Best Female Lead movies of 1997

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

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 : Aldo Sambrell, Alain Petit, Monique Parent, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A stripper and her sleazy boyfriend are invited by a wealthy woman and her lover to join them on her private island for a weekend of sex games in exchange for a large fee. When the couple ...

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Natalie Perrey, Isabelle Teboul, Bernard Charnacé, Alexandra Pic,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

Actors : Christopher Khayman Lee, Daphne Duplaix, David Everett, Chyler Leigh,
Directors : Richard Gabai,

Watch your nose in the hallways, these guys can really kick. In this fight flick, the students of a kickboxing academy take on students from a rival school.

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

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

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 : 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...