Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Julian Glover, Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julie Christie,
Directors : James Ivory,

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to ...

Actors : Miranda Garrison, Laura Harring, Barbra Brighton, Jeff James,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a ...

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Ken Marshall, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Daniel Goldberg,

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and recognize crimes. They also get ...

Actors : Clare Nono, Cristina Raines, Anthony James, Joe Lambie,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

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

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.

Actors : Dominique Besnehard, Christophe Odent, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Suzanne is sixteen and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour....

Actors : John Vernon, Tamara Dobson, Linda Blair, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where...

Actors : Marjorie Yates, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench,
Directors : David Hare,

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...

Actors : Jenny Wright, Stephanie Hodge, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook,
Directors : Tibor Takács,

A bookshop clerk finds that an insane and murderous doctor from one of the store's horror novels has come to life.

Actors : Pat Ast, Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.

Actors : Suzanne Flon, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Jenny Clève,
Directors : Jean Becker,

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She ...

Actors : Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins,
Directors : John Erman,

Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny......

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Patrick Kavanagh, Michael Caine, 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.

Actors : Louis Ferreira, Lisa Schrage, Wendy Lyon, Michael Ironside,
Directors : Bruce Pittman,

Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Grant Page, Marion Edward, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Bridget Fonda, Scott Coffey,
Directors : Zelda Barron,

Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.

Actors : Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Chris Menges,

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...