Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Dick Hagerman, Allison Siko, Elizabeth Perkins, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Jessica Sharzer,

After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.

Actors : Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, Gustavo Alonso, María Salazar,
Directors : Gustavo Hernández,

The plot is based on a true story that happened in the late '40s in a small village in Uruguay. The film focuses on Laura, who, second by second, intends to leave a house, which hides an ...

Actors : Jesse Metcalfe, Bill Moseley, Bill Lippincott, Erika Christensen,
Directors : Robert Lieberman,

An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

Actors : Tony Goldwyn, Scarlett Johansson, Nastassja Kinski, Raffaella Bánsági,
Directors : Éva Gárdos,

A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

Actors : Jessica Paré, Victoria Snow, Jessica Mackenzie, Macha Grenon,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.

Actors : Arcelia Ramírez, Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez, María Rojo,
Directors : Marisa Sistach,

A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent ...

Actors : Isaïe Sultan, Raphaël Bouvet, Béatrice Dalle, Alain Libolt,
Directors : Patric Chiha,

A drama centered on the relationship between a teenager, Pierre, and Nadia, a woman in her thirties.

Actors : Zoë Poledouris, Kinnie Starr, Melody Moore, Nicole Barrett,
Directors : Kurt Voss,

The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.

Actors : Zweilungile Sidloyi, Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou,
Directors : Mark Dornford-May,

A version of Georges Bizet's Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township.

Actors : Pablo Pineda, Isabel García Lorca, Antonio Naharro, Lola Dueñas,

Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the ...

Actors : Richard Clarkin, Shannon Beckner, Tracy Wright, Jenni Burke,
Directors : Daniel Cockburn,

A fantasy about a reclusive woman who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her, turning her home into an archive. As realities collapse and intersect ...

Actors : Lizzie Brocheré, Arthur Dupont, Guillaume Baché, Pierre Perrier,

Chacun Sa Nuit explores the carnal interdependencies among a host of characters who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre (Arthur Dupont), a conceited and ...

Actors : Haibin Li, Yijing Zhang, Zhongyang Qi, Yu Xia,
Directors : Jiang Xiao,

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in...

Actors : Savannah Stehlin, Robert Bradvica, Kevin Chung, Rodney Eastman,
Directors : J.B. Ghuman Jr.,

A colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy.A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When a...

Actors : Karolina Muller, Élodie Bouchez, José María de Tavira, Karim Saleh,
Directors : Zeina Durra,

Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.

Actors : Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Hitomi Kuroki,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.

Actors : Assumpta Serna, César Sarachu, Gottfried John, Amira Casar,

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Actors : Leonor Watling, Alex Brendemühl, Mercedes Sampietro, Luis Tosar,
Directors : Joaquín Oristrell,

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.,

Actors : Chiara Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Raphaëlle Molinier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Delphine Gleize,

After a bull dies in an arena, its remains are transported throughout Belgium, France, and Spain, where various characters cross its path.

Actors : Khomotso Manyaka, Keaobaka Makanyane, Lerato Mvelase, Harriet Lenabe,
Directors : Oliver Schmitz,

A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.