Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Charles Jackson, Melanie Verlin, John Hall,
Directors : John A. Russo,

A teenage runaway and 2 guys traveling cross-country encounter a family of satanists.

Actors : Farooq Shaikh, Rekha, Bindu, Asrani,
Directors : J.K. Bihari,

With a bull-whip and the lash of her tongue, Mrs Bhandari rules her household through intimidation and fear. She treats her husband and eldest son, Suraj, as imbeciles and her adopted ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Gaye Brown,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Dara Calenic, Rialda Kadric, Vladimir Petrovic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

Mary's problem was solved another state without health consequences. Now Mary is strictly controlled by the parents but still finishing high school. Bob and Mary continue their love, but ...

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Philippe Noiret, Jacques François, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.

Actors : Iftekhar, Beena Banerjee, A.K. Hangal, Rajan Haksar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.

Actors : Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Julie McCullough, Danielle Brisebois,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, ...

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 : Michael Brandon, Shirley MacLaine, Bo Derek, Anthony Hopkins,

Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Sissy Spacek, Keith Szarabajka, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A woman is determined to reveal the truth about an insidious political corruption. In doing so she risks her safety, career and reputation but will not stop asking questions until the truth is known.

Actors : Edda Barends, Henriëtte Tol, Nelly Frijda, Cox Habbema,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other ...

Actors : Dorota Segda, Péter Andorai, Paulus Manker, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Ildikó Enyedi,

Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Robert Loggia, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Chagall,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Actors : Richard Rebiere, Laura Henry, Cynthia Dale, Walter George Alton,
Directors : Lawrence Dane,

A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.

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 : Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Hanna Schygulla, Christine Fersen,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly ...

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Juliette Caton, Charlie Sheen, Joanna Clarke,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.

Actors : Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko,
Directors : Vitali Kanevsky,

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

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 ...