Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : Danièle Gégauff, Sylvie Matton, Maria Schneider, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in NYC and to her younger sister Leo in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. When Ben and Leo arrive, a mysterious adventure begins.

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 : Maria Romano, Laura Gemser, Ursula Flores, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Bruno Mattei,

Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to...

Actors : Renato Aragão, Juninho Bill, Amanda Acosta, Mussum,
Directors : José Alvarenga Jr.,

A distant planet is overtaken by war, slavery and desolation after a tyrannical man murders the world's emperor. Is up to four jumbled man and the king's sweet-hearted daughter to change their reality.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Rick Hill, Sybil Danning, Josephine Jacqueline Jones,
Directors : Chuck Vincent,

In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, meantime secretly helping the slaves to escape. Eventually her life is...

Actors : Cindy Ferda, James Carroll Jordan, J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner, John Henry Richardson,
Directors : James Shyman,

A female cop goes undercover as a dancer at an old theater to catch a serial killer who has been murdering women auditioning for a musical.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.

Actors : Yves Collignon, Joshua McDonald, Enzo De Caro, Fiona Gélin,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

Photographer Lea visits her hubby Alfredo, who works on an oil rig in Morocco. Wherever she goes, she's given eerie dirty looks. She gives in to a couple of men, but then falls for thuggish bar owner Le Serpent and his bar boy.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Jan Niklas,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Actors : Jun Izumi, Naoto Takenaka, Mayako Katsuragi, Hirofumi Kobayashi,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Actors : Peggy Ann Wood, Deborah Kerr, Ronald Russell, Daisy Bell,
Directors : Mary McMurray,

A Englishwoman and her Indian neighbor bond while fixing up her Imperial-style garden. Meanwhile, present day concerns and painful memories intrude.

Actors : Toula Stathopoulou, Giorgos Agiovlassitis, Anny Loulou, Stratis Tsopanellis,
Directors : Tonia Marketaki,

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis ...

Actors : Vladimir Ilin, Oksana Arbuzova, Nikolai Pastukhov, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya,
Directors : Mikhail Tumanishvili,

A teenage girl nicknamed Avariya - "Crash" - is a rebel child that just can't get along with her family members that try to persuade her to behave normally - that is as other people do. But...

Actors : Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Giovanni Visentin, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Camillo Teti,

While writing her thesis in criminology, a young woman begins to suspect that her new boyfriend is a serial killer.

Actors : László Kistamás, Judit László, Péter Geltz, Károly Eperjes,
Directors : András Monory Mész,

Mail author for translation. Egy kihalt gyarnegyedben, a varos peremen, valahol Kelet-Europaban, egy ures muhely kozepen all egy kad. Eckermann, a meteorologus furdik benne. Ideje java ...

Actors : Sylvie Joly, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Mocky,

The roman catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes depicted in an anticlerical way :hypocrisy, superstition and business

Actors : Esko Salminen, Satu Silvo, Maija-Liisa Marton, Rauni Luoma,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

Actors : Marcos Palmeira, Diogo Vilela, Louise Cardoso, Paulo César Grande,
Directors : Luiz Carlos Lacerda,

A star studded biography of Brazilian legend Leila Diniz, born in 1945 to a communist couple. She grows up to be an extraordinary woman in her own, undefinable, and unique style, unheard of...

Actors : Sau Lan Chow, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Elaine Jin, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,