Best Female Lead movies of 2013

Actors : Maggie Baird, Lori Nasso, Finneas O'Connell, David Cowgill,
Directors : Jill D'Agnenica,

When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.

Actors : Maiara Walsh, Cody Christian, Brant Daugherty, Lauren Bowles,

In this Hunger Games spoof, Kantmiss Evershot must fight for her life in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle.

Actors : Radha Mitchell, Val Kilmer, Chandler Canterbury, Annalise Basso,
Directors : D.J. Caruso,

Two kids befriend each other after being left stripped nude in a lake as the victims of an immature summer camp prank. They run away from camp and for three days learn more about each other than they've ever known before.

Actors : Lea Michele, James Belushi, Kelsey Grammer, Dan Aykroyd,

Shortly after a tornado rips through her Kansas home, Dorothy returns to Oz to save her friends from a villainous jester.

Actors : Philip Ettinger, Bill Camp, Annabella Sciorra, Paula Garcés,
Directors : Michael Walker,

THE MAID'S ROOM is a psychological thriller that explores the complex relationships between truth and justice, hubris and power, wealth and fear.

Actors : Sophie Lowe, Maximilian Harnisch, Peter Stormare, Samuel Vauramo,
Directors : Markus Blunder,

High in the Mountains, a widowed mother dies, leaving her two children orphaned. Fearing being split up they keep their mother's death a secret. They survive until villagers destroy their innocence when they brutally assault the girl. Now the siblings must come of age to protect each other and survive.

Actors : Adelaide Kane, Hope Davis, David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Anthony Fabian,

After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Lauren Lee Smith, Ben Cotton, Sarah Grey,
Directors : Terry Miles,

As a young woman prepares a memorial film retrospective for her late estranged father, his work begins to influence her life in strange and significant ways.

Actors : David Costabile, Robert Forster, Jessalyn Gilsig, Lindsay Crouse,
Directors : Jeremy O'Keefe,

When Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Luke Grimes, Jena Malone, Devon Gearhart,
Directors : M. Blash,

Two sisters decide to keep their deceased mother in their home after being informed that she will come back to life.

Actors : Tamala Jones, Elimu Nelson, Shanola Hampton, Omari Hardwick,
Directors : Charles Murray,

An aspiring poet in a troubled marriage sparks with a new man who helps her find her artistic voice.

Actors : Candy Cheung, Sean Faris, Jennifer Birmingham Lee, Joman Chiang,
Directors : Stanley J. Orzel,

Amidst the sweeping cityscape of cosmopolitan Hong Kong, an ex-Marine falls in love with a ballerina from China. Against mounting cultural and religious pressure, the two star-crossed lovers risk it all in pursuit of true love.

Actors : Chantal Lauby, Joaquim de Almeida, Rita Blanco, Roland Giraud,
Directors : Ruben Alves,

For thirty years now Maria and José Ribeiro have been living on the ground floor of a Haussmannian building in one of the most exclusive districts of Paris. Everybody loves this nice couple...

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Rachel Miner, Andy Comeau, Shamika Cotton,
Directors : Brad Coley,

A woman returns to a small murky New England community where she grew up, located east of Acadia (French name for the region), to uncover the mystery behind her mother's untimely death. Some of the locals intend to stop her, though.

Actors : Stanley Weber, Iain De Caestecker, Gary Lewis, Karen Gillan,
Directors : John McKay,

When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too damn happy and she ...

Actors : Jamie Harrold, Marin Ireland, Melissa Leo, Josh Hamilton,
Directors : Enid Zentelis,

In this modern day drama, Oscar-winner Melissa Leo beautifully conveys the heart-wrenching struggle that comes with love and addiction, while also lightheartedly depicting a woman ...

Actors : Charles Berling, Virginie Efira, Gilles Cohen, Pierre Niney,
Directors : David Moreau,

The thirty-eight year-old ambitious and workaholic editor of the fashion magazine Rebelle Alice Lantins returns from Brazil to Paris and loses her flash memory in the airplane. However, the...

Actors : Thure Lindhardt, Trine Dyrholm, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Amelia Pidgeon,
Directors : Sherry Hormann,

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the factual case of Natascha Kampusch.

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Joelle Carter, Liev Schreiber, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.

Actors : Marisa Borini, Filippo Timi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel,
Directors : Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,

A family is forced to sell their Italian home.