Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Brooke Shields, Diana Scarwid, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get...

Actors : Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.

Actors : Ana Patricia Rojo, Leonor Llausás, Carmen Stein, Elsa María Gutiérrez,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.

Actors : Aleksandr Abdulov, Tatyana Vasileva, Irina Muravyova, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Gerald Bezhanov,

Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Rajinikanth, Sridevi, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Pankaj Parashar,

Twins separated at infancy are brought up differently. One weak, one strong. One day, they end up at each others house. Their life is not the same anymore.

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 : Antonio Mayans, Antonio de Cabo, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.

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 : Jill Clayburgh, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois, Max Gail,
Directors : Bruce Malmuth,

Two children are kidnapped and held for ransom by a madman. Soon, however, the children's father begins to suspect that their mother may possibly have had something to do with the crime.

Actors : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...

Actors : John Terlesky, Dedee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack, Susanna Hoffs,
Directors : Tamar Simon Hoffs,

Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she's found....

Actors : Michelle Meyrink, William O'Leary, Wallace Shawn, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Chuck Martinez,

April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem to spontaneously combust. The only men she meets more then once are firefighters. ...

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 : Crispin Dickson Wendenius, Ellen Demérus, Linda Bergström, Henrik Larsson,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

There are only a handful of children living in Bullarby. This film follows their story through the fall and winter, picking up at the moment "The Children of Noisy Village" finishes.

Actors : Sarah Kendall, Frederick Flynn, Carol Kottenbrook, Alan McRae,
Directors : J.S. Cardone,

Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.

Actors : Jeana Keough, Debra Blee, Val Kline, James Daughton,
Directors : Bud Townsend,

School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the...

Actors : Giulietta Masina, Petra Vancíková, Tobias Hoesl, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

The Feather Fairy lives in the sky and gives snow to the people. She lives with a boy called Jakob, who one day ventures into the human world and falls for a peasant girl.

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 : 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 : Jamie Farr, Savina Gersak, Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Frederico Prosperi,

After being bitten by a radioactive snake, a young man begins to spawn snake-like creatures with a vicious, murdeous nature.