Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Daniel James, Mark Powley,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

Five shipwrecked English teenagers take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is, it's early summer, and soon enough, even the walls themselves are striking out against them...

Actors : David Carradine, Jacqueline Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Actors : Eddie Deezen, Britt Ekland, Tom Shell, Tim Conway Jr.,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A trio of geeks go to Hollywood to make a movie and are bored one night so they get some hookers to have some sex. Unfortunately, the hookers like to drink blood.

Actors : Kevin O'Connor, Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed.

Actors : Lou Babin, Benoît Dagenais, Charlotte Laurier, Julien Poulin,
Directors : Pierre Falardeau,

At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary,...

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 : Gülsen Bubikoglu, Müjdat Gezen, Münir Özkul, Perran Kutman,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Actors : Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Stephen Gyllenhaal,

During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Chip Zien, Kit Le Fever, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. One day she witnesses a murder being committed by top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She decides to blackmail ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

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 : Donald Moffat, Tess Harper, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning,
Directors : Sam Shepard,

After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Auclair, Michel Serrault, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Francis Girod,

In Paris, a women's bag, which contains an embarrassing letter from the french president, is stolen.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Maria Lúcia Dahl, Regina Casé, Vera Abelha,
Directors : Arnaldo Jabor,

Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Colin Baumgartner, Louis Guzzo,
Directors : Christopher Monger,

A former vaudevillian magician (MacLaine) moves her straight-laced niece (Garr) and her two mischievous children to a small town. When the two kids get in trouble with a neighbor for ...

Actors : Gary Sweet, Jenny Neumann, Max Phipps, Nina Landis,
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 : Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Sam Freed, Boyd Gaines,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

A journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder.

Actors : Martha Byrne, Mark Patton, Donna Mitchell, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Robert Wiemer,

Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, several strange things begin to happen. A ...

Actors : Mariangela Giordano, Aldo Sambrell, Jacqueline Dupré, Joe Davers,
Directors : Mario Bianchi,

In the crypt of the remote castle of the Aguilars lies the recently-deceased body of Maria. Her husband Antonio is a jealous bully, his mute brother Ignazio is in a wheelchair peeping on ...