Best Female Lead movies of 1986

Actors : Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Paul Nicholas,

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.

Actors : Ali Poyrazoglu, Nuran Oktar, Hümeyra, Müjde Ar,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A critique of the role of the male in modern Italian society and has demonstrated the possibility of a form of 'female bonding' between women who live, by choice, in a world without men

Actors : Denis Bernard, Mahée Paiement, Doris Blanchet-Vasiloff, Véronique Lavoie,
Directors : André Mélançon,

Fanny is a young orphan girl who is sent to live with her detached Uncle Jonathan when her grandmother enters a nursing home. As Jonathan prepares for an organ recital of music by Bach, he ...

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Rita Tushingham, Olivia d'Abo, Jessica Steen,
Directors : Paul Lynch,

Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnasics tournaments anymore. Shattered dreams. She lives with her mother and bad ...

Actors : LeeAnne Baker, George Anthony-Rayza, Michael Conte, Jacquie Fitz,
Directors : Bruce Hickey,

Reincarnated "Satanic Witch" from New Amsterdam, circa 1600's comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people.

Actors : Nana Patekar, Rabia Amin, Raja Bundela, Arjun Chakraborty,
Directors : N. Chandra,

Four unemployed young men befriend their new neighbors, but soon tragedy strikes and everything is shattered.

Actors : Michael Cronin, Hiro Arai, Irina Brook, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Actors : Alberto Di Stasio, Fabio Sartor, Francesca Topi, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Piero Schivazappa,

Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna, Ángela Molina, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

Lola, a factory worker, finally decides to run away from Mario, the drunk and aggressive man she loves. That same night she has a love affair with Roberto, a French rich man. Eventually ...

Actors : Moira Sinise, Christopher Cazenove, Timothy Bottoms, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

When an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a stranger. Coincidentally, the city is being plagued by a serial killer who uses this method to ...

Actors : Eduardo Pavlovsky, Gerardo Romano, Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a popular ...

Actors : Keve Hjelm, Elisabeth Granneman, Vibeke Løkkeberg, Terence Stamp,
Directors : Vibeke Løkkeberg,

In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame.

Actors : Mollie O'Mara, Sharon Christopher, Mari Butler, Beth O'Malley,
Directors : John P. Finnegan,

Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.

Actors : Courtney Thorne-Smith, Cristen Kauffman, Mariska Hargitay, JoAnn Willette,
Directors : Terry Carr,

Three young women looking for adventure get jobs on a dude ranch.

Actors : Sabine Azéma, Jacques Nolot, Richard Anconina, Hélène Surgère,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

Actors : Marianna Vertinskaya, Elena Solovey, Aleksandr Zbruev, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Vyacheslav Krishtofovich,

A lonely woman, who is desperately tired of her lonesome, posts a message that she wishes to meet someone. A man answers this message, who seems to have nothing in common with the woman. ...

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