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she ...

Actors : Jack Kao, Amanda Lee, Francis Ng, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Lambert Wilson, Bernard Giraudeau, Patrick Timsit,
Directors : Véra Belmont,

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.

Actors : Allan Svensson, Gabriel Odenhammar, Suzanne Reuter, Chelsie Bell Dickson,
Directors : Björn Gunnarsson,

Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of ...

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Jeremy Piven, Wallace Shawn, Sherilyn Fenn,
Directors : Andrew Gallerani,

A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.