Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Ian Charleson,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden, Sarah Patterson,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine and she has a disturbing dream involving wolves which appears to take place in the woods visible from her bedroom window.

Actors : Larry Flash Jenkins, Phil Rubenstein, Cassandra Peterson, Damita Jo Freeman,
Directors : James Signorelli,

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle who wants her burned at the stake.

Actors : Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott, Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

Four teenage friends spend the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Anne Pitoniak, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Actors : Fred Ward, Bette Midler, Edward Herrmann, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Jim Abrahams,

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family ...

Actors : Donald F. Muhich, Arsenio Hall, Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer,

A spoof 1950s science fiction movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches concerning late night television.

Actors : Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, David Labiosa, Ron Silver, George Coe,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

Actors : Cleavon Little, Karen Kopins, Lauren Hutton, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Howard Storm,

A vampire Countess needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall.

Actors : Billy Jayne, Toni Hudson, Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner,
Directors : Lisa Gottlieb,

Terry Griffith has got it all -- looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend, and an article that's a shoo-in to win her a summer internship at the local newspaper... or so she thinks....

Actors : Divine, Edith Massey, Tab Hunter, David Samson,
Directors : John Waters,

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.

Actors : Lainie Kazan, Ray Wise, John Cusack, Meredith Salenger,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

Actors : Amira Chemakhi, Sylvie Richez, Vincent Gauthier, Marie Rivière,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...

Actors : Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baishô, Akira Terao, Toshie Negishi,

A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Sigourney Weaver, John Omirah Miluwi, Julie Harris,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Elaine Stritch, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : Woody Allen,

At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.