Best Female Lead movies of 1981

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Karin Well, Simone Mattioli,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. The zombies attack a jet-set-group which is celebrating a party in a villa nearby...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Grant Page, Marion Edward, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.

Actors : Rebecca Balding, Anne-Marie Martin, Jeff Harlan, 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 : Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Patrick Piccininni, Howard Hesseman,
Directors : Alan Myerson,

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Ann Mitchell, Nicholas Clay,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her ...

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Volyntsev, 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 : Rüdiger Vogler, Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Doris Schade,
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 : Line Arlien-Søborg, Marian Wendelbo, Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner, David Selby,
Directors : George Cukor,

Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes...

Actors : Yelena Fadeyeva, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidz, Yelena Metyolkina,

A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, John Gielgud, Maurice Ronet, Frank Langella,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Actors : Tatyana Aksyuta, Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Elena Solovey, Irina Miroshnichenko,
Directors : Ilya Frez,

A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates ...

Actors : Gyula Szabó, Ferenc Szalma, György Cserhalmi, Vera Pap,
Directors : Marcell Jankovics,

A man is born the son of a horse with superpowers and uses them to do battle with legendary dragons.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Claude Jade, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy,

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Sabine Haudepin, Etienne Chicot, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : André Téchiné,

Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a ...

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne, Ann Bronston,
Directors : Byron Quisenberry,

A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.

Actors : Dennis Robertson, Morgan Most, Michael MacRae, Trish Everly,
Directors : Ovidio G. Assonitis,

Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideously deformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local looney bin. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for ...