Best Female Lead movies of 2000s

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, William Hurt,
Directors : Jay Russell,

A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.

Actors : Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Mathieu Kassovitz,

A repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with no memory of why she is there or what she has done.

Actors : Ben Chaplin, Michael Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

Two gifted high school students execute a "perfect" murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.

Actors : Martin Compston, Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan,
Directors : J Blakeson,

A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.

Actors : Goran Visnjic, Peter Donat, Tilda Swinton, Jonathan Tucker,

A woman spirals out of control while trying to keep her son from being found culpable in a murder investigation.

Actors : Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Barbara Flynn, Emily Watson,
Directors : Chris Noonan,

The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Iain Glen, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor,
Directors : Simon West,

Video game adventuress Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.

Actors : Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Sarala Kariyawasam, John Abraham,
Directors : Deepa Mehta,

A thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is ...

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Remo Girone, Giovanni Ribisi, Stefania Rocca,
Directors : Tom Tykwer,

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Donna Murphy, Paul Giamatti,

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

Actors : Alexz Johnson, Kris Lemche, Ryan Merriman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Directors : James Wong,

A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from Death itself, which seeks out those who escaped their fate.

Actors : Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington, Fredro Starr, Julia Stiles,
Directors : Thomas Carter,

A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston,
Directors : Jonathan Glazer,

A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Marc Lawrence,

A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrera,
Directors : Sanaa Hamri,

Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Joe Roth,

A movie publicist deals with the messy public split of his movie's co-stars while keeping reporters at bay while a reclusive director holds the film's print hostage.

Actors : David Strathairn, Arielle Kebbel, Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks,

Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her cruel stepmother and ghastly visions of her dead mother.

Actors : Craig Bierko, Bill Pullman, Anna Faris, Regina Hall,
Directors : David Zucker,

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton, Breckin Meyer, Cheryl Hines,
Directors : Angela Robinson,

Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.