Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Suki Kwan, Ken Tong, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Chia Yung Liu,

Martial arts adventure about a tough FBI cop (Cynthia Rothrock) high-kicking her way to the final showdown with a Chinese Mafia boss.

Actors : Mariko Ishihara, Mari Natsuki, Masanori Sera, Takuzô Kawatani,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After their executions are faked by the authorities, three criminals are forced to become assassins under the Shogun's command

Actors : Susan Barnes, Ione Skye, Maureen O'Sullivan, Joe Morton,
Directors : Fleming B. Fuller,

A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.

Actors : Gordon Press, Lisa Peluso, Corinne Wahl, George Ayer,
Directors : Simon Nuchtern,

A play-based erotic anthology about Manhattan's vibrant, lusty and seedy nightlife and 9 sleazy trysts of the rich and the streetwise New Yorkers. Features Penthouse Pet Corinne Alphen and then unknown Willem Dafoe in a cameo.

Actors : Srividya, Jayaram, Suresh Gopi, Shobana,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

After a serious accident a girl who was hospitalized forgets her past. She stops worrying about her past when she fall in love with a man and finds herself secure with him. But the reality ...

Actors : Liddy Clark, Angela Punch McGregor, Monica Maughan, Drew Forsythe,
Directors : Gil Brealey,

In the 1970s, Jessica Hathaway (Angela Punch McGregor) joins the staff of Brentwood Hospital, a government facility for handicapped children in Melbourne, Australia. One of her patients is ...

Actors : Tom Bell, Kilian McKenna, Patricia Kerrigan, Caroline Milmoe,
Directors : David Wheatley,

After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but ...

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, Barry Primus, David Spielberg,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A woman suffering from amnesia discovers that she is the sole surviving witness to a brutal murder. Although the police can find no clues about any murder, the killers begin to hunt her.

Actors : Geert de Jong, Peter Tuinman, Mirjam Sternheim, Marijke Veugelers,
Directors : Pieter Verhoeff,

Actors : Pat Paulsen, Edward Albert, George Gobel, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Peter Wittman,

Set in the backwoods of the deep south. Young, beautiful Ellie has just witnessed the murder of her father at the hands of her evil step-mother Cora and Cora's three lecherous sons, all ...

Actors : James Russo, Darlanne Fluegel, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer,
Directors : Francis Delia,

A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.

Actors : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Teri Földi, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki,
Directors : Márta Mészáros,

From one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman (Juli) returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it also.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Josema Yuste, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ana Belén,
Directors : José Luis García Sánchez,

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Michel Aumont, Elizabeth Bourgine, Sylvia Zerbib,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Actors : Corinne Touzet, Daniel Ezralow, Béatrice Dalle, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil. ...

Actors : Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Saulius Balandis, Eleonora Korisnaite, Linas Paugis,
Directors : Raimundas Banionis,

This contemporary urban drama tells of a love story, of a girl with a very strong character who fights against the social prejudices, and a young man who wins her heart, and their wedding.

Actors : Milan Mladenovic, Branko Vidakovic, Branislav Lecic, Sonja Savic,
Directors : Milan Zivkovic,

After the death of their sponsor, rock band Zenit falls into a crisis. Thay need to make new arrangments of old songs in only 6 days. There comes to disagreement between band members because of different opinions.

Actors : Thérèse Liotard, Santo Polimeno, Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Actors : Jennifer Schwartz, Kim Pilkington, Hilary Rubens, Janet Housden,
Directors : David Markey,

The rise and fall of an all-girl punk rock band in Hollywood in the 1980s.

Actors : Taiji Tonoyama, Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Fran Rubel Kuzui,

Young female rock singer is not appreciated by her band, gets postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". Takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes ...