Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Cornélia Wilms, Véronique Catanzaro, Kathryn Charly, Anthea Wyler,
Directors : Pierre B. Reinhard,

Promoted as France's first gore film, Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (La revanche des mortes-vivantes) is a consumate shocker of horror and sex that as grown into a legend as being one of the sickest and most perverse of zombie films.

Actors : Ion Caramitru, Diana Lupescu, Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Madalina Pop,
Directors : Nicolae Corjos,

Actors : Sonia Braga, Maria Lúcia Dahl, Regina Casé, Vera Abelha,
Directors : Arnaldo Jabor,

Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.

Actors : David Carradine, Jacqueline Giroux, Chris Graver, Peter Jason,
Directors : Gary Graver,

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Actors : Donald Moffat, Tess Harper, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning,
Directors : Sam Shepard,

After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.

Actors : Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Sam Freed, Boyd Gaines,
Directors : Sollace Mitchell,

A journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, and ends up witnessing a murder.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want ...

Actors : Jasmin, Hemant Birje, Sahila Chaddha, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,

A beautiful young girl, unfortunately possessed from her childhood by a vengeful spirit, wanders around lonely places to seduce and kill people and thus, gradually becoming lost into a dark world of revenge and lust.

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Serrault, Elisabeth Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look ...

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Actors : Lou Babin, Benoît Dagenais, Charlotte Laurier, Julien Poulin,
Directors : Pierre Falardeau,

At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary,...

Actors : Alberto Di Stasio, Fabio Sartor, Francesca Topi, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Piero Schivazappa,

Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Philippe Noiret, Giuliana de Sio, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A critique of the role of the male in modern Italian society and has demonstrated the possibility of a form of 'female bonding' between women who live, by choice, in a world without men

Actors : José Luis Manzano, Emma Penella, Maribel Verdú, José Luis Gómez,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

A couple of ruffians enters a tobacconist in the neighborhood of Vallecas to steal. Having failed in its intention they finish entrench themselves in the place, being surrounded by police.

Actors : Gülsen Bubikoglu, Müjdat Gezen, Perran Kutman, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Actors : Marília Pêra, Geraldine Smith, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Colin Baumgartner, Louis Guzzo,
Directors : Christopher Monger,

A former vaudevillian magician (MacLaine) moves her straight-laced niece (Garr) and her two mischievous children to a small town. When the two kids get in trouble with a neighbor for ...

Actors : Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce,
Directors : Peter Frazer-Jones,

Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel - whatever the cost. However, a shady businessman mistakes George for a hit man.