Best Female Lead movies of 1981

Actors : Bob Musak, Richard Nunalee, Denise Blanke, Mary Jane Shippen,
Directors : L. Ron Hubbard,

Procedural crime thriller written and directed by renowned author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Carole Bouquet, Ida Di Benedetto, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

Actors : Aris Retsos, Betty Livanou, Giorgos Siskos, Dora Volanaki,
Directors : Giorgos Panousopoulos,

From the opposite apartment, a young man observes the daily life of an unsuspected woman. Will she ever know his existence?

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Danis Katranidis, Faidon Georgitsis, Kaiti Lambropoulou,
Directors : Takis Vougiouklakis,

Actors : Anna Alexiadis, Bo Derek, Peter Hooten, Faidon Georgitsis,
Directors : John Derek,

16-year old Anastasia and her adopted brother Damir live on a Greek island with their pervy grandfather. She dreams about having a large antique bathtub and he dreams about running a sea-side resort. They begin to fall for each other.

Actors : Thierry Lhermitte, Isabelle Adjani, Antoinette Moya, Bernard Crombey,
Directors : Jean-Loup Hubert,

Story of a cartoonist who decides to get married and have a family.

Actors : Angela Winkler, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

A 31 year-old designer moves to Paris in search of steady work but finds only dead ends, harassments, and broken promises.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Katja Bienert, Raquel Evans, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Betsy Norman is a happy assistant at a luxurious Spanish hotel. Shiela, the hotel owner, caters for all wishes of her clientele with another lucrative business, the brothel "Rio Amore" ...

Actors : Viktor Kremlyov, Mayya Bulgakova, Lyudmila Efimenko, Ivan Mykolaichuk,
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 : Tsunehiko Watase, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri,
Directors : Shinji Sômai,

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Chris Robinson, Kathleen Nolan,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

Actors : Diana Musca, Ernest Maftei, Elena Dragoi, Florina Cercel,
Directors : Gheorghe Naghi,

Adapted from Mihail Sadoveanu's 1926 novel. Lizuca is a 6 year old girl whose mother died and whose father is married to a nasty woman. She has to leave her grandparents, who she lived with...

Actors : Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Jennifer Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal,
Directors : Aparna Sen,

After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a ...

Actors : John Randolph, Lucinda Dooling, Marie Windsor, Mel Novak,
Directors : David Sheldon,

A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.

Actors : Adam Ferency, Boguslaw Linda, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Barbara Grabowska,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker...

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

Actors : Monte Markham, Arlene Golonka, Tony Lo Bianco, Karen Black,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.

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

Actors : Viktor Proskurin, Evgeniy Lazarev, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Efremov,
Directors : Yuri Yegorov,

After 20 years classmates get together and discuss their unfulfilled dreams and unmet goals.