Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Alberto Di Stasio, Fabio Sartor, Serena Grandi, Francesca Topi,
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 : Chrissie Cotterill, Elizabeth Edmonds, Amanda York, Kate Ingram,
Directors : Mai Zetterling,

Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured ...

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

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil,
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 : 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 : Bo Svenson, Savina Gersak, Victoria Zinny, Mary Kohnert,
Directors : Jeff Kwitny,

A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, ...

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 : Rick Edwards, Barbara De Rossi, Ronn Moss, Zeudi Araya Cristaldi,
Directors : Giacomo Battiato,

Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, ...

Actors : Lana Clarkson, David McCallum, Nicole Eggert, Christopher Halsted,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

A witch is put to death in Colonial America, leaving her husband and infant daughter behind. Seventeen years later, the daughter has grown up and stands to inherit money set up by her ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Giuliana de Sio,
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 : 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 : 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 : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Te-Lo Mai, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

When you combine "Kung-fu" Liu Chia-liang with the greatest kung-fu film character of all time, Huang Fei-hung, you get one of the finest "pure" kung-fu films ever made, with martial arts mastery in every scene.

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 : Mircea Diaconu, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Draga Olteanu Matei, Octavian Cotescu,
Directors : Virgil Calotescu,

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 : 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 : Xavier Deluc, Charlotte Rampling, Elisabeth Depardieu, Michel Serrault,
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 ...