Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A critique of the role of the male in modern Italian society and has demonstrated the possibility of a form of 'female bonding' between women who live, by choice, in a world without men

Actors : Donald Moffat, Tess Harper, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning,
Directors : Sam Shepard,

After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.

Actors : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Te-Lo Mai, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

When you combine "Kung-fu" Liu Chia-liang with the greatest kung-fu film character of all time, Huang Fei-hung, you get one of the finest "pure" kung-fu films ever made, with martial arts mastery in every scene.

Actors : Chrissie Cotterill, Elizabeth Edmonds, Amanda York, Kate Ingram,
Directors : Mai Zetterling,

Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured ...

Actors : Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Sam Freed, Boyd Gaines,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

A journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder.

Actors : Eddie Deezen, Britt Ekland, Tom Shell, Tim Conway Jr.,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A trio of geeks go to Hollywood to make a movie and are bored one night so they get some hookers to have some sex. Unfortunately, the hookers like to drink blood.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

Actors : Rick Edwards, Barbara De Rossi, Ronn Moss, Zeudi Araya Cristaldi,
Directors : Giacomo Battiato,

Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Colin Baumgartner, Louis Guzzo,
Directors : Christopher Monger,

A former vaudevillian magician (MacLaine) moves her straight-laced niece (Garr) and her two mischievous children to a small town. When the two kids get in trouble with a neighbor for ...

Actors : Marília Pêra, Geraldine Smith, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, ...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Serrault, Elisabeth Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look ...

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Actors : Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce,
Directors : Peter Frazer-Jones,

Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel - whatever the cost. However, a shady businessman mistakes George for a hit man.

Actors : Alberto Di Stasio, Fabio Sartor, Francesca Topi, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Piero Schivazappa,

Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.

Actors : Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Daniel James, Mark Powley,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

Five shipwrecked English teenagers take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is, it's early summer, and soon enough, even the walls themselves are striking out against them...

Actors : Mircea Diaconu, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Draga Olteanu Matei, Octavian Cotescu,
Directors : Virgil Calotescu,

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want ...

Actors : Lou Babin, Benoît Dagenais, Charlotte Laurier, Julien Poulin,
Directors : Pierre Falardeau,

At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary,...

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.