Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Yaseen Khan, Monique Gabrielle, Crofton Hardester, Dana Burns Westburg,

[American version.] Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film Festival. Her rotten luck continues when the dictator of...

Actors : Wendy Schaal, Lorna Luft, Lisa Hartman, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Hy Averback,

Remake of the 1960 movie of the same name has four college coeds; virginal Jennie, outgoing Carole, wealthy and spoiled Southern belle Sandra, and horny Laurie traveling to Fort Lauderdale ...

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 : Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Marie Kean, Wendy Hiller,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

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 : Ross O'Donovan, Margo Lee, Jo Kennedy, Max Cullen,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.

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 : Jánosné Bráda, Róbert Koltai, Kyri Ambrus, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.

Actors : Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Jerzy Turek, Katarzyna Laniewska, Dariusz Siatkowski,
Directors : Roman Zaluski,

Actors : Wulf Kessler, Ulrich Tukur, Oliver Siebert, Lena Stolze,
Directors : Michael Verhoeven,

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. The students form a resistance cell ...

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 : Sonia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonio Cantafora, Paulo Goulart,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways...

Actors : Ming Hsu, Sylvia Chang, Terry Hu, Hou Tao Hsiao,
Directors : Edward Yang,

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

Actors : Julia Saly, Silvia Aguilar, Paul Naschy, Azucena Hernández,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young woman and bathing in their blood.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Richard Berry, Evelyne Bouix,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very ...

Actors : Hideyuki Tanaka, Akira Kamiya, Toshio Furukawa, Michiko Kawai,

Cosmo Academy has set a test for ten of its applicants to survive on a spaceship for 2 months. But there is an eleventh member aboard.

Actors : Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey, Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie,
Directors : Ann Turner,

An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.

Actors : David Allen Brooks, Lolita Lorre, Rachael Kelly, Marie Masters,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

Actors : Sean Masterson, Michael O'Leary, Lynn Banashek, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Michael Elliot,

A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the most brutal way. Especially naked girls in dressing-rooms or saunas.

Actors : Peggy McIntaggart, Persis Khambatta, James Emery, Kathleen Kinmont,
Directors : Robert Hayes,

Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to...