Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Nicholas Kilbertus, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Pen Densham,

When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a ...

Actors : Victor Wong, Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Ida F.O. Chung,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

In San Francisco, an immigrant Chinese widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune ...

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Lambert Wilson, Brooke Shields, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Julia Migenes, Faith Esham, Ruggero Raimondi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.

Actors : Johannes Brost, Reine Brynolfsson, Helena Bergström, Ing-Marie Carlsson,
Directors : Colin Nutley,

Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The...

Actors : Pamela Holland, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Laurie Lapinski,

Four college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

Actors : Christina Whitaker, Tammara Souza, Elizabeth Kaitan, Nick Cassavetes,
Directors : Anita Rosenberg,

Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are ...

Actors : Gina Calabrese, Shayne Farris, Dru-Anne Perry, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

A band finally gets the opportunity for that breakthrough gig if they can make it to an "in" club on another planet in time.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Joe Pesci, Dianne Wiest, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Jack Hofsiss,

A true story about Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Gordon's Valium addiction and her desperate attempts to kick the habit.

Actors : Jessica Forde, Mr. Housseau, Joëlle Miquel, Mme. Housseau,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair ...

Actors : Christina Orbakaite, Yuriy Nikulin, Elena Sanaeva, Dmitri Yegorov,
Directors : Rolan Bykov,

Unpopular girl being bullied in her class.

Actors : Katherine Bean, Grace Phillips, Stephen Lack, Emmanuelle Chaulet,
Directors : Jon Jost,

Anna, a French actress, is approached by financial broker Gordon in the Vermeer room of a New York gallery. However, romance does not ensue...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the...

Actors : Chika Sakamoto, Ayumi Ishijo, Junko Hori, Mayumi Tanaka,

Two kittens go on a metaphysical journey on a magical railroad train.

Actors : Yilmaz Zafer, Macit Koper, Füsun Demirel, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

After Serap, the theatre actress, acts in an advertisement, she loses her identity and become a housewife with two children. The movie is about dilemma of Serap and Naciye.

Actors : Les Tremayne, June Foray, Mel Blanc,

Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the ...

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Yeoh, Ying Bai, Michael Wong,
Directors : David Chung,

Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto ...

Actors : Deborah Winters, Andra St. Ivanyi, Scott Bankston, James Huston,
Directors : Tom Daley,

An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman's house. They are killed and the lamp is moved to a museum to be studied. The curator's daughter is soon possessed...

Actors : Nurinisa Yildirim, Münir Özkul, Yesim Tozan, Gülsen Tuncer,
Directors : Reha Erdem,

Story of a little girl with pigeon and her grand dad, missing her mother.