Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, James Carroll, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Robert Deubel,

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Stan Shaw, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Rockne S. O'Bannon,

Psychic Cayce Bridges helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent - who wants to share the fear of his victims with ...

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 : Barry Morse, Kay Hawtrey, Dean Garbett, Lesleh Donaldson,
Directors : William Fruet,

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Actors : Crispin Dickson Wendenius, Ellen Demérus, Linda Bergström, Henrik Larsson,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

There are only a handful of children living in Bullarby. This film follows their story through the fall and winter, picking up at the moment "The Children of Noisy Village" finishes.

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Princess Shizu's family is wiped out by an family of undead seeking revenge. The eight samurai can save her, but who and where are they?

Actors : Telly Savalas, Roddy McDowall, Michael Bell, Margot Kidder,

The Go-Bots fight to rescue the Rock People.

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

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

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 : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...

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 : Henrik Pauer, Anikó Iván, Péter Gálfy, István Znamenák,
Directors : Péter Gothár,

In Hungary in the 1960s, a single mother must raise her children by herself.

Actors : Susanna Makay, Nicole A. Gyony, Hajni Brown, Celia Farago,
Directors : Léon Paul De Bruyn,

Bizzare, often perverse yarn about nurses in a metropolitan hospital who seduce then murder male patients.

Actors : Jason Robards, Mark Joy, Tom Hulce, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a ...

Actors : Giulietta Masina, Petra Vancíková, Tobias Hoesl, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

The Feather Fairy lives in the sky and gives snow to the people. She lives with a boy called Jakob, who one day ventures into the human world and falls for a peasant girl.

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 : Nonna Mordyukova, Ivan Bortnik, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand.

Actors : David Wysocki, Mary Beth McDonough, Lynda Day George, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.

Actors : Jeana Keough, Debra Blee, Val Kline, James Daughton,
Directors : Bud Townsend,

School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the...

Actors : Yat Chor Yuen, Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Michael Wong,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A Hong Kong cop and two American cops are onto a suspected harbor worker and are forced to team up when they discover that the suspect is a witness on the run from CIA agents and their schemers; two corrupt cops.