Best Female Lead movies of 1986

Modern Girls(1986)

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Daphne Zuniga, Clayton Rohner,
Directors : Jerry Kramer,

A pair of women decide to prank their roommate's nerdy blind date after she stands him up, but end up developing a friendship with him after their practical joke sends them on an all-night odyssey through the 1980s club scene.

Shojo no harawata(1986)

Actors : Saeko Kizuki, Megumi Kawashima, Naomi Hagio, Osamu Tsuruoka,
Directors : Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu,

Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse.

Mélo(1986)

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it ...

Duet for One(1986)

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...

Nobody's Fool(1986)

Actors : Jim Youngs, Mare Winningham, Eric Roberts, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Evelyn Purcell,

Cassie has a miserable job in a bar, is lonely and depressed. Her boyfriend left her when she told him that she's pregnant. After several failed suicide attempts, she'd given away her baby ...

Thérèse(1986)

Actors : Hélène Alexandridis, Aurore Prieto, Clémence Massart-Weit, Catherine Mouchet,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the ...

Cactus(1986)

Actors : Monica Maughan, Robert Menzies, Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Paul Cox,

A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other. Is sight the only way to see the world?

Max mon amour(1986)

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.

Pikkupojat(1986)

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Hannele Lauri,

Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan(1986)

Actors : Marina Vlady, Claudine Auger, Fabrice Josso, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Gianfranco Mingozzi,

The film describes the sexual awakening and adventures of teen-aged Roger during the time of the outbreak of WWI.

Working Girls(1986)

Actors : Deborah Banks, Louise Smith, Amanda Goodwin, Ellen McElduff,
Directors : Lizzie Borden,

A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch ...

Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar(1986)

Actors : Thales Pan Chacon, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Arnaldo Jabor,

Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.

Dream Lover(1986)

Actors : Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, Ben Masters, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected...

Jûichi-nin iru!(1986)

Actors : Hideyuki Tanaka, Akira Kamiya, Toshio Furukawa, Michiko Kawai,

Cosmo Academy has set a test for ten of its applicants to survive on a spaceship for 2 months. But there is an eleventh member aboard.

Evil Laugh(1986)

Actors : Jody Gibson, Steven Baio, Tony Griffin, Ashlyn Gere,
Directors : Dominick Brascia,

A group of Med students fix up an old house over a weekend. Where a mass murder occurred 10 years earlier. Mayhem ensues.

The Naked Cage(1986)

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.

Speriamo che sia femmina(1986)

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

Prison Ship(1986)

Actors : Sandy Brooke, Marya Gant, Ross Hagen, Suzy Stokey,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.

La signora della notte(1986)

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.

Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà(1986)

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Evelyne Bouix,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very ...