Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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.

Actors : Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, James Carroll, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Robert Deubel,

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.

Actors : Catherine Hickland, Franc Luz, Penelope Windust, Jimmie F. Skaggs,

A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her.

Actors : Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Michael Winner,

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ...

Actors : Doug Wright, Cynthia Rothrock, Keith Cooke, Richard Norton,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is ...

Actors : Nonna Mordyukova, Ivan Bortnik, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.

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 : Cynthia Rothrock, Hoi Mang, Michelle Yeoh, John Sham,
Directors : Corey Yuen,

Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an ...

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Cosimo Cinieri, Olga Karlatos, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.

Actors : Vanni Corbellini, Daria Nicolodi, David Brandon, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally ...

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it ...

Actors : Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Vincent Gardère, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.

Actors : Cindy Beal, Elizabeth Kaitan, Brinke Stevens, Don Scribner,
Directors : Ken Dixon,

Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls ...

Actors : David Campbell, Marcia Karr, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior,
Directors : David A. Prior,

Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.

Actors : David Wysocki, Lynda Day George, Mary Beth McDonough, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.

Actors : Marjoe Gortner, Norman Burton, 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 : Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Katarzyna Laniewska, Ewa Kasprzyk, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Roman Zaluski,

A country girl Kasia Solska is forced by her family to marry the man she finds unattractive. She secretly gets to university, escapes from her village to Warsaw and starts working as a babysitter there.

Actors : Bettina Bush, Pat Fraley, Robbie Lee, Peter Cullen,

Rainbow Brite must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Orson Welles, Pia Zadora, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.

Actors : Anuradha Patel, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Ram Mohan,
Directors : Gulzar,

Mahendra is in love with Maya and would like to marry her. But Maya is a woman of the 20th century, who does not believe in marriage, but would like to continue having a relationship. ...