Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Martin Walz, Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Curt Bois,
Directors : Markus Imhoof,

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ...

Actors : Grace De Capitani, Claude Rich, Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Sardou,
Directors : Didier Kaminka,

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Actors : A Martinez, Nancy Kwan, Robert Forster, Joe Spinell,
Directors : Norbert Meisel,

A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Actors : Ryôichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi, Toshie Negishi, Tomoyo Harada,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Actors : Julie Bataille, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Zabou Breitman,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

Actors : Vanessa Hidalgo, Helga Liné, Jeffrey Healey, Alfred Lucchetti,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the...

Actors : Mio Takaki, Kevin McNally, Gudrun Landgrebe, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ...

Actors : Lepa Brena, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic, Svetislav 'Bule' Goncic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Story of Lepa Brena, and her journey and adventures during one of her tours through Yugoslavia.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemev, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Rita Tushingham, Olivia d'Abo, Jessica Steen,
Directors : Paul Lynch,

Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnasics tournaments anymore. Shattered dreams. She lives with her mother and bad ...

Actors : Barry Tubb, Kelly Lynch, Larry Poindexter, Ron Sloan,
Directors : Joe Gayton,

A woman tries to kill herself and ends up in the hospital. She escapes and wanders into the desert. There she comes upon a roadside bar where she gets extremely drunk with the locals and a ...

Actors : Dominique Sanda, Lautaro Murúa, Assumpta Serna, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Actors : Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai, Irina Brook, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Actors : Maurício do Valle, Sandra Graffi, Elizabeth Hartmann, Lígia de Paula,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves. Some of the women escape, but are pursued into the jungle by their captors. The ...

Actors : Stefaniya Stanyuta, Leonid Kryuk, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the ...

Actors : Makio Inoue, Keiko Han, Fumi Hirano, Maki Carousel,

Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.

Actors : Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Lepa Brena, Jovan Radovanovic, Lazar Ristovski,
Directors : Stanko Crnobrnja,

The false story in the newspaper about the marriage of Lepa Brena to wealthy Australians, they will try to take advantage of various types to check the news and to get a good salary and a bet that even some fairly well and get rich.

Actors : Clive Revill, Helen Hunt, Aileen Quinn, John Paragon,
Directors : Jackson Hunsicker,

Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."

Actors : Maximilian Wolters, Laura Gemser, Christian Anders, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Christian Anders,

The young daughter of a US Senator is drawn into a hippie "free love" cult called "The Children of Light" by the blond boyfriend of the cult's leader, a mysterious and beautiful Asian woman...