Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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 : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Katja Rupé, Jean-Pierre Beauviala,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Rita Tushingham, Keanu Reeves, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Maurício do Valle, Sandra Graffi, Elizabeth Hartmann, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.