Best Female Lead movies of 1981

Actors : Patrick Perrot, Christiane Coppé, Marianne Valiot, Laurence Dubas,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

On the run from an asylum for the insane, a feisty young girl and a forlorn female companion embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers. Wandering from the fantastic to the farcical and back again,

Actors : Mahmut Cevher, Talat Bulut, Türkan Soray, Aliye Rona,
Directors : Türkan Soray,

Actors : Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering.

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 : Feng Ku, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Many feel that this, one of the Shaw Studio's biggest moneymakers, is one of those rare sequels which superior to its original. In any case, the charming title hero is back in action, ...

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Katja Bienert, Raquel Evans, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Betsy Norman is a happy assistant at a luxurious Spanish hotel. Shiela, the hotel owner, caters for all wishes of her clientele with another lucrative business, the brothel "Rio Amore" ...

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 : Monte Markham, Arlene Golonka, Karen Black, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.

Actors : Juraj Kukura, Josef Abrhám, Hana Zagorová, Waldemar Matuska,
Directors : Zdenek Podskalský,

Actors : Anna Alexiadis, Bo Derek, Peter Hooten, Faidon Georgitsis,
Directors : John Derek,

16-year old Anastasia and her adopted brother Damir live on a Greek island with their pervy grandfather. She dreams about having a large antique bathtub and he dreams about running a sea-side resort. They begin to fall for each other.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri,
Directors : Shinji Sômai,

Actors : Lucinda Dooling, John Randolph, Marie Windsor, Mel Novak,
Directors : David Sheldon,

A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.

Actors : Aris Retsos, Betty Livanou, Giorgos Siskos, Dora Volanaki,
Directors : Giorgos Panousopoulos,

From the opposite apartment, a young man observes the daily life of an unsuspected woman. Will she ever know his existence?

Actors : Christopher Guard, Julie Christie, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings,
Directors : David Gladwell,

Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion...

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 : Christine Kaufmann, Carole Bouquet, Ida Di Benedetto, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.

Actors : Viktor Kremlyov, Mayya Bulgakova, Lyudmila Efimenko, Ivan Mykolaichuk,
Directors : Yuri Ilyenko,

Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as ...

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Danis Katranidis, Kaiti Lambropoulou, Faidon Georgitsis,
Directors : Takis Vougiouklakis,

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 ...