Best Female Lead movies of 2009

Actors : Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar, Roun Daher Aïnan,
Directors : Sherry Hormann,

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN ...

Actors : Shabnam Toloui, Arita Shahrzad, Pegah Ferydoni, Orsolya Tóth,

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Actors : Scott Porter, Alexis Bledel, Anna Chlumsky, Bryan Greenberg,
Directors : Julio DePietro,

Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of ...

Actors : Mark Rendall, Zoe Kazan, Maryann Urbano, Hunter Canning,
Directors : Bradley Rust Gray,

On a summer break from college, a young epileptic woman struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.

Actors : Camilla Belle, Colin Ford, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Actors : Isabelle Carré, Melvil Poupaud, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte,
Directors : François Ozon,

Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling ...

Actors : Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky, Katy O'Connor,
Directors : Andrew Bujalski,

A pair of identical twin sisters -- one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other -- 'same face, different bodies.'

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner,
Directors : Peter Cornwell,

After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, and uncover a sinister history.

Actors : Heino Ferch, Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...

Actors : Hamed Behdad, Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Babak Mirzakhani,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Actors : Ben Shenkman, Michael Cerveris, Timothy Hutton, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : John Krasinski,

A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Actors : Zach Gilford, Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Cady Huffman,
Directors : Adam Salky,

A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.

Actors : Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long, Chandler Canterbury,
Directors : Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,

After a car accident, a young woman who is caught between life and death, meets a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.

Actors : Garance Le Guillermic, Anne Brochet, Togo Igawa, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Mona Achache,

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents ...

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Ally Sheedy, Allison Janney, Michael Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Todd Solondz,

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

Actors : Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Dan Mailley, Connie Britton,
Directors : Sebastian Gutierrez,

A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, Odette Annable,
Directors : David S. Goyer,

A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Carla Gugino, Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz,
Directors : Tim Chambers,

In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their first national championship.

Actors : Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

Actors : Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Tania Popa, Vlad Ivanov,

Several urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.