Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Fabienne Babe, Pascal Greggory, Maud Forget, Isabelle Huppert,
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 : Henny Trayles, Gabriel Goity, María Onetto, Arturo Goetz,
Directors : Natalia Smirnoff,

An older housewife discovers she has a knack for solving puzzles.

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicole Garcia, Luck Mervil, Mathilde Seigner,
Directors : Claude Miller,

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to...

Actors : Elsebeth Steentoft, Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Frank Thiel,
Directors : Pernille Fischer Christensen,

A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Pascale Arbillot, Jamel Debbouze,
Directors : Agnès Jaoui,

Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through...

Actors : Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Akbar Kurtha,
Directors : Arnaud Desplechin,

A Jewish girl in nineteenth century London, dreams of becoming a stage actress.

Actors : Patrick Bruel, Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Marilyne Canto,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.

Actors : Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The No. 3 assassin of Japan is given the chance to usurp No. 1 and take their place.

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 : Jana Brejchová, Jirí Schmitzer, Josef Abrhám, Anna Geislerová,
Directors : Jan Hrebejk,

A flood in Prague has damaged Marcela and Jarda's home. He behaves boorishly over their son's asthma so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, a possessive woman whose ...

Actors : Cara Seymour, Gary Farmer, Noah Fleiss, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Enid Zentelis,

A young girl seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, goes to extremes to gain acceptance and escape her poverty-stricken homelife.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched...

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Andrew Cherry, Kelly Gould,
Directors : Bart Freundlich,

In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.

Actors : Bárbara Lombardo, Susana Campos, Hugo Arana, Osvaldo Santoro,
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 : Sarah Lassez, Vic Chao, Devon Odessa, James Duval,
Directors : Gregory Hatanaka,

A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence.

Actors : Emily Deschanel, Marguerite Moreau, 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 : Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Michael Biehn, Shiri Appleby,
Directors : Barbara Kopple,

Two affluent suburban girls clash with the Latino gang culture of East Los Angeles.

Actors : Sonequa Martin-Green, Samantha Eustace, Louisa Krause, Maha Chehlaoui,
Directors : Emily Abt,

A story about two lacrosse teammates from opposite sides of the track.

Actors : Silvio Muccino, Adalberto Maria Merli, Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A Rome policewoman teams up with a British Interpol agent to find a crafty serial killer whom plays a taunting game of cat-and-mouse with the police by abducting and killing young women and showing it over an Internet web cam.

Actors : Natasha Richardson, Aidan Quinn, Lexi Ainsworth, Emma Roberts,
Directors : Nick Moore,

A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.