Best Female Lead movies of 2011

Actors : Austin Vickers, Sarah Hagan, Haley Parker, Haley Strode,
Directors : Clay Jeter,

A series of vignettes involving memories of companionship and sexual awakening shared by two second cousins.

Actors : Katie O'Grady, Storm Large, John Keyser, Melik Malkasian,
Directors : James Westby,

A scathing black comedy of embarrassment, RID OF ME charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery.

Actors : Stana Roumillac, Christophe Cherki, Vincent Byrd Le Sage, Sophie Berger,
Directors : Mariette Monpierre,

A young Parisian woman of Caribbean descent returns to her native island of Guadeloupe looking for the father she has never known.

Actors : Margo Martindale, Jim Dougherty, Adam Scarimbolo, 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 : Rene Liu, Jiao Xu, Harlem Yu, Hui-Min Lin,
Directors : Tom Lin,

12-year-old Mei grew up with her grandparents in the mountains, but now lives with her parents in the city. Her parents constantly fight and she ignored at home. Mei withdraws into her own world and imagination.

Actors : Sonia Guedes, Luis Serra, Lisa Fávero, Ricardo Merkin,
Directors : Júlia Murat,

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a ...

Actors : Luke Arnold, Steve Davis, Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda,
Directors : Carlo Ledesma,

An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.

Actors : Paul Schneider, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Christophe Honoré,

In London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances: Madeline rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her.

Actors : Jim Cody Williams, Jason Butler Harner, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Lily Rabe,
Directors : Christopher Munch,

Sarah Smith, an artist and government hydrologist, sets out on a post-fire stream survey in a remote part of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of southwestern Oregon. In the course of her journey ...

Actors : E.J. Bonilla, Jaime Tirelli, Priscilla Lopez, Leah Pipes,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

When, Mia, a dance teacher, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando, a would-be dancer who admires her from afar, persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Zoë Kravitz, Sonequa Martin-Green, Maurice Compte,
Directors : Victoria Mahoney,

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Zach Gilford, Julie Benz, Elizabeth Mitchell,
Directors : Matthew Leutwyler,

Against the backdrop of a missing girl case, lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don't always see.

Actors : Karin Viard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy,
Directors : Cédric Klapisch,

After losing her job at a local factory, a single mother enrolls in a housekeeper training program, soon landing work cleaning the Paris apartment of handsome but cocky power broker.

Actors : John Woo, Bingbing Fan, Daniel Wu, Yun-Fat Chow,

A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

Actors : Milla Jovovich, Julian McMahon, David Atrakchi, Michael Shanks,
Directors : Julien Magnat,

A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

Actors : Kate Lyn Sheil, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Joe Swanberg,
Directors : Joe Swanberg,

A young actress is cast as the lead in a werewolf film which leads to many unexpected consequences in her life.

Actors : Talia Balsam, Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery,
Directors : Liza Johnson,

A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life.

Actors : Tenika Davis, Jennifer Pudavick, Kaitlyn Leeb, Terra Vnesa,
Directors : Declan O'Brien,

A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to three deformed cannibals.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Nikki Reed, Malin Akerman, Deborah Ann Woll,
Directors : Aaron Harvey,

For Tes (Akerman) and her two cohorts Kara (Nikki Reed) and Dawn (Deborah Ann Woll), the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel (Willis) ...

Actors : Megan Mercier, Kate Lyn Sheil, Lane Hughes, Amy Seimetz,

Follow four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.