Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Amol Palekar, Zeenat Aman, Utpal Dutt,
Directors : Bharat Rangachary,

Mr. Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle in a mansion named 'Ashiana' on 10th Road, Juhu, Bombay, with his only relative, a niece by the name of Nisha, who is unmarried and runs the family's ...

Actors : Alice Garner, Harold Hopkins, Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels,
Directors : Ken Cameron,

A frank portrayal of a year in the life of a divorced mother living in Melbourne, trying to cope with her daughter and her own relationship with a drug addict while trying to get into the music business.

Actors : Yenny Farida, Harry Capri, Enny Beatrice, Nina Anwar,
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 : 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 : Carlos Kroeber, Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Raul Cortez, Aida Leiner,
Directors : Sergio Toledo,

Young girl spends her adolescence in an institution for minors, developing some masculine traits in her personality. In this hostile environment, she can only find some sympathy in a ...

Actors : Gianfranco Manfredi, Gilla Novak, Lorenzo Lena, Monica Guerritore,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.

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 : Antonio Mayans, Carmen Carrión, Muriel Montossé, Asunción Calero,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Emmanuelle is recently reunited with her husband, but at the next party, she gets drunk and strips nude for his friends. He returns to his lover. Later, a sober Emmanuelle tries to redeem ...

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

Actors : Michael McKeever, Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Linda Singer, Jeremy Ratchford,
Directors : Jim Hanley,

K.C. and Jo are two hardened female ex-cons who decide to build a marina on a lake in backwoods Texas to start a life for themselves, only to be hassled by the redneck locals who do not ...

Actors : Béláné Csóka, Carol Harrison, Ágnes Kamondy, László Földes,
Directors : János Xantus,

A pianist falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this situation won't stand.

Actors : Inna Churikova, Svetlana Ryabova, Mariya Golubkina, Yelena Bogdanova,
Directors : Vyacheslav Krishtofovich,

In a small urban flat, grandma, mom, and two daughters live in partial harmony. Grandma is bed-ridden and mute, but rings a bell above her head. Her daughter Nina, a museum docent, misses ...

Actors : Azat Gasparyan, Mher Mkrtchyan, Galya Novents, Elina Agamyan,
Directors : Albert Mkrtchyan,

The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.

Actors : Kari Sorvali, Mari Rantasila, Åke Lindman, Jari Järvimaa,
Directors : Lauri Törhönen,

Two small-time crooks take off to Florida to escape unpaid taxes and failure.

Actors : Piotr Wawrzynczak, Bernadetta Machala-Krzeminska, Paulina Mlynarska, Dariusz Dobkowski,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the ...

Actors : Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Tamara Syomina, Natalya Gundareva, Mher Mkrtchyan,
Directors : Samson Samsonov,

Middle-aged woman organizes a marriage agency directly in the female dormitory with mustachioed commandant.

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 : Jack Taylor, Jean-René Gossart, Karin Schubert, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Pierre Chevalier,

A squad of female mercenaries take on an organization called Space Clean, which is dedicated to stopping space exploration.

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 : Gabriele Gori, Karin Well, Jessica Moore, Eva Grimaldi,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, ...