Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Monica Nordquist, Liv Alsterlund, Björn Granath, Jonna Liljendahl,
Directors : Göran Graffman,

Madicken never means for anything to go wrong, but somehow it gets that way. Neither this time, when her little sister got a concussion, and it's not her fault that she puts a pea up her own nose.

Actors : Anuradha Patel, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Ram Mohan,
Directors : Gulzar,

Mahendra is in love with Maya and would like to marry her. But Maya is a woman of the 20th century, who does not believe in marriage, but would like to continue having a relationship. ...

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Suzanna Love, Sholto von Douglas, Shannah Hall,

Lacey travels to Hollywood, to the home of a film director, where she brings along the last surviving haunted mirror shard from the end of the first movie as proof to her horrifying experiences.

Actors : Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.

Actors : Laura Albert, Fox Harris, Madeleine Reynal, Jennifer Balgobin,
Directors : Stephen Sayadian,

Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido. The staff...

Actors : Kerry Armstrong, Seth Allen, Danny Aiello, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Barnet Kellman,

A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Mia Nygren, Deborah Power, Patrick Bauchau,

In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle. With this new identity comes a sexual awakening which is...

Actors : Saeko Kizuki, Megumi Kawashima, Naomi Hagio, Osamu Tsuruoka,
Directors : Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu,

Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Sebastian Shaw, Irene Papas,
Directors : Clare Peploe,

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist...

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 : Antonio Mayans, Antonio de Cabo, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.

Actors : John Terlesky, Dedee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack, Susanna Hoffs,
Directors : Tamar Simon Hoffs,

Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she's found....

Actors : Richard Hench, Jo-Ann Robinson, Roger Maycock, Frank McDonald,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

A group of archeological students venture on Indian land for a dig. Unfortunately, they release an evil spirit who possesses one of them and starts killing the others.

Actors : Rainbow Harvest, William Sanderson, Yvonne De Carlo, Karen Black,
Directors : Marina Sargenti,

A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

Actors : Sarah Kendall, Frederick Flynn, Carol Kottenbrook, Alan McRae,
Directors : J.S. Cardone,

Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.

Actors : Jamie Farr, Savina Gersak, Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck,
Directors : Frederico Prosperi,

After being bitten by a radioactive snake, a young man begins to spawn snake-like creatures with a vicious, murdeous nature.

Actors : Takis Spiridakis, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moschos, Despina Tomazani,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to ...

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kenny Ireland, Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley,
Directors : David Leland,

An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Cynthia Gibb, Clayton Rohner, Daphne Zuniga,
Directors : Jerry Kramer,

A pair of women decide to prank their roommate's nerdy blind date after she stands him up, but end up developing a friendship with him after their practical joke sends them on an all-night odyssey through the 1980s club scene.

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.