Best Female Lead movies of 2003

Actors : Yui Ichikawa, Chiharu Niiyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

As their curse spreads on all around, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.

Actors : Dinara Drukarova, Nino Khomasuridze, Temur Kalandadze, Esther Gorintin,
Directors : Julie Bertuccelli,

The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family's adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died ...

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Grégori Derangère, Virginie Ledoyen, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

An actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Nazis move into the city.

Actors : Biana Tamimi, Richard Romanus, Patrick Elyas, Gérard Rudolf,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A young girl befriends a wild black stallion.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Clémence Meyer, Emmanuelle Béart,
Directors : André Téchiné,

Emmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees Nazi-occupied Paris with her children. A teenaged boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest -- their best shot at survival.

Actors : Hristo Shopov, Joan Plowright, Jim Caviezel, Ben Tibber,
Directors : Paul Feig,

A 12-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark.

Actors : Suzanne Flon, Benoît Magimel, Nathalie Baye, Mélanie Doutey,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

Actors : Tara Birtwhistle, Amy Stewart, Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

It's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her ...

Actors : Margherita Buy, Alice Teghil, Antonio Carnevale, Sergio Castellitto,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an...

Actors : Marguerite Moreau, Emily Deschanel, Naveen Andrews, Brían F. O'Byrne,
Directors : Jane Weinstock,

Heart-broken after several affairs, a woman finds herself torn between a Poet and a TV Host.

Actors : Susana Campos, Hugo Arana, Osvaldo Santoro, Bárbara Lombardo,
Directors : Gaston Biraben,

Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists ...

Actors : Uri Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Liron Levo, Hana Laslo,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.

Actors : Stephen Brian Jones, Andrew Thaman, Charles Socarides, Elisabeth Moss,
Directors : Deborah Kampmeier,

When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.

Actors : Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Vin Knight, Gina Quintos,
Directors : Greg Pak,

Winner of over 23 awards, "Robot Stories" is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies and android office...

Actors : Ye Liu, Ziyi Zhang, Yuanzheng Feng, Tôru Nakamura,
Directors : Ye Lou,

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a ...

Actors : Patricia Kovács, Józsa Hacser, Imre Csuja, Gábor Máté,
Directors : Tamás Sas,

A one-room drama about a very young woman and her middle-aged lover.

Actors : Richard Harris, Anjelica Huston, Kirsten Dunst, Cécile De France,

Axis, a gigantic coiling plant, stretches high above the clouds. At its center, is a village whose people are in mortal danger, because Axis is withering, it's sap is drying up. The people ...

Actors : Angel Aquino, Hilda Koronel, Sharon Cuneta, Eric Quizon,
Directors : Mark Meily,

A whimsical comedy about three women who cry at funerals, professionally.

Actors : Susan Floyd, Jennifer Elster, Gale Harold, Larry Pine,
Directors : Jennifer Elster,

Life, love, and the fear of failing . . . Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides with the complicated and obsessive life of ...

Actors : Trish Doolan, Zack Ward, Frank Grillo, Maria Cina,
Directors : Trish Doolan,

April's Shower is a comedy about love, romance and expectation. The story follows unpredictable twists and turns until it climaxes with a madcap finale. The hilarity belies the poignancy of...