Best Female Lead movies of 2011

Actors : Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Foster,
Directors : Fernando Meirelles,

A dramatic thriller that weaves together the stories of an array of people from disparate social backgrounds through their intersecting relationships.

Actors : Djimon Hounsou, Benoît Magimel, Diane Kruger, Denis Ménochet,
Directors : Stéphane Rybojad,

A French journalist in Afghanistan is kidnapped by the Taliban.

Actors : Kay Panabaker, Leslie Mann, Juno Temple, Kate Bosworth,
Directors : Elgin James,

Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.

Actors : Justin Martin, Evan Ross, Brittany Snow, Sharon Conley,
Directors : Aimee Lagos,

The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. Intercutting between a carjacking and the separate stories of the 4 kids in Atlanta, we watch as they hurtle toward a life-changing end.

Actors : Adam Byard, Kristian Gwilliam, Aled Pugh, Minnie Driver,
Directors : Marc Evans,

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Actors : Graham Clarke, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paula van der Oest,

In apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.

Actors : Danielle Harris, Lea Thompson, Keri Lynn Pratt, John Shea,
Directors : Jim Hemphill,

Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she's engaged.

Actors : Amy Seimetz, Eleonore Hendricks, Greta Gerwig, Olly Alexander,
Directors : Alison Bagnall,

Reeling from her husband's affair, Rose collides with a marooned teenager in a boarded-up Delaware beach town.

Actors : Blake Lively, Rory Culkin, Eddie Redmayne, Chloë Grace Moretz,
Directors : Derick Martini,

A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.

Actors : Tyler Ross, Eric Hulsebos, Molly Kunz, Frank Stennett,
Directors : Stephen Cone,

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is ...

Actors : Salvatore Cantalupo, Yle Vianello, Pasqualina Scuncia, Anita Caprioli,
Directors : Alice Rohrwacher,

Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church.

Actors : Jason Ritter, Richard Chamberlain, Emily Deschanel, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Anne Renton,

A devoutly Catholic wife and mother has been nominated for one of the church's top awards. She then goes about trying to prove she has the "perfect" family, refusing to accept them for who they are.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, Janet McTeer, Alphonso McAuley, Paz Vega,
Directors : John Stockwell,

When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.

Actors : Christopher Backus, Patti LuPone, Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard,
Directors : Nancy Savoca,

Jenny, who has rejected her tumultuous family for a more ordered life, gets a surprise visit from her sister Lucy at a critical time - right at the moment where she's feels ready to commit to her longtime fiancé.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, André Dussollier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

Agathe lives with her husband and son in a posh apartment in front of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Patrick lives with his son in the back of a van. She is the head of an important contemporary...

Actors : Louise Grinberg, Roxane Duran, Juliette Darche, Esther Garrel,

When a rebellious teenager finds out that she is already eight weeks pregnant, she forms a pact with sixteen of her classmates to get pregnant simultaneously, raise their children together, and most of all, be in charge of their lives.

Actors : Justin Gordon, Dave Levine, Courtney Bell, Catherine Parker,
Directors : Mike Flanagan,

A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.

Actors : Jennifer Hudson, Elias Koteas, Wendy Crewson, Terrence Howard,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.

Actors : Jim Dougherty, Adam Scarimbolo, Margo Martindale, Hanna Hall,
Directors : Zack Parker,

A perceptual thriller told from three points-of-view revolving around the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man and his mother's subsequent revenge after his incarceration.

Actors : Jackie Monahan, Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Cynthia Kaplan,
Directors : Madeleine Olnek,

The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from...