Best Female Lead movies of 1980

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.

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 : Gary Sweet, Jenny Neumann, Nina Landis, Max Phipps,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy ...

Actors : Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

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 : Stratford Johns, Brian Murphy, Norman Eshley, 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 : 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 : Dieter Montag, Heide Kipp, Alexander Lang, Renate Krößner,

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life ...

Actors : Mario Cutini, Paola Corazzi, Tom Felleghy, Zora Ulla Keslerová,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don ...

Actors : Yelena Khopshonosova, Olga Ozeretskovskaya, Nadezhda Gorshkova, Vladimir Shevelkov,

Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather...

Actors : Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali, Malisa Longo, Nadia Cassini,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Actors : Angelos Antonopoulos, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Danis Katranidis, Haritini Karolou,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

This is a story of two lawyer brothers, their half brother, their wives and children. Siddheshwari, wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela, ...

Actors : Matti Turunen, Eikka Lehtonen, Irma Huntus, Leena Suomu,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

In a small Finnish Lapland community, Milka, an innocent 14-year-old girl lives with her mother, misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. For haymaking, they employ a ...

Actors : Isabelle Goguey, Michel Flavius, Charlotte de Turckheim, Betty Beckers,
Directors : Raphaël Delpard,

Young Martine begins working as a nurse at Deadlock House, a secluded grande retirement home, but from the beginning not everything is as it seems, strange residents each with their own ...

Actors : John Shea, Helen Mirren, Murray Salem, Paul Angelis,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Beaty is a prostitute working out of a high-class London cabaret where Emory is a technician. They begin an affair encumbered by her job, his lack of money, and their pasts: Beaty has a ...

Actors : Jade Hsu, Adam Cheng, Qiqi Chen, Norman Chu,
Directors : Patrick Tam,

Actors : Agnes Horvath, György Cserhalmi, Udo Kier, Patricia Adriani,
Directors : Gábor Bódy,

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 140-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche...

Actors : Darejan Khachidze, Vakhtang Panchulidze, Kakhi Kavsadze, Givi Berikashvili,

Parallel love stories of young dressmaker Makvala and other dwellers of Kakheti village, where she was sent for mission during busy vintage season.

Actors : Nildo Parente, Maria Lúcia Dahl, Carlo Mossy, Alba Valeria,
Directors : Victor di Mello,

Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her ...