Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Revathy, Saranya Ponvannan, Prabhu, Raghuvaran,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Chitra, her husband, Shekar, and two children, Arjun and Anu live in a rural area in India. When Chitra is expecting her third child, she is taken on a stormy night to a hospital where she ...

Actors : Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross, Nicole Rio, Angela O'Neill,
Directors : Carol Frank,

College student Beth and her sorority sisters are stalked by an escaped psychopathic killer who shares a strange telepathic link with her.

Actors : Brad Davis, Erika Blumberger, Judge Reinhold, Marianne Sägebrecht,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

A kindly but thieving shopaholic tries to turn her mistakes around, but does so by becoming a skilled computer hacker, something that could only get her into more trouble despite her goal to impress her beloved family.

Actors : Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Carmen Maura, Maurizio De Razza,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into...

Actors : Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is ...

Actors : Tanya Fenmore, Staci Keanan, D.W. Moffett, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

Fourteen year-old Lisa is raised by her unmarried mother Katherine who overprotects her by forbidding her to date until she's sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game ...

Actors : Chris Wiggins, Pam Hyatt, Maxine Miller, Hadley Kay,
Directors : Dale Schott,

In this second installment to the original Care Bear Movie trilogy of the 1980s, the Care Bear Family goes on their first Caring Mission--to stop the evil doings of a demon villain, named ...

Actors : Alice Diabo, Catherine Roche, Constance Garneau, Beth Webber,
Directors : Cynthia Scott,

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.

Actors : Shirley Stelfox, Danny Schiller, Julie Walters, Alec McCowen,
Directors : Terry Jones,

The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne.

Actors : Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Vera Miles,

While trying to understand a frightening reoccurring nightmare, a pledge is coaxed into breaking into her father's department store by her sorority sisters, where a deranged killer targets the girls and their boyfriends.

Actors : Kjersti Holmen, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Hans Ola Sørlie, Helge Jordal,

A group of seamen from Norway find a Soviet listening station. The they become targets for both America and Russia. Another cold war takes place.

Actors : Adnan Afravian, Bashu, Parviz Poorhosseini, Susan Taslimi,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

Lost and left behind in a foreign country after running away, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Vasiliy Livanov, Olga Gromova,
Directors : Roman Kachanov,

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to ...

Actors : Hitomi Kobayashi, Eriko Nakagawa, Aya Katsuragi, Miyuki Ono,
Directors : Toshiharu Ikeda,

A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life when a small, fetus-like creature murders her crew.

Actors : Lawrence Ko, Shu-Fen Hsin, Tian-Lu Li, Shu-Fang Chen,
Directors : Hsiao-Hsien Hou,

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone ...

Actors : Melissa Newman, Meg Tilly, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights,
Directors : Tom McLoughlin,

As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Jean-Claude Leguay, Vincent Lindon, Élisabeth Vitali,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Three months before her final examinations, the ambitious teachership student Valentine concentrates herself completely on learning. When Jazz musician Edouard wooes her, she agrees on a ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Adelheid Arndt, Otto Sander, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Actors : Rick Washburn, Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Patrick Weathers,

A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite. The freedom of Tromaville and the world is at stake! Troma's War ...

Actors : Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Bernice Stegers, Roberto Posse,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.