Best Female Lead movies of 1997

Actors : Johanna Sällström, Tove Appelqvist, Jens Hultén, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Daniel Fridell,

23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of some kind of treatment. At the clinic she is told that her pimp / boyfriend Roffe has turned ...

Actors : Beyaz, Haluk Bilginer, Lale Mansur, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Alex Fong, Ruby Wong, Carman Lee, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Johnnie To,

Following the lives of firefighters as they deal with joys and hardships, both on the job and with their own personal lives.

Actors : Michael Vartan, Kari Wuhrer, Peter Facinelli, Amanda Peet,
Directors : H. Gordon Boos,

Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, ...

Actors : Aramis Trindade, Duda Mamberti, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Chico Díaz,

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.

Actors : Omar Fanucci, Gabriela Salas, Mabel Dai, Gustavo Domínguez,
Directors : Víctor González,

A portrait of a couple, living in poverty and prostitution. Couple is joined by a second woman, and problems escalates.

Actors : Suthinee Michalke, Quing Li, Sarab Borhanian, Carina Teutenberg,
Directors : Daryush Shokof,

Actors : Prakash Raj, Devayani, Raghuvaran, Pawan Kalyan,
Directors : Srinivasa Rao Bhimaneni,

Actors : Sofie Gråbøl, Stina Ekblad, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Ellen Hillingsø,
Directors : Susanne Bier,

Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her...

Actors : Anne Céline Auche, Juliette Gautier, Marc Montserrat, Jessica Andrieu,
Directors : José Luis Guerín,

A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental.

Actors : Marc Duret, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maïdi Roth, Virginie Ledoyen,
Directors : Gérard Krawczyk,

Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France. One year at the Miners' Ball, the music group The Sirens perform, of which Johanna and ...

Actors : Nicolaj Kopernikus, Troels Lyby, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Bjarne Henriksen,
Directors : Jonas Elmer,

Three friends, Steffen, Thomas and Mogens spend a lot of time together in Julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money for tickets to the big game next week. At...

Actors : Mädchen Amick, Graham Greene, Adrian Pasdar, Robert Costanzo,
Directors : Richard Martin,

The forest rangers Julie Clayton and her boyfriend Don Powell find several grizzly-bear slaughtered in the forest. They report to their superior and he comes with the FBI Agent Eric Ashton ...

Actors : Katarzyna Figura, Grzegorz Herominski, Dorota Chotecka, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Janusz Zaorski,

The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and cope with the realities of the Big Apple.

Actors : Leea Klemola, Rea Mauranen, Elina Hurme, Henriikka Salo,
Directors : Auli Mantila,

Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.

Actors : Alethea McGrath, Chloe Ferguson, Ullie Birve, Syd Brisbane,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent ...

Actors : Boris Terral, Patrick Chesnais, Nils Tavernier, Brigitte Roüan,
Directors : Brigitte Roüan,

The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.

Actors : John Stockwell, Michael Fairman, Janet Gunn, Lisa Zane,
Directors : Robert Malenfant,

A traumatized nurse plots revenge against a catatonic businessman, whom she blames for the death of her father. She integrates herself in to his family as his personal nurse and plots revenge by killing off his family members one by one.

Actors : Nikolay Fomenko, Elena Shevchenko, Valentin Gaft, Lev Durov,
Directors : Vladimir Mashkov,

A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who could suppose that three "...

Actors : Paul-Ottar Haga, Sina Langfeldt, Sofie Gråbøl, Martin Slaatto,
Directors : Trygve Allister Diesen,

Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern ...