Best Female Lead movies of 1990

Actors : Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins,
Directors : John Erman,

Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny......

Actors : Francesca Neri, Óscar Ladoire, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, María Barranco,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

The story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.

Actors : Frances McDormand, Mai Zetterling, Brad Dourif, Brian Cox,
Directors : Ken Loach,

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ...

Actors : Hugues Quester, Eloïse Bennett, Anne Teyssèdre, Florence Darel,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy...

Actors : Michelle Reis, Jacky Cheung, Joey Wang, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Siu-Tung Ching,

In this installment of a phenomenal saga of the super natural, four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. Outrageous special ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Jami Gertz,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

A frustrated woman's life gets even more frustrating once she gets into an affair with a man who suffers a fatal heart attack after their fling.

Actors : Lena Stolze, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram, Hans-Reinhard Müller,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Pete Lee-Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to...

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Actors : Susanna Makay, Nicole A. Gyony, Hajni Brown, Celia Farago,
Directors : Léon Paul De Bruyn,

Bizzare, often perverse yarn about nurses in a metropolitan hospital who seduce then murder male patients.

Actors : Rainbow Harvest, William Sanderson, Yvonne De Carlo, Karen Black,
Directors : Marina Sargenti,

A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Stan Shaw, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Rockne S. O'Bannon,

Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with ...