Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Mirjam Sternheim, Geert de Jong, Peter Tuinman, Marijke Veugelers,
Directors : Pieter Verhoeff,

Actors : Angela Winkler, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

A 31 year-old designer moves to Paris in search of steady work but finds only dead ends, harassments, and broken promises.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Siu-Kwong Chung, Waise Lee,
Directors : Ann Hui,

After the Sino-Japanese War, Kwei Dz, one of the family members of Japanese soldiers accepted a Chinese officer's proposal and remained in China. Later they had a daughter named Ann. The ...

Actors : Jon Finch, Mercedes Sampietro, Carmen Maura, Víctor Valverde,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to ...

Actors : Cynthia Rothrock, Suki Kwan, Ken Tong, Kiu Wai Miu,
Directors : Chia Yung Liu,

Martial arts adventure about a tough FBI cop (Cynthia Rothrock) high-kicking her way to the final showdown with a Chinese Mafia boss.

Actors : Corinne Touzet, Daniel Ezralow, Béatrice Dalle, Jacques Weber,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil. ...

Actors : Diana Musca, Ernest Maftei, Elena Dragoi, Florina Cercel,
Directors : Gheorghe Naghi,

Adapted from Mihail Sadoveanu's 1926 novel. Lizuca is a 6 year old girl whose mother died and whose father is married to a nasty woman. She has to leave her grandparents, who she lived with...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Lara Wendel, Klaus Löwitsch, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gianni Barcelloni,

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. When she discovers that Viola...

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Chris Robinson, Kathleen Nolan,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

Actors : Srividya, Jayaram, Suresh Gopi, Shobana,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

After a serious accident a girl who was hospitalized forgets her past. She stops worrying about her past when she fall in love with a man and finds herself secure with him. But the reality ...

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, David Spielberg, Barry Primus,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A woman suffering from amnesia discovers that she is the sole surviving witness to a brutal murder. Although the police can find no clues about any murder, the killers begin to hunt her.

Actors : Milan Mladenovic, Branko Vidakovic, Branislav Lecic, Sonja Savic,
Directors : Milan Zivkovic,

After the death of their sponsor, rock band Zenit falls into a crisis. Thay need to make new arrangments of old songs in only 6 days. There comes to disagreement between band members because of different opinions.

Actors : Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer,
Directors : Francis Delia,

A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.

Actors : Thérèse Liotard, Santo Polimeno, Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Actors : Kaneta Kimotsuki, Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Hiroshi Fukutomi,

Through the adventure in summer, a boy experiences meeting and parting with a friend.

Actors : Taiji Tonoyama, Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Fran Rubel Kuzui,

Young female rock singer is not appreciated by her band, gets postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". Takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes ...

Actors : Susan Barnes, Ione Skye, Maureen O'Sullivan, Joe Morton,
Directors : Fleming B. Fuller,

A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Adam Ferency, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Barbara Grabowska,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker...

Actors : Carmen Galin, Izabela Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, George Mihaita,
Directors : Elisabeta Bostan,

Actors : Tom Bell, Kilian McKenna, Patricia Kerrigan, Caroline Milmoe,
Directors : David Wheatley,

After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but ...