Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Yasushi Yokoyama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Norio Nishikawa,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Chie Takemoto is a small dependable girl, who lives in Osaka with her dad. She has to goals - to get her troublesome father, who runs a tavern, some work and then get him to make up with her mother, who left him.

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 : Line Arlien-Søborg, Jesper Klein, Merete Voldstedlund, Carsten Jørgensen,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends...

Actors : Julie Bataille, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Zabou Breitman,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

Actors : Danitza Kingsley, Mindi Miller, Penelope Reed, Joseph Whipp,
Directors : Alejandro Sessa,

An epic from the dark ages about the legendary lost tribe of warrior women! The girls fly into danger, come up against fierce tribes, fall prey to sorcery, put to rest a family rivalry of ...

Actors : Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Lepa Brena, Jovan Radovanovic, Lazar Ristovski,
Directors : Stanko Crnobrnja,

The false story in the newspaper about the marriage of Lepa Brena to wealthy Australians, they will try to take advantage of various types to check the news and to get a good salary and a bet that even some fairly well and get rich.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen,
Directors : Robert Mandel,

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring ...

Actors : Steve Bond, Robert Wald, Lori Lethin, Debbie Thureson,
Directors : Edwin Brown,

Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love.

Actors : LeeAnne Baker, George Anthony-Rayza, Michael Conte, Jacquie Fitz,
Directors : Bruce Hickey,

Reincarnated "Satanic Witch" from New Amsterdam, circa 1600's comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people.

Actors : Dale Midkiff, Lori Lewis, Debbie Laster, Debra Hunter,
Directors : Henri Sala,

A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

Actors : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Katja Rupé,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ...

Actors : Mitsuru Hirata, Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Chika Takami,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Aging Kamata movie star "Gin-chan" Ginshiro (Morio Kazama) is filming a story about Samurai in Imperial Japan at the start of the Meiji... See full synopsis »

Actors : Brad Wilson, Donna Wilkes, Linda Blair, Tab Hunter,
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 : Ken Yoshizawa, Ayako Ishii, Seira Kitagawa, Megumi Ozawa,
Directors : Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu,

A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors.

Actors : Sarah Jessica Parker, Rick Weber, Nancy Addison, Tom Shea,
Directors : Robert Wiemer,

Young Lori Anderson lost her father in a plane crash. While her mother appears to be picking up the pieces of her life, Lori isn't. She is resentful of every decision that her mother makes ...

Actors : Dominique Sanda, Lautaro Murúa, Assumpta Serna, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The ...

Actors : Halil Demirler, Damla Coskunoglu, Müjde Ar, Savas Basar,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

The revenge of a cheated girl.

Actors : Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Dmitriy Maryanov, Marina Neyolova,
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 : Ana Simic, Milena Dravic, Branka Katic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Mihailo Vukobratovic,

A divorcee and her two teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.

Actors : Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Ohana, Irene Papas, Oliver Wehe,
Directors : Ruy Guerra,

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in ...