Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Michael Ontkean, Beverly D'Angelo, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Amy Holden Jones,

Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy ...

Actors : Sam Neill, André Maranne, Meryl Streep, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Gail Neely, Dawn Wildsmith, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner,
Directors : Peter George,

When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.

Actors : Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

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 : William R. Moses, Kathy Ireland, Richard Haines, Don Michael Paul,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

A nerdy teen-age girl goes looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization.

Actors : Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Jim Sharman,

Janet and Brad become contestants on a game show... but wind up as captives instead.

Actors : Arliss Howard, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Paul Brickman,

A mother of two sons finds life considerably difficult on her own after the death of her beloved husband. Due to debt she must move them to Baltimore, and deal with the hardships and all ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ...

Actors : Alfre Woodard, James Russo, Diana Scarwid, Farrah Fawcett,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.

Actors : David Seaman, Eileen Brennan, Cory Crow, Tami Erin,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old ...

Actors : Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy,
Directors : Lizzie Borden,

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of ...

Actors : Elizabeth Cox, David Byrnes, Renée Estevez, Dan Hicks,
Directors : Scott Spiegel,

The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

Actors : René van 't Hof, Tatjana Simic, Nelly Frijda, Huub Stapel,
Directors : Dick Maas,

A rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.

Actors : Suzanna Love, Ron James, Nicholas Love, John Carradine,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...

Actors : Stéphane Freiss, Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Macha Méril,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.