Best Female Lead movies of 2001

Actors : Maria Bonnevie, Tord Peterson, Kim Bodnia, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Marius Holst,

Dragonfly is the story of a couple that wants to get away. They want to spend time together in peace. They want to put something behind them. There is no such place. Someone will always ...

Actors : Anna Bertheau, Antonio Wannek, Tim Sander, Carmen Simone Birk,
Directors : Connie Walter,

Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, ...

Actors : Latifa, Ahmad Bedair, Ahmed Wafik, Magda El-Khatib,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Drama about Malak, a rich and famous singing star who, when her husband leaves her, takes up with the younger, handsome Lamei. What Malak can't see - but her family can - is that Lamei is only after her money.

Actors : Hiroki Mano, Sabine Timoteo, Florian Müller-Mohrungen, Sabina Riedel,
Directors : Maria Speth,

Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to ...

Actors : Peter Tuinman, Monic Hendrickx, Rients Gratama, Jeroen Willems,
Directors : Pieter Verhoeff,

Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.

Actors : Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala, Wolfgang Kostal,
Directors : Jessica Hausner,

Rita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school, where she's disdained by classmates, and at home, where her staunchly religious mother and temperamental ...

Actors : Anneke Blok, Petra Laseur, Marisa Van Eyle, Bram van der Vlugt,
Directors : Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen,

Mother is dying and invites her family to spend a few days in a chalet in Austria. In the isolation of the snow-covered mountains, old wounds are reopened and the family ties crumble ...

Actors : Boyd Kestner, Melanie Lynskey, Dean O'Gorman, Oliver Driver,
Directors : Gillian Ashurst,

A hitchhiker takes two kids on the ride of their dreams, but they soon learn that their newfound hero is just as capable of delivering nightmares.

Actors : Zuzana Norisová, Jan Révai, Martin Kubacák, Tomás Hanák,
Directors : Filip Renc,

Musical retromovie from the 60's in Czech republic. Story about star-crossed lovers - student Tereza and a boy who deserted from the army.

Actors : Anass Behri, Fejria Deliba, Rabia Mokeddem, Amina Annabi,
Directors : Yamina Benguigui,

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the ...

Actors : Chelsy Reynolds, Bradley Armstrong Donohue, Tamara Cholakian, Robert Baugh,
Directors : John Sjogren,

A businessman gets caught up in extortion, murder and blackmail.

Actors : Paul Naschy, Carlos Fuentes, Zoe Berriatúa, Olivia Molina,
Directors : Carlos Gil,

Six teenagers decide to spend the night at an old abandoned school where 27 years ago a horrible massacre occurred. The kids run afoul of the vicious crazed security guard who committed the brutal killings.

Actors : Laetitia Casta, John Malkovich, Arielle Dombasle, Frédéric Diefenthal,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a ...

Actors : Xuxa, Tadeu Mello, Luciano Huck, Guilherme Karam,

A botany, environmentally friendly woman discovers she is part of a hidden and magical world inhabited by fairies and elves.

Actors : Charlotte Munck, Søren Pilmark, Liv Corfixen, Martin Brygmann,
Directors : Martin Schmidt,

Due to a failed séance of her flat mate's quirky grandparents, the cat of law student Maria gets possessed by demonic powers and starts some horrible massacres, adding even more trouble to ...

Actors : Brad Rowe, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Blanchard, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Joel Silverman,

A clothing designer fights to keep her Jewish-Italian family together when her brother decides to have a child with a woman he barely knows.

Actors : Jin-mo Ju, Kang-hee Choi, Seung-woo Cho, Hee-seon Kim,
Directors : Yong-gyun Kim,

Wanee, a young animator, and Junah, a scriptwriter, are lovers leading a peaceful life together. And one day, an old friend of Wanee's pays her a visit and unearths Wanee's hidden memories of her first love, her stepbrother.

Actors : Angie Redman, Nina Landey, Annette Miller, Robert Harte,
Directors : Lauren Himmelvo,

Casey has rejected her privileged upbringing and restores old boats for a living. She lives with her beautiful social worker girlfriend Alex in what seems like a cozy new life until her ...

Actors : Hülya Koçyigit, Aykut Oray, Nurgül Yesilçay, Fikret Kuskan,
Directors : Semir Aslanyürek,

The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of ...

Actors : Mariana Santangelo Goldman, Silvestre, Josep Linuesa, Andrea Fantoni,
Directors : Beatriz Flores Silva,

Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa ...