Best Female Lead movies of 1999

Actors : Madeleine Blaustein, Mayumi Iizuka, Rica Matsumoto, Tomokazu Seki,

Ash Ketchum must gather the three spheres of fire, ice and lightning in order to restore balance to the Orange Islands.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Samuel Le Bihan, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Tonie Marshall,

Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness.

Actors : Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Charlotte Rampling, Owen Teale,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage...

Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

Actors : Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Gina Gershon, Jean Smart,
Directors : Audrey Wells,

A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier,
Directors : François Ozon,

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost - much like the fairy-tale plight of ...

Actors : Sirisin Siripornsmathikul, Black Phomtong, Lalita Panyopas, Tasanawalai Ongartittichai,
Directors : Pen-Ek Ratanaruang,

A woman, fired from a financial coorporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. ...

Actors : Tom Everett Scott, Blythe Danner, Kate Capshaw, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Peter Ho-Sun Chan,

The power of words and images to open hearts. Helen runs, miles a day, to burn off energy: she's an emotional celibate. Going through the post at her shop, she finds a romantic and poetic ...

Actors : Alberto Estrella, Dolores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Pedro Altamirano,
Directors : Alejandro Springall,

When St. Jude appears to her to tell her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza goes on a search to find her daughter.

Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Sabine Azéma, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Claude Rich,
Directors : Danièle Thompson,

Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas,...

Actors : Russell Dykstra, Linal Haft, Jeanie Drynan, Geneviève Lemon,
Directors : Christina Andreef,

Three sisters and their ex-con brother return home to nurse their mother, who is dying of cancer.

Actors : Ann-Marie MacDonald, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Wendy Crewson,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

Two attractive young lesbians, Maggie and Kim, meet in Vancouver, develop a passionate romance, and move in together. Meanwhile, Maggie's well-meaning but naive mother Lila gets divorced ...

Actors : Johnathon Schaech, Kathleen Robertson, Kelly Macdonald, Matt Keeslar,
Directors : Gregg Araki,

An average, calm mid-20s girl named Veronica restarts her dead dating life all of the sudden, but with two guys: a sensitive failed writer named Abel and an airheaded drummer named Zed. At ...

Actors : Lou Doillon, Robinson Stévenin, Maud Forget, Maxime Mansion,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Améris,

Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

Actors : Robin Renucci, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent author Alfred de Musset and her affinity for wearing men's clothing, was the content ...

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Thomas Jane, Elisabeth Shue, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : John Duigan,

A bachelor becomes the unwilling guardian of his autistic, intellectually disabled sister; then an experimental treatment works a dramatic change in her brain and his attitude.

Actors : Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Tomas Villum Jensen, Dejan Cukic, Kim Bodnia,
Directors : Lasse Spang Olsen,

Two brothers, one cold and ruthless, the other sensitive and reluctant, and their brutal misadventures.

Actors : Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot, Sergi López,
Directors : Catherine Corsini,

Camille is having the time of her life, enjoying all that Pari's decadent nightlife has to offer a young single woman. She parties all night with sexual abandon, then stumbles home at dawn,...

Actors : Nassim Izem, Stéphanie Touly, Iliès Sefraoui, Mustapha Goumane,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.