Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Natalya Buzko, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Sergei Popov,
Directors : Kira Muratova,

In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical ...

Actors : Kari Sorvali, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Tiina Björkman, Kim Gunell,
Directors : Olli Soinio,

A female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as ...

Actors : Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Hanna Schygulla, Christine Fersen,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly ...

Actors : Loes Luca, Peter Tuinman, Renée Soutendijk, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Juan Echanove, Verónica Forqué,
Directors : Fernando Colomo,

A girl, who lives together with her cousin who earns some money by dealing and her boyfriend who is a policeman, is regularly transporting some drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of ...

Actors : Susan Blakely, John Saxon, John Schuck, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Michael Fischa,

The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown, Christopher Cazenove,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Deborah Dutch, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Gail Harris, Melissa Moore,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorised by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, ...

Actors : Aurore Prieto, Hélène Alexandridis, Clémence Massart-Weit, Catherine Mouchet,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the ...

Actors : Henriëtte Tol, Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Cox Habbema,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other ...

Actors : Marko Todorovic, Nebojsa Bakocevic, Relja Basic, Gala Videnovic,
Directors : Jovan Acin,

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for ...

Actors : Rekha, Sonu Walia, Kader Khan, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Rakesh Roshan,

A man marries a rich widow for her money and tries to murder her but she survives, gets a new face due to plastic surgery and returns for revenge.

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ...

Actors : Aida Turturro, Roger Rignack, Ron Eldard, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Nancy Savoca,

Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears ...

Actors : Artur Albrecht, Karina Fallenstein, Volker Spengler, Susanne Bredehöft,
Directors : Christoph Schlingensief,

In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them ...

Actors : Richard Ng, Michelle Yeoh, Lowell Lo, Tung-Shing Yee,
Directors : David Chung,

Action film about Chinese resistance after Japanese invasion in 1930's

Actors : Todd Boyce, Bruno Lawrence, Kylie Minogue, Charlie Schlatter,
Directors : Chris Thomson,

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.

Actors : W.D. Mochtar, Sofia W.D., Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a ...