Best Female Lead movies of 1980

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Lara Wendel, Klaus Löwitsch, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gianni Barcelloni,

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. When she discovers that Viola...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Giuliano Gemma, Giancarlo Zanetti, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Actors : Joe Melia, Thorley Walters, Sheila Hancock, 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 : Kaneta Kimotsuki, Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Hiroshi Fukutomi,

Through the adventure in summer, a boy experiences meeting and parting with a friend.

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

Actors : Tim Choate, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Anne Baxter,
Directors : James Ivory,

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

Actors : Jon Finch, Mercedes Sampietro, Carmen Maura, Víctor Valverde,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to ...

Actors : Willy Pierre, Pierre Pradinas, Charlotte Kid, Dominique Pennors,
Directors : Jean-Henri Meunier,

What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the verge of breaking away from school, from the ...

Actors : Wladyslaw Kowalski, Dorota Stalinska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Barbara Sass,

Ewa is so desperate to become a well-known journalist that she can sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve her goal.

Actors : Leonora Fani, Marisa Mell, Gianni Dei, Dora Calindri,
Directors : Amasi Damiani,

A woman no longer young but equally fascinating is just drifting along, with the complicity of a Venice full of mystery and languid, in a story of passion with a man. The love story began ...

Actors : Carolyn Pickles, Sam Dale, Robert East, Elizabeth Bennett,
Directors : Richard Woolley,

Following a part-time prostitute's murder, two members of a communal household become suspects.

Actors : Hussein Fahmy, Nabila El Sayed, Nazim Shaarawy, Sabah,
Directors : Ahmed Yehia,

Hanan is a famous singer who meets an aspiring director named Ahmed, and soon they fall in love despite the age difference between them.

Actors : Olivier Mathot, Joëlle Le Quément, Lina Romay, Nadine Pascal,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

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Actors : Mariana Dornic, Christiana Fehrman, Rita de Cássia, Sandra Bréa,
Directors : Walter Hugo Khouri,

Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.

Actors : Junqin Ma, Zhen Qiao, Nong Li, Zhiao Ling,
Directors : Hongmei Zhang,

Scientists protect a high efficiency atomic battery from being used as an ultimate weapon.

Actors : Niño Muhlach, Celia Rodriguez, Vilma Santos, Marissa Delgado,

Narda (Vilma Santos) receives superhuman powers and becomes Darna. Darna and her child brother Ding (Niño Muhlach) start by fighting the Hawk Woman; next they face-off with the Giant, and ...

Actors : Anna Maria Rizzoli, Raf Luca, Giorgio Bracardi, Annie Belle,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

An Italian Baron, helped by aspiring actress, organizes a robbery on a train. The shot is successful, but the money will be invested badly and so they will put to work another plan.

Actors : Jutta Wachowiak, Slávka Budínová, Christine Gloger, Regimantas Adomaitis,

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities. The love between her and her fiancée enables her to survive the tribulations of her time ...