Best Female Lead movies of 2002

Actors : Juliette Lewis, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen,
Directors : Michael Apted,

After running away fails, a terrified woman (Jennifer Lopez) empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband (Billy Campbell).

Actors : Marina de Van, Thibault de Montalembert, Léa Drucker, Laurent Lucas,
Directors : Marina de Van,

A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.

Actors : Rebecca Jenkins, Stacy Smith, Marguerite McNeil, Molly Parker,
Directors : Wiebke von Carolsfeld,

Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.

Actors : Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi,

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

Actors : Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung, Matthew Ferguson,
Directors : Andrzej Sekula,

Eight strangers awaken with no memory and find themselves in a puzzling cube shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

Actors : Kate Dollenmayer, Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder, Jennifer L. Schaper,
Directors : Andrew Bujalski,

Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she's still in school, and is looking for a temporary job but a permanent boyfriend. She loves a guy who doesn't love her (?), ping-pongs ...

Actors : Jean Reno, Scali Delpeyrat, Juliette Binoche, Sergi López,
Directors : Danièle Thompson,

A worn-out businessman and a beautician on the run collide in a Paris airport. Love arrives, all its hurdles be damned.

Actors : Hossein Mahjoub, Taraneh Alidoosti, Negar Javaherian, Mahtab Nasirpour,
Directors : Rasoul Sadrameli,

Fifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage ...

Actors : Jeremy Davies, Tilda Swinton, James Urbaniak, John O'Keefe,
Directors : Lynn Hershman-Leeson,

Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, ...

Actors : Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ethan Embry,
Directors : Robert Harmon,

A psychology student finds all her childhood fears and phobias becoming real after a traumatic event.

Actors : Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Miremont, Fabrice Deville,
Directors : Jean-Claude Brisseau,

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their ...

Actors : Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu, Jacques Bouanich, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Philippe Muyl,

This is the story of a young girl named Elsa who was raised by a single mother (Isabelle) in the city. Isabelle and Elsa begin the film moving in next door to an elderly man who collects ...

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Huppert, Maud Forget, Fabienne Babe,
Directors : Olivier Dahan,

A prostitute and her teenager daughter, will have to run away after the girl stabs her mother's pimp. The woman will try to find her son, which she hasn't seen in 8 years.

Actors : Hélène Fillières, Vincent Lindon, Valérie Lemercier, Hélène de Saint-Père,
Directors : Claire Denis,

Having packed up her possessions to move in with her lover, Laure is more unsettled than she appears. Needing to get out and have a change of scenery, she jumps in her car to go to have ...

Actors : Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood, Madonna, Elizabeth Banks,
Directors : Guy Ritchie,

A snooty socialite is stranded on a Mediterranean island with a communist sailor.

Actors : Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Takayuki Yamada, Aki Maeda,
Directors : Hiroyuki Morita,

After helping a cat, a young girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.

Actors : Jill Hennessy, Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets, Vera Farmiga,
Directors : Peter Mattei,

New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.

Actors : Chiara Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Raphaëlle Molinier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Delphine Gleize,

After a bull dies in an arena, its remains are transported throughout Belgium, France, and Spain, where various characters cross its path.

Actors : Nezam Manouchehri, Mahmood Pakniat, Leila Hatami, Mehran Rajabi,
Directors : Alireza Raisian,

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher ...

Actors : Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Hitomi Kuroki,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.