Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Bob Musak, Richard Nunalee, Denise Blanke, Mary Jane Shippen,
Directors : L. Ron Hubbard,

Procedural crime thriller written and directed by renowned author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

Actors : Marianne Basler, Nicole Garcia, Philippe Galland, Brigitte Roüan,
Directors : Brigitte Roüan,

In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she...

Actors : Adrienne Pierce, Tanya Roberts, Hal Orlandini, Julie Pop,
Directors : Ami Artzi,

Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

Actors : Joe Melia, Sheila Hancock, Thorley Walters, Michael Hordern,
Directors : Frank Launder,

The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

Actors : Geert de Jong, Theu Boermans, Wenneke Janssen, Hans Veerman,
Directors : Ben Sombogaart,

Lisa's parents are separated. Like the title says, her father (supposedly) lives in Rio de Janeiro. She often gets letters from him and dreams of visiting him in South America one fine day....

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Abdellatif Kechiche, Simon de La Brosse, Sandrine Bonnaire,
Directors : André Téchiné,

Actors : Peter Kern, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein, Ina Blum,
Directors : Monika Treut,

A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.

Actors : Kenny Johnson, Jennifer McAllister, Todd Caldecott, Kevin Masterson,
Directors : Bill Crain,

A smiling, sadistic and seemingly demonic young killer in black, who drives a black pick up truck, is hunting three young couples who came to the desert to drink, party and have sex.

Actors : Lino Banfi, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Alvaro Vitali, Carlo Sposito,
Directors : Mariano Laurenti,

Rich girl Angela returns to school and falls for the local hunk. But when he refuses her advances, she pretends to be in love with the principal instead.

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, Barry Primus, Cindy Pickett, Paul Jenkins,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, Josephine Koo, I-Chen Ko,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Actors : Lana Wood, Don Galloway, Britt Ekland, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : James Polakof,

A woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in her relationship with a ghostly, speechless presence who, obviously, doesn't quite say who he is.

Actors : Ruth Collins, Maurice Dupré, Kristine Rose, Frederick Lewis,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Sarah Asproon returns to New Orleans to act as executrix of the estate of a millionaire whom she was once the mistress of. She must decide which one of his surviving family members will ...

Actors : Yenny Farida, Harry Capri, Nina Anwar, Enny Beatrice,
Directors : Ackyl Anwari,

Two sisters plot for revenge against the drug-lord who murdered their family and took their home, now being used as a base for their experiments on aphrodisiacs. The older sister becomes a ...

Actors : Irina Alfyorova, Aleksandr Abdulov, Lyudmila Drebneva, Rufina Nifontova,
Directors : Pavel Arsyonov,

Actors : Kirsten Lehfeldt, Søren Østergaard, Torben Jensen, Peter Hesse Overgaard,
Directors : Helle Ryslinge,

Henriette is a fiercely independent nurse with the knack of solving all her friends problems, without being able to cope with her own. Lonely and single, she conceals a soft centre beneath ...

Actors : Barbara Cupisti, Pietro Genuardi, Lorenzo Majnoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Actors : Judith Baldwin, Marji Martin, Lori Singer, Adrian Pasdar,
Directors : Ken Friedman,

Two misfit best friends, Dar and Tuck, leave their dying coal mining town with only one goal in mind - to reach sunny California and hook up with some beach babes. On the road, they meet gun crazy outlaw Annie and she takes over.

Actors : Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Jennifer Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal,
Directors : Aparna Sen,

After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a ...

Actors : Sandrine Bonnaire, Fadi Taha, Dobi Wachinké, Dobi Koré,
Directors : Raymond Depardon,

A Frenchwoman is taken hostage by an African tribe for months - can she escape ?