Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Dorottya Udvaros, Sándor Gáspár, Kati Lajtai, Róbert Koltai,
Directors : János Rózsa,

The rather surrealistic story of a middle-class family who seem to communicate with each other mainly by chalking messages on the kitchen blackboard, while the young son observes every ...

Actors : Tatsuya Aoki, Minako Ogawa, Kayo Kiyomoto, Kaori Aso,
Directors : Yasuaki Uegaki,

Unlucky women are imprisoned in a warehouse in preparation for being later sold into slavery.

Actors : Michael Berryman, Arte Johnson, Virginia Mayo, Karen Black,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A strange woman runs a boardinghouse whose tenants--mostly misfits and others who won't be missed--begin dying off or simply disappearing. She still cashes their government benefit checks ...

Actors : Vanessa Alves, Clarisse Abujamra, Irene Stefânia, Betty Faria,
Directors : Carlos Reichenbach,

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons, John Meillon, Lucinda Jones,
Directors : Henri Safran,

A loving family's world is shattered by an old friend's arrival, carrying a dark secret.

Actors : Erik Wedersøe, Börje Ahlstedt, Søren Østergaard, Line Kruse,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven-year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her ...

Actors : Fanny Lauzier, Denis Forest, Félix-Antoine Leroux, Marina Orsini,
Directors : Jean-Claude Lord,

On their arrival in Mingan,on the north coast of the St-Lawrence's Gulf, a couple notice a young girl floating in the ocean. Thinking saving her, they discover that, in fact, she's able to ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Anthony Chan, Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Taylor Wong,

Lesile is a young guy that uses the MTR everyday, and one day, he sees a beautiful lady (Maggie Cheung) on the train and likes her immediately. On the other hand, he also knows a tomboy (...

Actors : Barbara Cupisti, Pietro Genuardi, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Lorenzo Majnoni,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Actors : Mohsen Mohieddin, Hamdy Ahmed, Dalida, Shouweikar,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Cairo 1947: the cholera epidemic in full swing. The beautiful Lavandiere Saddika lives with her paralyzed husband and her little son Hassan in a basement. She dreams of Prince Charming and ...

Actors : Paul L. Smith, John Vernon, Alex Cord, Nina van Pallandt,

A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same...

Actors : André Wilms, Nathalie Cardone, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : François Dupeyron,

A woman thrown out of a car by her husband and a surgeon repairing his car are meeting at a highway rest stop. Both are slowly coming closer.

Actors : John Matshikiza, Nadine Uwampa, Trevor Howard, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Marion Hänsel,

A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo, I-Chen Ko,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Actors : Cristina Pereira, Brandão Filho, Betty Faria, Daniel Filho,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

Fausta is a survivor who dreams of building a house on land she's buying on the installment plan. Meanwhile she lives in a one-room tin-roofed hovel with her idle husband, João, and she ...

Actors : Melanie Kilgour, James Stevens, Thom Schioler, Frank Wilson,

In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.

Actors : Raj Babbar, Anupam Kher, Rekha, Aruna Irani,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Din Dayal Sharma works as a Head Clerk and lives with his wife, Godavari; 3 sons Vijay, his wife Uma; Shiva and Vidyasagar; and a daughter named Rajni. Their standard of living is ...

Actors : Jennifer Delora, Jerry Butler, Veronica Hart, Jamie Gillis,
Directors : Chuck Vincent,

A woman kills a burglar in self-defense. The experience so unnerves her she begins to imagine that everyone is trying to harm her and begins to kill anybody who comes near her.

Actors : Carey Zuris, Rick Gianasi, Natalie O'Connell, Teresa Farley,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.

Actors : Paul de Leeuw, John Leddy, Jasperina de Jong, Heidi Arts,
Directors : Ine Schenkkan,