Best Female Lead movies of 1989

Actors : Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert LuPone, Richard Lynch, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

A New York hooker tries to keep her daughter out of the clutches of the mobsters she works for.

Actors : Hans Mosesson, Lena Olin, Viveka Seldahl, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Göran du Rées,

A few friends builds a sailing boat together. They plan trips and during the completion of the boat marriages crumble, new relations blossom and the boat burns. They rebuild it and the ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Avtandil Makharadze, Richard Berry, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Actors : Uttara Baokar, Shabana Azmi, Shreeram Lagoo, Aparna Sen,
Directors : Mrinal Sen,

One day a retired professor (Dr. Sreeram Lagoo) decides to go out for unknown work but don't come back, even there is no clue left behind. Family members, relatives and friends try hard but unable to come up with any satisfactory result.

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Soli Labbart, Hannu Lauri, Tiina Björkman,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

Actors : Lynn Redgrave, Karen Lorre, Tony Curtis, Steve Parrish,
Directors : Norman Thaddeus Vane,

The sultry midnight, late-night horror movie hostess, has the highest rated show on TV. Mr. B is scheming to steal the rights to the show. The tug of war begins and soon escalates into a ...

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Zeinab Abdo, Ayda Reyad, Naglaa Fathy,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

Follows the story of two lower-middle class women trying to survive with their dreams in 1980's Egypt.

Actors : Dan Bell, Lance August, Daniel Roebuck, Vivian Schilling,

A frustrated advertising executive is confused to receive a job assignment from her boss to write the screenplay to a horror film. Recruiting the help of her friends, a weekend camping ...

Actors : Carl Ridders, Jan Decleir, Hugo Van Den Berghe, Ann Petersen,
Directors : Hugo Claus,

The Heylen family's annual get-together to commemorate their mother derails completely.

Actors : John Wildman, Jason Blicker, Margaret Langrick, Liisa Repo-Martell,
Directors : Sandy Wilson,

Four Canadian girls skip off university to get to the wedding of one of their number's relatives across the border in Portland. After the event one stays on with a guy she's met, one ...

Actors : Rebecca Jenkins, Michael Ontkean, Luke Reilly, Chad Krowchuk,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when...

Actors : Martha Plimpton, Jami Gertz, George Peppard, Bruce Payne,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

A ballet dancer is affected with cancer.

Actors : Youssra, Hussein Fahmy, Hesham Selim, Youssef Chahine,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Actors : Helena Bergström, Percy Brandt, Amanda Ooms, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Carl-Gustav Nykvist,

An innocent and beautiful teenage girl, Linnea takes a garret room in Stockholm just before WWI. She begins work for a dour older man, but soon meets an interesting young woman, Anna, a ...

Actors : Cyril O'Reilly, Debbie Nassar, Maria Ford, Starr Andreeff,
Directors : Katt Shea,

A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life...

Actors : Karel Roden, Jitka Asterová, Ivana Chýlková, Libor Zídek,
Directors : Irena Pavlásková,

Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating ...

Actors : Nancy Allen, Dean Stockwell, Brad Hall, Danitra Vance,
Directors : Richard Martini,

Casey Falls is the assistant of commodity trader Peter Oak, but wants to get a license herself. When the diabolic Nike appears and promises to make her successful by use of her supernatural...

Actors : Ángela Molina, Manuel Bandera, María Barranco, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Jaime Chávarri,

In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really wants to steal Juan for himself, Juan is not interested and Mario resorts to a string of ...

Actors : Per Morberg, Helena Bergström, Helene Egelund, Ingvar Hirdwall,
Directors : Göran Carmback,

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Actors : Paul de Leeuw, John Leddy, Jasperina de Jong, Heidi Arts,
Directors : Ine Schenkkan,