Best Female Lead movies of 1980

Actors : Gary Sweet, Jenny Neumann, Max Phipps, Nina Landis,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy ...

Actors : Dieter Montag, Heide Kipp, Alexander Lang, Renate Krößner,

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life ...

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 : Daniel Dicenta, Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, José Manuel Cervino,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

El 21 de agosto de 1910, en el pueblo de Osa de la Vega, provincia de Cuenca, desaparece el pastor José María Grimaldos... See full synopsis »

Actors : Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai,
Directors : István Szabó,

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Actors : Stratford Johns, Brian Murphy, Norman Eshley, 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.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Carrie Snodgress, Ruth Cox, Ray Milland,

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ...

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Barry Primus, Cindy Pickett, Paul Jenkins,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?

Actors : Jon Finch, Mercedes Sampietro, Carmen Maura, Víctor Valverde,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to ...

Actors : Sylvia Engelmann, Renate Langer, Manuela Kohlhofer, Katja Bienert,
Directors : Walter Boos,

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Mabel Escaño, Katja Bienert, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Eugenie is the capricious daughter of a rich diplomat, living in a seaside resort in Spain. She exhibits her young and splendid body in the beach and night-clubs. She feels an incredible ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Giuliano Gemma, Giancarlo Zanetti, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Actors : John Shea, Helen Mirren, Murray Salem, Paul Angelis,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Beaty is a prostitute working out of a high-class London cabaret where Emory is a technician. They begin an affair encumbered by her job, his lack of money, and their pasts: Beaty has a ...

Actors : Tim Choate, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Anne Baxter,
Directors : James Ivory,

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Wife is cheating her husband and the husband is cheating her back with her lover's girlfriend. The two cheating couples decide to go to a resort but they unintentionally pick the same one. Hilarity ensues.

Actors : Kaneta Kimotsuki, Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Hiroshi Fukutomi,

Through the adventure in summer, a boy experiences meeting and parting with a friend.

Actors : Marco Gelardini, Lino Banfi, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Alvaro Vitali,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Actors : Olga Kacijan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, Erol Kadic,
Directors : Karpo Acimovic-Godina,

Story about the group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Lara Wendel, Klaus Löwitsch, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gianni Barcelloni,

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. When she discovers that Viola...