Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Maury Chaykin, Kevin King, Lenore Zann, Kate Lynch,

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one...

Actors : Mike Marshall, Carina Barone, Françoise Blanchard, Marina Pierro,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

Actors : François Négret, Bruno Cremer, Ludmila Mikaël, Vanessa Paradis,
Directors : Jean-Claude Brisseau,

A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon ...

Actors : Crispin Dickson Wendenius, Ellen Demérus, Linda Bergström, Henrik Larsson,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

The story of the children who live in Bullarby, Sweden, through the spring and summer months.

Actors : Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins, Ken Abraham, Linnea Quigley,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III; when they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.

Actors : Christopher Hewett, Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Larry Hankin,
Directors : Sondra Locke,

Several shady and shallow people try to profit, one after the other, from a physically deformed teenager whose face looks like a snout of a rodent and who lives hidden in a city garbage dump, alone and miserable.

Actors : Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Gerrit Graham, Leslie Nielsen,
Directors : Bruce Kimmel,

When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On ...

Actors : Jacques Spiesser, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Frederique (Huppert) leaves her family's small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present state ...

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Payne, Ted Danson, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Allan Burns,

Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Franco Interlenghi, Serena Grandi, Andy J. Forest,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

In this erotic comedy, Miranda is the landlady of a small country tavern who is looking for a husband, and tries out a variety of men for size.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Frank Langella, Vincent Spano, Donovan Leitch Jr.,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out...

Actors : Christopher Walker, Michael Bowen, Susan Dey, Tom Hulce,
Directors : Robert Dornhelm,

In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables, raises a son, Henry, and is an aspiring actress. She needs a roommate and takes in...

Actors : Melissa Moore, Gail Harris, Stacia Zhivago, Barbii,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before. They decide to stay in it for the ...

Actors : Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas, Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin,

God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane asylums ...

Actors : Natalya Negoda, Lyudmila Zaytseva, Yuriy Nazarov, Andrey Sokolov,
Directors : Vasili Pichul,

A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment ...

Actors : Natalie O'Connell, Teresa Farley, Frances Raines, Lance Lewman,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

The Manhattan General Hospital has admitted a string of young women who have been raped by something otherworldly. The perpetrator only attacks women who are virgins. Dr. Pace and Detective...

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Jutta Lampe, Doris Schade, Barbara Sukowa,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Actors : Li-Chun Lee, Wang An, Cora Miao, Pao-Ming Ku,
Directors : Edward Yang,

A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Madan Jain, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

An old couple lend a room on rent after recent death of the bread earner of the family, their only son. A budding actress starts living with them, who is in love with a local politician's only son. The movie shows what later ensues.

Actors : Emily Chu, Alex Man, Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930's. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir...