Best Female Lead movies of 1988

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : Captain Haggerty, Alec Baldwin, Paul Lazar, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Vincent D'Onofrio, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Donald Petrie,

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.

Actors : Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Actors : Kevin Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Donovan Leitch Jr., Shawnee Smith,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everything in its path. Teenagers attempt without success to warn the townspeople, who refuse to take them seriously.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a highrise building, and the supernatural forces that have haunted her previously follow her there.

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Actors : Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : Larry Flash Jenkins, Phil Rubenstein, Cassandra Peterson, Damita Jo Freeman,
Directors : James Signorelli,

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle who wants her burned at the stake.

Actors : Fred Ward, Bette Midler, Edward Herrmann, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Jim Abrahams,

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family ...

Actors : Leo Rossi, Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

Actors : Allison Barron, Cathy Podewell, Hal Havins, Alvin Alexis,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Sigourney Weaver, John Omirah Miluwi, Julie Harris,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Actors : Pamela Springsteen, Tony Higgins, Valerie Hartman, Renée Estevez,
Directors : Michael A. Simpson,

Angela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways.

Actors : Ramon Bieri, Michael Lerner, Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper,
Directors : Ken Kwapis,

Psychics hired to find lost temple...

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bruno Nuytten,

Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt ...

Actors : Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power,
Directors : Jan Svankmajer,

A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, David Hoflin, Dale Reeves,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A mother whose child was killed in a Dingo attack in the Australian outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

Actors : Jerry Levine, Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Geneviève Robert,

While attending a singles retreat, two female friends-- one promiscuous, the other unlucky with men-- share their philosophies on love, sex, men, and dating in the wake of the 1980s AIDS epidemic.

Actors : Dean Cameron, Richard Lynch, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.