Best Female Lead movies of 1990s

Actors : Meryl Streep, Michael Angarano, Cloris Leachman, Henry Dinhofer,
Directors : Wes Craven,

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

Actors : Mädchen Amick, Ray Wise, Dana Ashbrook, Sheryl Lee,
Directors : David Lynch,

A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.

Actors : Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Actors : Tom Everett Scott, Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt,
Directors : Carl Franklin,

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Actors : Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Kali Rocha, Lena Cardwell,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

Actors : George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : John N. Smith,

An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.

Actors : Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente,
Directors : Tom Tykwer,

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Actors : Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Xander Berkeley, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski, Ben Stiller, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

Unhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.

Actors : Temuera Morrison, Willem Dafoe, Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Jan de Bont,

A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.

Actors : Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz,
Directors : Todd Solondz,

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Kate Nelligan, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Anne Yernaux, Fabrizio Rongione, Émilie Dequenne,

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

Actors : Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Kôichi Yamadera,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.

Actors : Holland Taylor, Mick Weber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marisa Tomei,
Directors : Brad Anderson,

Ruby Weaver has man trouble: she tries to fix them, so she's stuck herself with a string of losers. Her current lover, Sam Deed, seems different: he's sweet, tender, just in from Dubuque. ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told ...

Actors : Tom Sizemore, James Whitmore, Linda Hunt, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Casey Affleck,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.