Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Ugo Bologna, Lorraine De Selle, Louisa Lloyd, John Aldrich,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose.

Actors : Toni Berger, Manuela Denz, Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Actors : Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Bogdan Diklic, Predrag Lakovic, Snezana Niksic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Actors : Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne, Ann Bronston,
Directors : Byron Quisenberry,

A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.

Actors : Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Hannele Lauri,

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Gabriel Byrne, Angela Goodwin, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Peter Del Monte,

Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably ...

Actors : Gülsen Bubikoglu, Müjdat Gezen, Perran Kutman, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Sulukule the gypsy district. Three couples get married in Sulukule - Gullu with Bayram, Sevim with Bekir and Emin with Sabahat. They are homeless and need to earn money somehow. Women sell ...

Actors : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

Actors : James Wilder, Virginia Madsen, Kay E. Kuter, Richard Cox,
Directors : Ron Link,

A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment. Over a course of...

Actors : Aleksandr Abdulov, Klara Luchko, Yuriy Yakovlev, Irina Muravyova,
Directors : Tatyana Lioznova,

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Actors : Monica Broeke, Inge Maria Granzow, Patrick Bauchau, Anja Schüte,
Directors : David Hamilton,

Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.

Actors : John Aprea, Bruce Penhall, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

On their way to make an air delivery, two drug enforcement agents will need to do an emergency landing on a remote island, rumoured to have a gold treasure.

Actors : Caren L. Larkey, Kurt Johnson, Anita Skinner, Robin Davidson,
Directors : Thom Eberhardt,

A lone survivor of a plane crash is haunted by a feeling unworthy of survival. Dead people start coming after her to collect her.

Actors : Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile, Jennifer Runyon, William Lauer,
Directors : David Hess,

A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.

Actors : Ian McShane, Rudolf Nureyev, Nastassja Kinski, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : James Toback,

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a ...

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Sudhir Mishra, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

When a starlet is murdered on a film location, her detective brother arrives there to solve the mystery.

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Hédi Temessy, György Cserhalmi, Maria Gladkowska, Zita Perczel,
Directors : Ferenc András,

Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.

Actors : Lou Doillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathieu Demy, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Mary-Jane asks, "Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?" She's divorced with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, ...

Actors : Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite, Maria Stella Splendore, Neide Ribeiro,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.