Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Han Chin, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Ho Yim,

A talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII.

Actors : Laura Antonelli, Christian Clavier, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Boujenah,
Directors : François Leterrier,

Actors : Sigrid Huun, Hege Schøyen, Bettina Banoun, Jørn Christensen,
Directors : Oddvar Einarson,

Photographer John Gabriel, in his mid 20ies coincidentally meets 13 year old Flora, which has run off from home and have nowhere to sleep. They start off a love affair due to her need for affection.

Actors : Peter Phelps, Bruce Phillips, Alice Fraser, Greer Robson-Kirk,
Directors : Sam Pillsbury,

It is Depression era New Zealand and school-kid Kate is missing her father badly. The temptation to seek him out leads her into diverse and intense encounters with fate.

Actors : Fiona Fullerton, Petra Wagner, Barbara vom Baur, Mandy Perryment,
Directors : Cyril Frankel,

Actors : John Shea, Helen Mirren, Murray Salem, Paul Angelis,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Beaty is a prostitute working out of a high-class London cabaret where Emory is a technician. They begin an affair encumbered by her job, his lack of money, and their pasts: Beaty has a ...

Actors : Kathy Shower, William Smith, Robert Quarry, Brian Thompson,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.

Actors : Janusz Zakrzenski, Marta Lipinska, Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak, Adam Marjanski,
Directors : Zbigniew Kuzminski,

Actors : Jerzy Michotek, Andrzej Golejewski, Bozena Dykiel, Maria Gladkowska,
Directors : Roman Zaluski,

When her daughter unexpectedly gets pregnant, authoritative mother Jadwiga, who is a local government official, starts looking for a fictional husband. To make matters worse, she only finds a guy with a criminal record.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Jason Connery, Carol Alt, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Enrico Oldoini,

A married couple from Milan is tempted into mutual betrayal during a holiday in Mauritius Islands.

Actors : Debra De Liso, Ron Kologie, Elizabeth Gorcey, Doug Stevenson,
Directors : Jeff Kwitny,

A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.

Actors : Eddy Mitchell, Rachid Ferrache, Roger Hanin, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Alice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center.

Actors : Anna Maria Placido, Jessica Moore, Adriana Russo, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Mario Bianchi,

A family of 4 makes a long drive to Aunt Martha's house to visit her for the first time in years. Only she isn't there. Just the caretaker and his message that she will appear the next day...if they survive the night.

Actors : Ye Chen, Xiaoqing Liu, Kun Xiang, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Han Hsiang Li,

Dramatization of events from the Second Opium War which culminated in the looting and destruction of imperial estate "Yuan Ming Yuan", AKA the Old Summer Palace by invading English and French troops.

Actors : Maayke Bouten, Erik de Vries, Marlous Fluitsma, Johan Leysen,
Directors : Vivian Pieters,

18-year old Valerie and her mother Trudy live together in rural Oostdijk, a quiet little village near Amsterdam. When Trudy comes home one night, she gets run over by a car. Dead. The ...

Actors : Shôhei Hino, Shima Iwashita, Misako Tanaka, Hiromi Gô,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ...

Actors : Atilla Ergün, Yalçin Dümer, Güzin Özyagcilar, Hülya Avsar,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Massimo Girotti, Michele Placido, Marina Pierro, Laura Betti,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy happens again in a few centuries

Actors : Thom Hoffman, Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, Truus te Selle, Marion van Thijn,
Directors : Ben Verbong,

Actors : Elizabeth Kaitan, Stan Hurwitz, John Tyler, Rhonda Dorton,
Directors : Dusty Nelson,

A schoolgirl is raped by three low-lifes, and is then blackmailed by her attackers to keep her quiet. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who promptly "takes care" ...