Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Dominique Lavanant, Luis Rego, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiance when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Actors : Anton Diffring, Serge Merlin, Cyrielle Clair, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, Gila von Weitershausen, David Suchet,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

Actors : Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Louise Marleau, Germain Houde,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

Actors : Antony Alda, Geof Prysirr, Leah Ayres, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : John Florea,

When Rachel went to visit her very successful sister in Hollywood, she expected her vacation to be exciting compared to her life in Kansas. She didn't expect her sister's murder.

Actors : Michaela Kuklová, Lubor Tokos, Antonie Hegerlíková, Jan Potmesil,
Directors : Zdenek Troska,

Fairy tale about young cobbler Jíra, who had fashioned wings from leather in order to rescue princess Jasnenka from the tower of the royal castle, where her father had closed her to to save her from the evil witch and her daughter Cernava.

Actors : Fennie Yuen, Roy Cheung, Lai-Yui Lee, Damian Lau,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

A young schoolgirl gets involved in the triads of Hong Kong after a classmate is killed in a fight.

Actors : Jayne Hutton, Heath Porter, Shirley Jane Harris, Tanya Gordon,
Directors : John Bernard,

The ghost of a serial killer, executed for murdering students at a Catholic girls' school, returns to the school to take revenge on the current student body.

Actors : Gerhard Olschewski, Maria Schell, Lukás Vaculík, Adriana Tarábková,
Directors : Miloslav Luther,

A fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar. The poor life, hard work and love ...

Actors : Yoko, Jean-Claude Benhamou, Françoise Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Adventure, crime and mystery combine with comic book dialogue and some sadistic sex for good measure. Playfully perverse, pistol-packing fun with Yoko and the alluring Francoise Blanchard.

Actors : Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Jennifer Connelly, Olimpia Carlisi,
Directors : Peter Del Monte,

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Actors : Jerzy Korcz, Marian Dziedziel, Liliana Czarska, Józef Kopocz,
Directors : Janusz Kidawa,

Actors : Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Boris Nevzorov, Margarita Terekhova, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Gennadiy Vasilev,

Action of a picture happens in Ancient Russia (Rus) - in those days when the Slavs who have united in army under leadership of Ratibor, the son Vseslav managed to win the first victories over tribes of nomads.

Actors : Laurence Côte, Isabelle Huppert, Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Louis Murat,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

After the suicide of her husband, a widow is trying to get a confession from his mistress that it was her fault.

Actors : Elena Kapitsa, Vladimir Eryomin, Lyudmila Arinina, Elena Kondulaynen,

A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, ...

Actors : Debbie Harry, Hanna Schygulla, Annie Golden, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop who pursues her killers.

Actors : Ana Obregón, Guillermo Montesinos, Antonio Resines, Verónica Forqué,
Directors : Fernando Colomo,

Ana is a doctor that works at a clinic for STDs, meeting characters from all walks of life, while outrageous situations ensue.

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, David Warbeck, Christina Nagy, Carroll Blumenberg,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

David Warbeck stars an instructor who marries a traumatized, crippled woman. The wife is tormented by a traumatic event that happended. What is even more unfortunate is that her marriage is...

Actors : Christoph Eichhorn, Lydia Billiet, Badema, Sevimbike Elibay,
Directors : Ulrike Ottinger,

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.