Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Lisa Schmidt, Debi Thibeault, Simone Reyes, Karen Nielsen,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

A group of High School girls with guns go on a killing spree. They are intent on ridding the world of scummy men.

Actors : Paolo Bonacelli, Ángela Molina, Harvey Keitel, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow) she is saved from being raped by a Camorra (organized crime) boss when the gangster is suddenly ...

Actors : Valérie Allain, Jean-Noël Brouté, Sophie Carle, Franck Dubosc,
Directors : Michel Lang,

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 : Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Kaipu Cohen, Marina Rossetti,
Directors : Eli Cohen,

A ten year old girl spends her summer with her overly protective mother, a mentally scarred holocaust survivor, while hopefully trying to find her real father in the newly established state of Israel.

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 : Moira Sinise, Christopher Cazenove, Timothy Bottoms, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

When an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a stranger. Coincidentally, the city is being plagued by a serial killer who uses this method to ...

Actors : Þórhallur Sigurðsson, Sólveig Arnarsdóttir, Gestur Einar Jónasson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir,
Directors : Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir,

When her husband breaks his arm, Stella is forced to go in his place with his Swedish colleague on a fishing trip. Unbeknownst to her, she picks up the wrong man on the airport; a man ...

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Trini Alvarado, Lee Richardson, John Bedford Lloyd,
Directors : Steve Gomer,

Summers at The Lorraine have been a blast, but the guests and staff have saved the best...for last.

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 : Tiana Alexandra, Rod Steiger, David Dukes, Brian Thompson,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

A cop goes undercover in to infiltrate a drug ring as Cinderella Pu, a Chinese dancer with a unique martial arts style. An agent, who is actually at the center of the ring, is attracted by Pu and claims he can make her a star.

Actors : Paul Hébert, R.H. Thomson, Julie Vincent, Monique Spaziani,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.

Actors : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...

Actors : Toula Stathopoulou, Giorgos Agiovlassitis, Anny Loulou, Stratis Tsopanellis,
Directors : Tonia Marketaki,

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis ...

Actors : Carol Alt, Elliott Gould, Pierre Cosso, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she's living the ...

Actors : Kara Hui, Alex Man, Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu,
Directors : Taylor Wong,

The Buddha's Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Ku, a blind recluse living in a cave, knows its secret, which proves to be as much a blessing as a curse as it attracts all manner of mayhem.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Margot Kidder, Joseph Hacker, Ted Danson,
Directors : Alan Sharp,

Margo hilariously portrayed by Margot Kidder arriving in Mexico to see ailing father who soon dies; but not before telling her of a stolen treasure buried years ago in a ghost-town. Margo ...

Actors : Howard Knight, William J. Kulzer, Melanie Coll, Judi Trevor,
Directors : Eric Louzil,

A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.

Actors : Massimo Boldi, Renato Pozzetto, Felice Andreasi, Ornella Muti,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.

Actors : Amelia Shankley, Craig T. Nelson, Rocco Sisto, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Adam Brooks,

The faithful little girl must brave the forest and the big, bad wolf to bring her grandmother a basket of goodies in this musical version of the classic fairytale.