Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Hannele Lauri,

Actors : Ross O'Donovan, Margo Lee, Jo Kennedy, Max Cullen,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Sudhir Mishra, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

When a starlet is murdered on a film location, her detective brother arrives there to solve the mystery.

Actors : Jánosné Bráda, Róbert Koltai, Kyri Ambrus, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Gabriel Byrne, Angela Goodwin, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Peter Del Monte,

Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably ...

Actors : Toni Berger, Manuela Denz, Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Actors : Gülsen Bubikoglu, Müjdat Gezen, Perran Kutman, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Sulukule the gypsy district. Three couples get married in Sulukule - Gullu with Bayram, Sevim with Bekir and Emin with Sabahat. They are homeless and need to earn money somehow. Women sell ...

Actors : Lou Doillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathieu Demy, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Mary-Jane asks, "Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?" She's divorced with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, ...

Actors : Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Predrag Lakovic, Snezana Niksic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Actors : James Wilder, Virginia Madsen, Kay E. Kuter, Richard Cox,
Directors : Ron Link,

A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment. Over a course of...

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

Actors : Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile, Jennifer Runyon, William Lauer,
Directors : David Hess,

A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonio Cantafora, Paulo Goulart,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways...

Actors : Yaseen Khan, Monique Gabrielle, Crofton Hardester, Dana Burns Westburg,

[American version.] Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film Festival. Her rotten luck continues when the dictator of...

Actors : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

Actors : John Aprea, Bruce Penhall, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

On their way to make an air delivery, two drug enforcement agents will need to do an emergency landing on a remote island, rumoured to have a gold treasure.

Actors : Wendy Schaal, Lorna Luft, Lisa Hartman, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Hy Averback,

Remake of the 1960 movie of the same name has four college coeds; virginal Jennie, outgoing Carole, wealthy and spoiled Southern belle Sandra, and horny Laurie traveling to Fort Lauderdale ...

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Neide Ribeiro, Maria Stella Splendore,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.