Best Female Lead movies of 1981

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Karin Well, Simone Mattioli,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. The zombies attack a jet-set-group which is celebrating a party in a villa nearby...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Marion Edward, Grant Page, 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 : Rebecca Balding, Anne-Marie Martin, Jeff Harlan, Fred McCarren,
Directors : James L. Conway,

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Patrick Piccininni, Howard Hesseman,
Directors : Alan Myerson,

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Ann Mitchell, Nicholas Clay,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Vsevolod Larionov, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Volyntsev, Olga Gromova,
Directors : Roman Kachanov,

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to ...

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Doris Schade,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Actors : Line Arlien-Søborg, Marian Wendelbo, Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen,
Directors : Nils Malmros,

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner, David Selby,
Directors : George Cukor,

Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes...

Actors : Yelena Fadeyeva, Vadim Ledogorov, Uldis Lieldidz, Yelena Metyolkina,

A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.

Actors : Curd Jürgens, Claude Jade, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Kostolevskiy,

Alain Delon and Claude Jade stars in this Soviet movie: Documents reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.

Actors : Gyula Szabó, Ferenc Szalma, György Cserhalmi, Vera Pap,
Directors : Marcell Jankovics,

A man is born the son of a horse with superpowers and uses them to do battle with legendary dragons.

Actors : John Gielgud, Lesley-Anne Down, Maurice Ronet, Frank Langella,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Actors : Tatyana Aksyuta, Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Elena Solovey, Irina Miroshnichenko,
Directors : Ilya Frez,

A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates ...

Actors : W.D. Mochtar, Sofia W.D., Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo,
Directors : H. Tjut Djalil,

Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a ...

Actors : Loes Luca, Peter Tuinman, Renée Soutendijk, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Actors : Dennis Robertson, Morgan Most, Michael MacRae, Trish Everly,
Directors : Ovidio G. Assonitis,

Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideously deformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local looney bin. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for ...

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Sabine Haudepin, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : André Téchiné,

Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a ...