Best Female Lead movies of 1989

Actors : Carrie Fisher, Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Julieta Serrano, Loles León,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Actors : Minami Takayama, Kirsten Dunst, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Actors : Roseanne Barr, Meryl Streep, Linda Hunt, Ed Begley Jr.,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Actors : Joshua John Miller, Robyn Lively, Caren Kaye, Dan Gauthier,
Directors : Dorian Walker,

High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?

Actors : Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Oliver,
Directors : Michael A. Simpson,

After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.

Actors : Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

Actors : Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Geneviève Lemon, Jon Darling,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Actors : Elizabeth Cox, David Byrnes, Dan Hicks, Renée Estevez,
Directors : Scott Spiegel,

The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ...

Actors : Jenny Wright, Stephanie Hodge, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook,
Directors : Tibor Takács,

A bookshop clerk finds that an insane and murderous doctor from one of the store's horror novels has come to life.

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Bridget Fonda, Scott Coffey,
Directors : Zelda Barron,

Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.

Actors : Lise Delamare, Jacques Spiesser, Jean Mercure, Catherine Ferran,
Directors : Jérôme Boivin,

A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.

Actors : Noufou Ouédraogo, Adama Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Fatimata Sanga,
Directors : Idrissa Ouedraogo,

A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When ...

Actors : Yoshiko Tanaka, Etsuko Ichihara, Kazuo Kitamura, Shôichi Ozawa,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Adam Coleman Howard, Bernadette Peters, Mary Beth Hurt,
Directors : James Ivory,

Eleanor lives with the artist Stash. Just like his artist friends, he is completely unknown but is waiting for the big break. Stash is mean to her and finally she leaves him. Ironically, ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Robert Beltran, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.

Actors : Adrienne Barbeau, Shannon Tweed, Karen M. Waldron, Bill Maher,
Directors : J.F. Lawton,

The government hires a feminist at the local university to track down the Piranha Women living in the uncharted Avocado Jungle (westernmost outpost is San Bernardino) to convince them to ...