Best Female Lead movies of 2009

Actors : Mariela Vitale, Diego Velázquez, Inés Efron, Pep Munné,
Directors : Lucía Puenzo,

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

Actors : Jake Abel, Zoë Bell, Vail Bloom, Justin Huen,
Directors : Paul Etheredge,

A career assassin becomes haunted by one of her victims following a near fatal injury to her brain. Becoming a rogue assassin settling the score with her former mob employers, chaos and power struggles ensue.

Actors : Nichola Burley, Kerrie Hayes, Jamie Doyle, Lawrence Larkin,
Directors : Lindy Heymann,

Two very different girls both face a sordid reality when they meet a local football star.

Actors : Olga Kurylenko, Ninette Tayeb, Henry David, Vladimir Friedman,
Directors : Danny Lerner,

A woman forced to work for the Russian Mafia as an assassin agrees to help her next-door neighbor kill her abusive husband.

Actors : Terence Anderson, Pihla Viitala, Nae, Miranda Hennessy,
Directors : Júlíus Kemp,

An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control.

Actors : Ha-neul Kim, Ji-Hwan Kang, Young-nam Jang, Seung-ryong Ryu,
Directors : Terra Shin,

(Korean with English subtitles) A huge box office hit in Korea, this action-packed romantic comedy pits two former lovers now both working a secret mission to infiltrate the Russian mob. As...

Actors : Jens Harzer, Stefan Konarske, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, David Kross,
Directors : Detlev Buck,

Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student ...

Actors : Amanda Pilke, Marjut Maristo, Malla Malmivaara, Joel Mäkinen,
Directors : Dome Karukoski,

Two teen girls from a very restrictive Conservative Laestadian faith community, go alone to Helsinki for the first time.

Actors : Sayaka Ohara, Kana Hanazawa, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Eri Sendai,
Directors : Kazuyoshi Katayama,

A virus begins to grip the Earth's population and a group of hopeful survivors are cryogenically frozen in attempt to find a cure. But when the group awakens they are flung into a horrifying situation.

Actors : Marcin Dorocinski, Anna Polony, Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Borys Lankosz,

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother ...

Actors : Mahmud Shalaby, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Dana Ivgy,
Directors : Keren Yedaya,

In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.

Actors : Laurel Casillo, Morgan Hooper, Torrey Weiss, Ryan Maslyn,
Directors : Dominic Perez,

On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence - until now.

Actors : Elif Bülbül, Mehmet Bülbül, Mete Dönmezer, Mustafa Uzunyilmaz,
Directors : Atalay Tasdiken,

A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.

Actors : Marzieh Vafamehr, Amir Chegini, Asha Mehrabi, Mobina Karimi,
Directors : Granaz Moussavi,

Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself ...

Actors : Pierre Bokma, Cees Geel, Chantal Janzen, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Steven de Jong,

When conditions are right an infamous ice-skating race is held in the north of the Netherlands. The 200 km race must be completed by midnight and everyone who finishes receives a medal. ...

Actors : Greta Zuccheri Montanari, Claudio Casadio, Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa,
Directors : Giorgio Diritti,

Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again ...

Actors : Jessica Graham, Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono,

A talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is ...

Actors : Mazhar Alanson, Bahar Akça, Kürsat Alniaçik, Meric Altintas,
Directors : Erdal Murat Aktas,

Actors : Diana Gómez, Ariadna Cabrol, Bernat Saumell, Laura Conejero,
Directors : Jesús Garay,

A young woman is hospitalized and in a coma after a serious accident. Through flashbacks we learn of her feelings for another woman.

Actors : Shôsuke Tanihara, Nozomi Sasaki, Hikaru Yamamoto, Mitsuki Ôishi,
Directors : Yuri Kanchiku,

Seventeen year old high school student Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention due to her beauty. Yet Rio has never cared about anyone but herself due to her traumatic past. Her friends...