Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Maurício do Valle, Elizabeth Hartmann, Sandra Graffi, 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 : 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 : 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 : Denis Bernard, Mahée Paiement, Doris Blanchet-Vasiloff, Véronique Lavoie,
Directors : André Mélançon,

Fanny is a young orphan girl who is sent to live with her detached Uncle Jonathan when her grandmother enters a nursing home. As Jonathan prepares for an organ recital of music by Bach, he ...

Actors : A Martinez, Robert Forster, Nancy Kwan, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Joe Cortese, Talia Shire, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Medford,
Directors : Gordon Willis,

Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns ...

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

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

Actors : Thierry Lhermitte, Macha Méril, Michel Serrault, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

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 : 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 : 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."