Best Female Lead movies of 1990s

Actors : Nanako Matsushima, Hitomi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi,
Directors : Hideo Nakata,

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Actors : Nadia Litz, Gabrielle Rose, Molly Parker, Elize Frances Stolk,
Directors : Jeremy Podeswa,

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's ...

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Minnie Driver,
Directors : Sandra Goldbacher,

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family ...

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Elizabeth Lawrence,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Actors : Giovanni Ribisi, Dennis Farina, Omar Epps, Claire Danes,
Directors : Scott Silver,

Three minor delinquints (Danes, Ribisi, and Epps) are recruited by a cop (Farina) working undercover to bust a cop/drug ring. When the officer who recruited them is killed, they go above ...

Actors : Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Iain Glen, Jake D'Arcy,
Directors : Bill Eagles,

Two girls thrown together by their boyfriends' violence accidentally kill one of them.

Actors : Anne Heche, Amy Braverman, Catherine Keener, Miranda Rhyne,
Directors : Nicole Holofcener,

Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the...

Actors : Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, Ice-T, Don Harvey,
Directors : Rachel Talalay,

A girl is among the few survivors of a dystopian Earth. Riding a war tank, she fights against the tyranny of a mega-corporation that dominates the remaining potable water supply of the planet.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Karl Geary, Elina Löwensohn, Nic Ratner,
Directors : Michael Almereyda,

This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of ...

Actors : Bob Dishy, Carlin Glynn, Edie Falco, Barbara Barrie,
Directors : Eric Mendelsohn,

A lonely, but talented teacher enjoys a flirtation with her married principal, who returns her affections but is hampered by his high-strung wife. He is also hampered by a deadbeat son, who...

Actors : David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, Kevin Bacon, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.

Actors : Lou Diamond Phillips, Leon, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton,
Directors : Louis Morneau,

Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

Actors : Antonio Catania, Giuseppe Battiston, Bruno Ganz, Licia Maglietta,
Directors : Silvio Soldini,

After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

Actors : Carolyn Choa, Jenny Howe, Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson,
Directors : Anthony Minghella,

A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to earth as a ghost.

Actors : John MacKay, Rebecca Nelson, Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly,
Directors : Hal Hartley,

After being thrown away from home, Maria encounters a lady who complains of not having children. Almost getting raped, she ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the lady.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan, John Malkovich,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Xiaohe Lü, Zhou Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Miguel Sandoval,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant when her boyfriend kicks her out. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The ...

Actors : Stéphane Rideau, Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Frédéric Gorny,
Directors : André Téchiné,

In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. They are friends, not lovers. In Francois's classroom, there are Serge, whose brother has just married to...

Actors : Tim Matheson, Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Ate de Jong,

A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.