Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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...

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 : Natalya Shchukina, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Dmitriy Maryanov, Marina Neyolova,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them ...

Actors : Mitsuru Hirata, Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Chika Takami,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Aging Kamata movie star "Gin-chan" Ginshiro (Morio Kazama) is filming a story about Samurai in Imperial Japan at the start of the Meiji... See full synopsis »

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

Actors : Halil Demirler, Damla Coskunoglu, Müjde Ar, Savas Basar,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

The revenge of a cheated girl.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen,
Directors : Robert Mandel,

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Yasushi Yokoyama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Norio Nishikawa,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

Chie Takemoto is a small dependable girl, who lives in Osaka with her dad. She has to goals - to get her troublesome father, who runs a tavern, some work and then get him to make up with her mother, who left him.

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 ...