Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.

Actors : François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to ...

Actors : Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy, Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Peter Yates,

In 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.

Actors : Patrick Lowe, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur, Crystal Bernard,
Directors : Deborah Brock,

Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

Actors : Rebecca Balding, Jeff Harlan, Anne-Marie Martin, Fred McCarren,
Directors : James L. Conway,

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

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 : Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Robert Altman,

This is an insane and fast-paced romantic comedy about a bizarre dinner date among Bruce (Goldblum) and Prudence (Hagerty), and their lunatic therapists, and Bruce's jealous, gun-wielding ...

Actors : Natasha Richardson, Frances Fisher, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

The true story of Patricia Hearst, a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970s. The time spent with her captors made her question her way of life and she joined ...

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman, Ian Holm, Coral Browne,
Directors : Gavin Millar,

Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...

Actors : Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Chris Menges,

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...

Actors : Francesca Neri, Óscar Ladoire, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, María Barranco,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

The story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.

Actors : Susie Coelho, Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers,
Directors : Sam Firstenberg,

A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.

Actors : Julian Sands, Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few ...

Actors : Maria Pakulnis, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Aleksander Bardini,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and ...

Actors : Imanol Arias, Marta Fernández Muro, Helga Liné, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza ...

Actors : Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Virginie Thévenet, Fabrice Luchini,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.

Actors : Sophie Renoir, Eric Viellard, Anne-Laure Meury, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is ...

Actors : Adam Ferency, Krystyna Janda, Agnieszka Holland, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Ryszard Bugajski,

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.

Actors : Michelle Reis, Jacky Cheung, Joey Wang, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Siu-Tung Ching,

In this installment of a phenomenal saga of the super natural, four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. Outrageous special ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Roland Amstutz, Nathalie Baye, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.