Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : Sophie Marceau, Anne E. Curry, Adam Coleman Howard, Toni Basil,
Directors : Bernard Schmitt,

A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is the victim of a hoax.

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 : 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 : Victoria Sands, Kathy Horner, Jan Stychalsky, Andrew Campbell,
Directors : Attila Bertalan,

A civilian and a soldier become unlikely allies in this allegorical examination of friendship and the evils of war. Filmed in Quebec, Canada.

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 : Christine Amor, Andrew Booth, Linda Blair, Tony Bonner,
Directors : Alec Mills,

Young nurse investigates suspicious deaths in a psychiatric ward.

Actors : Esko Salminen, Satu Silvo, Maija-Liisa Marton, Rauni Luoma,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

Actors : Füsun Demirel, Mine Çayiroglu, Tarik Akan, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Thales Pan Chacon, Claudia Ohana, José de Abreu, Luiza Falcão,
Directors : Fábio Barreto,

A young girl is raised as a man by an old cowboy. Her purpose is to kill her parents' murderers and go to the sea.

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 : Peggy Ann Wood, Deborah Kerr, Ronald Russell, Daisy Bell,
Directors : Mary McMurray,

A Englishwoman and her Indian neighbor bond while fixing up her Imperial-style garden. Meanwhile, present day concerns and painful memories intrude.

Actors : Blackie Dammett, Henry Darrow, Wings Hauser, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Worth Keeter,

An ex-cop-turned-bounty hunter goes after a crazed killer.

Actors : Cengiz Sezici, Osman Cavci, Hüseyin Kutman, Hülya Avsar,
Directors : Ibrahim Tatlises,

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 : Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

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 : M.R. Murphy, Dennis Cunningham, Catherine Dee, William Dame,
Directors : Don Nardo,

STUFF STEPHANIE IN THE INCINERATOR is the twisted tale of a husband and wife, Jared and Stephanie, who delve into the demented fantasy games of the super wealthy.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Joachim Serreau, Nathalie Baye, Félicie Pasotti,
Directors : Nicole Garcia,

Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked ...

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.