Best Female Lead movies of 1997

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 : Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Shilpa Shirodkar, Ayub Khan,
Directors : Prakash Jha,

In a rural Indian village two corrupt villagers contractor Tirpat Singh and his colleague MLA Durga Pandey are rallying the other villagers into doing things that will benefit themselves. ...

Actors : Tove Appelqvist, Johanna Sällström, 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 : Frédéric Malgras, Nicolas Welbers, Amira Casar, Vahina Giocante,
Directors : Manuel Pradal,

A random montage of disturbing images tell a story about one summer in the lives of two teenagers who somehow find love within each other, Orso and Marie. After they realize this, they run ...

Actors : Michael Beach, Mark Harmon, Jon Gries, Caroline Goodall,
Directors : Alex Graves,

A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. She discovers that she may have found the solution in, of all places, her cooking...

Actors : Theresa Lee, Ya-Lei Kuei, Carina Lau, Charlie Yeung,
Directors : Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung,

Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner ...

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

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 : Saïd Taghmaoui, Marc Duret, 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 : 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 : Terele Pávez, Ruth Gabriel, María Barranco, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Agustí Villaronga,

Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village. She learns that he was conducting ...

Actors : Lars Simonsen, Helene Egelund, Trond Høvik, Anneke von der Lippe,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the ...

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 : 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 : Jordan Chan, Anita Yuen, Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Peter Ho-Sun Chan,

Sam and Wing get together after falling in love, only to be followed by other love related complications.

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Francine Bergé, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

The slightly kleptomanic 29-year-old Mathilde is experiencing strange swoonings since a few days. There she encounters a mysterious doctor who treats her with hypnosis therapy. As she gets ...

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 ...

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 : 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 : Marie-Anne Chazel, Didier Bénureau, Clémentine Célarié, Thierry Lhermitte,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,