Best Female Lead movies of 1997

Actors : Leea Klemola, Rea Mauranen, Henriikka Salo, Elina Hurme,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Beyaz, Haluk Bilginer, Lale Mansur, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

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

Actors : Judy Thompson, Jack Becker, Kim Yates, John Logan,
Directors : Rick Blaine,

Michael and Janie are a pair of young grad students living together on a quiet college campus. One day, Janie discovers that Michael has been cheating on her. She walks out on him, only to ...

Actors : Emily Booth, Sexton Ming, Ron Drand, Shend,

This is the story of the beautiful young Pervirella. Set in the mythical English land of Condon, the grotesque, power-mad Queen Victoria builds a wall around the country and establishes a "...

Actors : Toni Collette, Malcolm Kennard, Dominic West, Victoria Eagger,
Directors : David Parker,

Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes ...

Actors : Rekha, Anwesha Bhattacharya, Dinesh Thakur, Om Puri,
Directors : Basu Bhattacharya,

Mansi and Amar have been married for years, and have a daughter by this marriage. Amar is employed full-time, while Mansi looks after the household chores and their daughter. Amar earns a ...

Actors : Deborah Twiss, Benja Kay, Rene Alberta, Tracy Dillon,
Directors : Todd Morris,

A woman comes to New York City from Ohio to escape an abusive husband and gets entangled with murderous female vigilantes who prey on abusive men.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Steven Ford, Nick Mancuso, Richard Grieco,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

A trigger-happy outlaw goes on the run and a burned out, disillusioned cop gives chase. They end up head-to-head in a Los Angeles shoot out.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, David Carradine, Charles Napier, Todd Kimsey,
Directors : Victoria Muspratt,

Our heroine isn't having a good time. Having lost her L.A. job and walked out on her unfaithful boyfriend, she finds herself stuck in nowhere Macon County when her car and possessions are ...

Actors : James Frain, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jennifer Grey, Dee Freeman,
Directors : Allison Burnett,

Three guys talk about their sex lives around a meal of red meat.

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Georges Corraface, Agnès Soral, Julie Delarme,
Directors : Charlotte Silvera,

Sabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague. The story of their relationship and the gradual ...

Actors : Daryl Mitchell, Hilary Swank, Meta Golding, Peter Dobson,
Directors : Josef Rusnak,

Multi-character study of various people, a prostitute, a waitress, a lawyer, a gay actor, whose lives criss-cross each during three days in their lives in Los Angeles.

Actors : Devon Gummersall, George Dzundza, Rosanna Arquette, Julie Ariola,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

A seductive woman (Rosanna Arquette) with a violent boyfriend steals a car and entices a teen (Devon Gummersall) to join her in robbery and more.

Actors : Johnny Keatth, Mellara Gold, Elina Madison, Landon Hall,
Directors : Eric Gibson,

When a mysterious incident nearly claims the life of a beautiful actress during rehearsals for her upcoming play, everyone deduces that her ambitious understudy, Elizabeth (Mellara Gold), ...

Actors : Marisa Berenson, Marthe Keller, Carmen Maura, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Luís Galvão Teles,

Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.

Actors : Michael Yarmush, Martine Badgley, Elisha Cuthbert, Natalie Vansier,
Directors : Kit Hood,

Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine, and there's Freddy who's looking at her as no one has before. ...