Best Female Lead movies of 2005

Actors : Michael Kelly, Tess Harper, Adrian Lee, Kip Pardue,
Directors : Tim Kirkman,

Three overlapping stories of estranged families in three regions of North Carolina.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Josh Lucas,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.

Actors : Jenna Dewan Tatum, Chad Faust, Katie Stuart, Bryan Clark,
Directors : Jeremy Haft,

Tamara, an unattractive girl, who is picked on by her peers returns after her death as a sexy seductress to exact revenge.

Actors : Amy Brenneman, Kathy Baker, Glenn Close, LisaGay Hamilton,
Directors : Rodrigo García,

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Actors : Kate Greenhouse, Bruce McFee, Jeff Seymour, David Calderisi,
Directors : Paul Fox,

The thirty and something years old psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Goodman has an incurable brain tumor that has just started to grow. Felling totally stressed, she decides to spend the weekend ...

Actors : Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Lili Taylor, 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 : Queen Latifah, Djimon Hounsou, Andie MacDowell, Alicia Silverstone,
Directors : Bille Woodruff,

A determined hairstylist (Queen Latifah) competes with her former boss (Kevin Bacon) after opening her own business in Atlanta.

Actors : Pell James, Carrie Fisher, Kip Pardue, Shannyn Sossamon,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.

Actors : Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jim Gaffigan, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Danny Leiner,

The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.

Actors : Bárbara Mori, Manolo Cardona, Gaby Espino, Christian Meier,
Directors : Ricardo de Montreuil,

Unable to get intimate with her husband of 10 years, a woman embarks on a steamy affair with his brother.

Actors : Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine,
Directors : Nobuhiro Yamashita,

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

Actors : Linda Cardellini, Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden,
Directors : Aric Avelino,

Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.

Actors : Debbie Doebereiner, Omar Cowan, Dustin James Ashley, Phyllis Workman,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.

Actors : Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, AnnaSophia Robb, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Actors : Mya, Portia de Rossi, Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg,
Directors : Wes Craven,

A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn they must kill it in order to avoid becoming werewolves themselves.

Actors : Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Paul Sedaris,
Directors : Paul Dinello,

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a forty-six-year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.

Actors : Nicholas Tse, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, Dong-gun Jang,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

Actors : Lucy Tulugarjuk, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz,

Fiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking ...

Actors : Louise Portal, Charlotte Rampling, Ménothy Cesar, Karen Young,
Directors : Laurent Cantet,

Three female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.

Actors : Theresa Poh Lin Chan, Chiew Sung Ching, Lawrence Yong, Leong Kooi Eng,
Directors : Eric Khoo,

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