Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai, Irina Brook, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Actors : Maurício do Valle, Elizabeth Hartmann, Sandra Graffi, Lígia de Paula,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves. Some of the women escape, but are pursued into the jungle by their captors. The ...

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Mikhail Rozanov, Aleksandr Zbruev, Aleksandr Abdulov,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

In fact, people who then appear around Mitya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Actors : Mio Takaki, Kevin McNally, Gudrun Landgrebe, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Actors : Brad Wilson, Donna Wilkes, Tab Hunter, Linda Blair,
Directors : Joe Tornatore,

A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through ...

Actors : Lepa Brena, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic, Svetislav 'Bule' Goncic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Story of Lepa Brena, and her journey and adventures during one of her tours through Yugoslavia.

Actors : Maximilian Wolters, Laura Gemser, Christian Anders, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Christian Anders,

The young daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie "free love" cult called "The Children of Light" by the blond boyfriend of the cult's leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman...

Actors : Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Marina Neyolova, Dmitriy Maryanov,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them ...

Actors : Stefaniya Stanyuta, Leonid Kryuk, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the ...

Actors : Joe Cortese, Talia Shire, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Medford,
Directors : Gordon Willis,

Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns ...

Actors : Clive Revill, Helen Hunt, Aileen Quinn, John Paragon,
Directors : Jackson Hunsicker,

Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."

Actors : Martin Walz, Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Curt Bois,
Directors : Markus Imhoof,

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ...

Actors : Grace De Capitani, Claude Rich, Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Sardou,
Directors : Didier Kaminka,

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Rita Tushingham, Olivia d'Abo, Jessica Steen,
Directors : Paul Lynch,

Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnasics tournaments anymore. Shattered dreams. She lives with her mother and bad ...

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemev, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.

Actors : Morgan Fairchild, Tahnee Welch, Kenny Baker, David Holliday,
Directors : David Irving,

Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Actors : Vanessa Hidalgo, Helga Liné, Jeffrey Healey, Alfred Lucchetti,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the...

Actors : Makio Inoue, Keiko Han, Fumi Hirano, Maki Carousel,

Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.

Actors : Barry Tubb, Kelly Lynch, Larry Poindexter, Ron Sloan,
Directors : Joe Gayton,

A woman tries to kill herself and ends up in the hospital. She escapes and wanders into the desert. There she comes upon a roadside bar where she gets extremely drunk with the locals and a ...