Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Henry Gibson, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, David Hoflin, Dale Reeves,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A mother whose child was killed in a Dingo attack in the Australian outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

Actors : Cher, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as his ...

Actors : Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.

Actors : Randall Batinkoff, Molly Ringwald, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Jeff East, Susan Buckner, Maren Jensen,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

Actors : Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, Dorothée Berryman, Dominique Michel,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

Actors : Lea Thompson, Jerry Levine, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Geneviève Robert,

While attending a singles retreat, two female friends-- one promiscuous, the other unlucky with men-- share their philosophies on love, sex, men, and dating in the wake of the 1980s AIDS epidemic.

Actors : Dean Cameron, Richard Lynch, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Jackie Burroughs, Sunny Besen Thrasher, Georgia Engel,
Directors : Arna Selznick,

The Care Bears watch over a young brother and sister who have lost their trust in humanity. Meanwhile an evil wizard wishes to cover the Earth in concrete.

Actors : Vesa Vierikko, Esko Nikkari, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who...

Actors : Ryo Hiruma, Luis Hostalot, Gonzalo Suárez, Carmen Maura,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

In Madrid, the housewife Gloria lives in a tiny apartment with her husband, the taxi driver and forger Antonio; her lunatic mother-in-law, who is addicted in bottled water and cupcakes; and...

Actors : Marie-Anne Chazel, Anémone, Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Actors : Joe Flood, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Kristen Riter,

A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.

Actors : Donovan Scott, Tanya Roberts, Elizabeth of Toro, Ted Wass,
Directors : John Guillermin,

Sheena grew up in the African wild, raised by a mystical witch woman. When her foster mother is framed for a murder Sheena is forced to flee, helped by her ability to talk to animals and her knowledge of the jungle.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Reb Brown, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan,

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Ricky Paull Goldin, Tricia O'Neil,

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

Actors : Ji Liu, Li Gong, Rujun Ten, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds...