Best Female Lead movies of 1988

Actors : Dean Cameron, Richard Lynch, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Actors : Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Reb Brown, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan,

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.

Actors : William R. Moses, Kathy Ireland, Richard Haines, Don Michael Paul,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

A nerdy teen-age girl goes looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Tami Erin,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old ...

Actors : John Heard, Tom Berenger, Debra Winger, Betsy Blair,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Actors : Burl Ives, Richard Tyson, Sherilyn Fenn, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Zalman King,

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

Actors : Frances Fisher, Natasha Richardson, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Terence Kelly, Mark Erickson, Caroline Barclay, Sarah Torgov,
Directors : John Hough,

On a lonely island in the Pacific Northwest, a group of travelers find themselves targeted by a crazed, homicidal family.

Actors : Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Olivier Parnière,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.

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 : Catherine Aymerie, Richard Cotica, Danielle Daven, Caroline Braeckman,
Directors : Emmanuel Kervyn,

When given a demonic present by their black sheep nephew two kindly old grannies are transformed into demons who proceed to gorily knock-off their greedy relatives.

Actors : Christian Ruché, Miou-Miou, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...

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 : Lyudmila Zaytseva, Yuriy Nazarov, Natalya Negoda, 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 ...