Best Female Lead movies of 1986

Hannah and Her Sisters(1986)

Actors : Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Pretty in Pink(1986)

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Molly Ringwald, Annie Potts, Jon Cryer,
Directors : Howard Deutch,

A poor girl must choose between the affections of her doting childhood sweetheart and a rich but sensitive playboy.

Peggy Sue Got Married(1986)

Actors : Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Nicolas Cage, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

Aliens(1986)

Actors : Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Sigourney Weaver,
Directors : James Cameron,

The moon from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

Short Circuit(1986)

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Austin Pendleton, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : John Badham,

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Heartburn(1986)

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Meryl Streep, Jeff Daniels, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at...

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta(1986)

Actors : Anna Paquin, Mark Hamill, Cloris Leachman, James Van Der Beek,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Le rayon vert(1986)

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...

The Morning After(1986)

Actors : Raul Julia, Diane Salinger, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?

Chopping Mall(1986)

Actors : Kelli Maroney, Karrie Emerson, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.

SpaceCamp(1986)

Actors : Lea Thompson, Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott,
Directors : Harry Winer,

The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is accidently launched into orbit.

The Clan of the Cave Bear(1986)

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.

Class of Nuke 'Em High(1986)

Actors : Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard, Pat Ryan,

The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

Armed and Dangerous(1986)

Actors : John Candy, Robert Loggia, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.

Le déclin de l'empire américain(1986)

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.

Flodder(1986)

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.

Extremities(1986)

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.

Absolute Beginners(1986)

Actors : James Fox, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, Eddie O'Connell,
Directors : Julien Temple,

In 1958 London a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.

Slaughter High(1986)

Actors : Donna Yeager, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine Iannaccone, Caroline Munro,

Eight people are invited to their old high school for their ten-year reunion where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.

Half Moon Street(1986)

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Faith Kent,
Directors : Bob Swaim,

Dr. Slaughter, a researcher in London who works as a high class hooker in her spare time, becomes a pawn in a dangerous political game, when her latest john Lord Bulbeck, who's negotiating an Arab-Israeli peace treaty, falls for her.