Best Female Lead movies of 2002

Actors : Makrand Deshpande, Shabana Azmi, Shweta Prasad, Aalaap Majgavkar,
Directors : Vishal Bhardwaj,

In a small North Indian village, Legend has it that a 100 years-old witch lives in an abandoned mansion on the village outskirts, and any person who goes inside is turned into an animal. In...

Actors : Gabriel Garko, Anna Galiena, Antonio Salines, Franco Branciaroli,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

Trapped in an unhappy marriage, the wife of a high ranking Fascist official starts a dangerous, self-destructive relationship with a duplicitous S.S. Officer.

Actors : Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, María Barranco, Álvaro de Luna,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, ...

Actors : Patricia Clarkson, Colm Feore, Caroline Dhavernas, Bernard Hepton,
Directors : Michael MacKenzie,

A wealthy American Quaker woman rebels and marries a French baron for love. A plan to start a Parisian salon with a distinctively democratic air brings conflict with her new surroundings ...

Actors : Erica Prior, Trae Houlihan, Denis Rafter, Craig Stevenson,
Directors : Paco Plaza,

After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". ...

Actors : Terry Dahlstron, Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors,
Directors : Ivan Sen,

The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events ...

Actors : Tian-Lin Wang, Simon Yam, Sammi Cheng, Ching Wan Lau,

A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.

Actors : Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Julie Gayet, Geneviève Bujold, Pascale Bussières,
Directors : Manon Briand,

A seismologist investigates the mysterious cessation of the tides near her Quebec home town.

Actors : Stefan Pagels Andersen, Julie Zangenberg, Mads Ravn, William Haugaard Petersen,
Directors : Fabian Wullenweber,

The obstacles facing the perilous mission of 12-year-olds Ida, Sebastian and Jonas are many: a bank vault 30 meters above ground to open, secret combinations to crack, vicious guard dogs to...

Actors : Danny de Kok, Ellen van der Koogh, Nienke Brinkhuis, Joep Sertons,
Directors : Stephan Brenninkmeijer,

Despite Diana's insecure nature, she and her husband Julian agree with the idea to sexually experiment with another couple. They put out an ad on the net to which the well experienced Alex ...

Actors : Adèle Haenel, Vincent Rottiers, Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonnaffé,
Directors : Christophe Ruggia,

The siblings Joseph and Chloé are 12 and have just been placed on another children's home. For years they were on the same or separate homes or on the run together. Chloé is an autist. She ...

Actors : Larisa Oleynik, Peter Coyote, Patricia Kalember, Shiri Appleby,
Directors : Peter Gilbert,

Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.

Actors : Margherita Buy, Virna Lisi, Sandra Ceccarelli, Luigi Lo Cascio,
Directors : Cristina Comencini,

The lively goings-on of a modern family seen through the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.

Actors : Taylor Momsen, Lynn Redgrave, Delta Burke, Jacob Smith,
Directors : Gary J. Tunnicliffe,

If you go down to the woods tonight be sure of the biggest surprise of your life! When Hansel and Gretel's wicked stepmother leads them into the dark forest, the children find themselves in...

Actors : Golab Adineh, Roya Nonahali, Roya Taymourian, Pegah Ahangarani,
Directors : Manijeh Hekmat,

Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young ...

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Mira Sorvino, Olivier Martinez, Alida Valli,
Directors : Pepe Danquart,

The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets

Actors : Joel Bissonnette, Justin Pierce, Ben Ratner, Kim Huffman,

Ted, his girlfriend Jo, and his brother Johnny are small-time robbers in Montreal. The brothers spend their time watching TV, while Jo rereads Leonard Cohen's novel "Beautiful Losers" and ...

Actors : Els Dottermans, Frieda Pittoors, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Vanden Eynde,
Directors : Dorothée Van Den Berghe,

A young girl moves to the big city, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide.

Actors : Sidonie von Krosigk, Katja Riemann, Corinna Harfouch, Max Befort,
Directors : Hermine Huntgeburth,

An evil witch tries to take possession of a crystal ball from the hands of a young and benevolent witch.