Best Female Lead movies of 1990s

Actors : Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

A former U.S. First Lady wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.

Actors : Stephen Collins, Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Mark Metcalf,
Directors : John Schultz,

Nicole Maris is a popular high school preppy senior in Utah who gets her life turned upside down when her perfect date, Brad, falls for a cute cheerleader from another school a month before...

Actors : Rebecca Gayheart, Judy Greer, Rose McGowan, Julie Benz,
Directors : Darren Stein,

Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.

Actors : Jimmy Smits, Kim Basinger, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an FBI agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities and the abductees are a Satanic cult wanting to harness her abilities.

Actors : Benjamin Bratt, Rupert Everett, Illeana Douglas, Madonna,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Abbie, tired of failed relationships, has a one-night-stand with her gay friend; they agree to raise the resulting baby together.

Actors : Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Sigourney Weaver, Dara Perlmutter,
Directors : Scott Elliott,

A woman's life falls apart after she's blamed for an accident on her property.

Actors : Jason London, J. Smith-Cameron, Dylan Bruno, Emily Bergl,
Directors : Katt Shea,

A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.

Actors : Elpidia Carrillo, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Pilar Padilla,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

Actors : Katie Holmes, Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Actors : Natasha Henstridge, Alfred Molina, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.

Actors : Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend.

Actors : Matthew Davis, Jennifer Morrison, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine,
Directors : John Ottman,

A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.

Actors : Greta Scacchi, James Cosmo, Alan Cumming, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Douglas McGrath,

In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.

Actors : David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Antonio Banderas,

An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.

Actors : Katrin Cartlidge, Kate Byers, Lynda Steadman, Mark Benton,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

2 young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.

Actors : Jonathan Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Treat Williams, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

The Deep End of The Ocean is a film about a family's reaction when Ben, the youngest son is kidnapped and then found nine years later, living in the same town, where his family had just moved.

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Jonny Lee Miller, Frances O'Connor, Hannah Taylor Gordon,
Directors : Patricia Rozema,

At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral ...

Actors : Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.

Actors : Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.