Best Female Lead movies of 1988

Actors : Christian Ruché, Miou-Miou, Sylvie Laporte, Michel Raskine,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Jean-Claude Leguay, Élisabeth Vitali, Vincent Lindon,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Three months before her final examinations, the ambitious teachership student Valentine concentrates herself completely on learning. When Jazz musician Edouard wooes her, she agrees on a ...

Actors : Nicholas Kilbertus, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Pen Densham,

When Felice and Hillary were children, they were separated to live with other people. Felice went off with a relative who possessed an unusual bloodline which was passed on to Felice via a ...

Actors : Christina Whitaker, Tammara Souza, Elizabeth Kaitan, Nick Cassavetes,
Directors : Anita Rosenberg,

Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are ...

Actors : Tôru Furuya, Masako Nozawa, Hiromi Tsuru, Mami Koyama,
Directors : Kazuhisa Takenouchi,

Emperor Chiaotzu's wife has gone missing, and he is told by Master Shen that if he collects the seven dragon balls he can call upon the eternal dragon and wish for her return. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Katarzyna Laniewska, Ewa Kasprzyk, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Roman Zaluski,

A country girl Kasia Solska is forced by her family to marry the man she finds unattractive. She secretly gets to university, escapes from her village to Warsaw and starts working as a babysitter there.

Actors : John Laughlin, Faye Dunaway, Kim Cattrall, Daniel J. Travanti,
Directors : Roger Holzberg,

A group of adventurers sneak into Cuba to try to recover $1 million in cash that when hidden when Fidel Castro took over in 1959. They find themselves trying to avoid detection by Cuban ...

Actors : Penelope Windust, Catherine Hickland, Franc Luz, Jimmie F. Skaggs,

A modern-day deputy tracks an abducted girl to a ghost town, and the spirits of the past who took her.

Actors : Nurinisa Yildirim, Yesim Tozan, Münir Özkul, Gülsen Tuncer,
Directors : Reha Erdem,

Story of a little girl with pigeon and her grand dad, missing her mother.

Actors : Rekha, Sonu Walia, Kader Khan, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Rakesh Roshan,

A man marries a rich widow for her money and tries to murder her but she survives, gets a new face due to plastic surgery and returns for revenge.

Actors : Gustavo Rodríguez, Natalie Uher, Thomas Obermuller, Jean-René Gossart,

Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most exquisite models deep into the Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous and the women soon find themselves captive to a ...

Actors : Farooq Shaikh, Rekha, Bindu, Asrani,
Directors : J.K. Bihari,

With a bull-whip and the lash of her tongue, Mrs Bhandari rules her household through intimidation and fear. She treats her husband and eldest son, Suraj, as imbeciles and her adopted ...

Actors : Kari Sorvali, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Tiina Björkman, Kim Gunell,
Directors : Olli Soinio,

A female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as ...

Actors : Manfredo Bahia, Xuxa, Nair Amorim, Tuca Andrada,

With the power of a magic crystal, a TV hostess becomes the only hope to defeat a malign subterranean entity, that is sick of her good, generous deeds.

Actors : Lou Doillon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mathieu Demy, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Mary-Jane asks, "Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?" She's divorced with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, ...

Actors : Jemma Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Directors : Harley Cokeliss,

A young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders.

Actors : Reb Brown, Catherine Hickland, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

A clone/mix of PREDATOR and ROBOCOP gone nuts jungle flick with an international cast, exotic locale and good electronic music.

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 : 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 : 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.