Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Inna Churikova, Svetlana Ryabova, Mariya Golubkina, Yelena Bogdanova,
Directors : Vyacheslav Krishtofovich,

In a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses ...

Actors : Gianfranco Manfredi, Gilla Novak, Lorenzo Lena, Monica Guerritore,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.

Actors : Béláné Csóka, Carol Harrison, Ágnes Kamondy, László Földes,
Directors : János Xantus,

A pianist falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this situation won't stand.

Actors : Kari Sorvali, Mari Rantasila, Åke Lindman, Jari Järvimaa,
Directors : Lauri Törhönen,

Two small-time crooks take off to Florida to escape unpaid taxes and failure.

Actors : Viktor Kremlyov, Mayya Bulgakova, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Lyudmila Efimenko,
Directors : Yuri Ilyenko,

Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as ...

Actors : Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Natalya Gundareva, Tamara Syomina, Mher Mkrtchyan,
Directors : Samson Samsonov,

Middle-aged woman organizes a marriage agency directly in the female dormitory with mustachioed commandant.

Actors : Juraj Kukura, Josef Abrhám, Hana Zagorová, Waldemar Matuska,
Directors : Zdenek Podskalský,

Actors : Mahmut Cevher, Talat Bulut, Aliye Rona, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Türkan Soray,

Actors : Adrienne Pierce, Tanya Roberts, Hal Orlandini, Julie Pop,
Directors : Ami Artzi,

Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

Actors : Nami Misaki, Gorô Kataoka, Ayako Ôta, Tsutomu Akashi,
Directors : Kôyû Ohara,

Three crazed rapists hijack a school bus and proceed to terrorize and rape all the teachers and students they feel are attractive enough.

Actors : Jack Taylor, Jean-René Gossart, Karin Schubert, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Pierre Chevalier,

A squad of female mercenaries take on an organization called Space Clean, which is dedicated to stopping space exploration.

Actors : Peter Kern, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein, Ina Blum,
Directors : Monika Treut,

A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.

Actors : Tim Choate, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Anne Baxter,
Directors : James Ivory,

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

Actors : Michael McKeever, Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Linda Singer, Jeremy Ratchford,
Directors : Jim Hanley,

K.C. and Jo are two hardened female ex-cons who decide to build a marina on a lake in backwoods Texas to start a life for themselves, only to be hassled by the redneck locals who do not ...

Actors : Lili Monori, György Bánffy, Mari Töröcsik, Miklós B. Székely,
Directors : Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács,

Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.