Best Female Lead movies of 1985

Actors : Toni Berger, Manuela Denz, Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp,
Directors : Percy Adlon,

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Gaye Brown, Christopher Cazenove,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, William Ostrander, Sue Kiel, Linda Blair,

An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with ...

Actors : Iftekhar, Beena Banerjee, A.K. Hangal, Rajan Haksar,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.

Actors : Mirja Oksanen, Kari Väänänen, Martti Syrjä, Leena Harjupatana,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. After seeing that ...

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Sissy Spacek, Keith Szarabajka, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A woman is determined to reveal the truth about an insidious political corruption. In doing so she risks her safety, career and reputation but will not stop asking questions until the truth is known.

Actors : Marko Todorovic, Nebojsa Bakocevic, Relja Basic, Gala Videnovic,
Directors : Jovan Acin,

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for ...

Actors : Rip Torn, David Alan Grier, Loretta Swit, Kenneth Mars,
Directors : Patrick Kelly,

An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.

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 : Hans Runge, Kristina Raschen, Farin Urlaub, Bela B.,
Directors : Michael Laux,

Actors : Sverre Anker Ousdal, Malin Ek, Stellan Skarsgård, Marie Göranzon,
Directors : Hans Alfredson,

John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she ...

Actors : Diana Dors, Vanessa Redgrave, Patti Love, Sarah Miles,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Three female frequenters of a steam room decide to fight its closure.

Actors : Aytaç Arman, Macit Koper, Erol Durak, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Marina Vlady, Philippe Léotard, Marie Laforêt, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Fernando E. Solanas,

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.

Actors : Dennis Goldson, Nastassja Kinski, Michel Robin, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Arthur Joffé,

A young American woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheik and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the...

Actors : Ana Simic, Milena Dravic, Branka Katic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Mihailo Vukobratovic,

A divorcee and her two teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.

Actors : Mark Joseph, Sarsi Emmanuelle, Myra Manibog, Maria Isabel Lopez,
Directors : Elwood Perez,

In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him--one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.

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

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 : 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.