Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Scott Cohen, Lisa Kudrow, Natalie Portman, Charlie Tahan,
Directors : Don Roos,

The story of a woman dealing with her daughter's death while trying to keep her marriage and her relationship with her stepson.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Anthony John Crane, Gina St. John, Ron King,
Directors : Cecilia Miniucchi,

A turbulent and intriguing love story between two parking officers in the city of Los Angeles.

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 : 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 : Georgia Groome, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karen Taylor, Alan Davies,
Directors : Gurinder Chadha,

The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.

Actors : Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Valeria De Franciscis,
Directors : Gianni Di Gregorio,

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly...

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Virginie Ledoyen, Grégori Derangère, 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 : Atsuko Okatsuka, Rintaro Sawamoto, Cory Zacharia, Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez,
Directors : Mike Ott,

A powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in the U.S., 'Littlerock' is an affectingly authentic portrait of the bitter-sweet pain of ...

Actors : Brian Van Holt, Jonathan Abrahams, Zorie Barber, Amanda Peet,
Directors : Peter M. Cohen,

Three egotistical swingers, who think they're God's gift to women, end up having their friendships tested when all three of them pick up and start dating the same woman.

Actors : Mathilda May, Benoît Magimel, Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.

Actors : Lu Huang, Youan Yang, Yuling Zhang, Yunle He,
Directors : Yang Li,

A young woman is kidnapped and sold to a villager in the mountains.

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

A young girl befriends a wild black stallion.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Rachel Bailit, Maximilian Schell, Greta Scacchi,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, ...

Actors : Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small ...

Actors : Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri, Doona Bae, Arata Iura,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Actors : Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Nisreen Faour,
Directors : Cherien Dabis,

A drama centered on the trials and tribulations of a proud Palestinian Christian immigrant single mother and her teenage son in small town Indiana.

Actors : Matthew Settle, Lori Heuring, Nathan Bexton, Susan Ward,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

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 : Joshua Leonard, Dax Shepard, Katie Aselton, Marguerite Phillips,
Directors : Katie Aselton,

A young couple decides to give each other a night off, no questions asked.

Actors : Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Moran Atias,
Directors : Dario Argento,

Part three of the "Three Mothers" trilogy which takes place in Rome and has to do with Mater Lachrymarum (The Third Mother).