Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Karen Meagher, Sue Wallace, Geraldine Griffiths, Elizabeth Edmonds,
Directors : Peter Duffell,

A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales. She finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.

Actors : Johannes Brost, Reine Brynolfsson, Helena Bergström, Ing-Marie Carlsson,
Directors : Colin Nutley,

Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The...

Actors : Katherine Bean, Grace Phillips, Stephen Lack, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Jon Jost,

Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue...

Actors : Yilmaz Zafer, Macit Koper, Füsun Demirel, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

After Serap, the theatre actress, acts in an advertisement, she loses her identity and become a housewife with two children. The movie is about dilemma of Serap and Naciye.

Actors : Jessica Forde, Mr. Housseau, Joëlle Miquel, Mme. Housseau,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair ...

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Lambert Wilson, Brooke Shields, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

Actors : Nicholas Kilbertus, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Pen Densham,

When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a ...

Actors : Shafi Inamdar, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.

Actors : Christina Whitaker, Tammara Souza, Elizabeth Kaitan, Nick Cassavetes,
Directors : Anita Rosenberg,

Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are ...

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Julia Migenes, Faith Esham, Ruggero Raimondi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

Actors : Pamela Holland, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Laurie Lapinski,

Four college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished.

Actors : Christina Orbakaite, Yuriy Nikulin, Elena Sanaeva, Dmitri Yegorov,
Directors : Rolan Bykov,

Unpopular girl being bullied in her class.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Joe Pesci, Dianne Wiest, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Jack Hofsiss,

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Actors : Frances Bergen, Lisa Blake Richards, Nelly Alard, Mary Crosby,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A group of young and middle-aged women gather for the birthday party of a friend and talk about their lives and food they cook for their husbands, boyfriends, or themselves.

Actors : John Wildman, Margaret Langrick, Richard Donat, Jane Mortifee,
Directors : Sandy Wilson,

Adding an intriguing Canadian twist to a universally appealing story of teenage trials, My American Cousin begins as bored 12-year-old Sandy (Margaret Langrick) is preparing for another ...

Actors : Victor Wong, Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Ida F.O. Chung,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

In San Francisco, an immigrant Chinese widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune ...

Actors : John Laughlin, Faye Dunaway, Kim Cattrall, Daniel J. Travanti,
Directors : Roger Holzberg,

A group of adventurers sneak into Cuba to try to recover $1 million in cash that when hidden when Fidel Castro took over in 1959. They find themselves trying to avoid detection by Cuban ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Marjoe Gortner, Maurice Sherbanee, Bobbie Bresee,
Directors : Michael Dugan,

Traumatized by her mother's death, young Susan is becoming possessed by the same demon that possessed her mother before she died. More and more her husband and psychiatrist are noticing the...

Actors : Erika Bodnár, Hédi Temessy, Pál Hetényi, Miklós B. Székely,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.