Best Female Lead movies of 1981

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 : Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Chris Robinson, Kathleen Nolan,
Directors : Vincent McEveety,

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

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 ...

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

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 : Brigitte Fossey, Rutger Hauer, Timothy Dalton, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : George Kaczender,

The film tells the story of the early life and rise to fame and fortune of French fashion designer Coco Chanel, beginning with her upbringing in an orphanage and training as a milliner, but...

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, Faidon Georgitsis, Kaiti Lambropoulou,
Directors : Takis Vougiouklakis,

Actors : Adam Ferency, Boguslaw Linda, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Barbara Grabowska,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker...

Actors : Thierry Lhermitte, Isabelle Adjani, Antoinette Moya, Bernard Crombey,
Directors : Jean-Loup Hubert,

Story of a cartoonist who decides to get married and have a family.

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 : 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 : Fred A. Keller, James McGuire, Margaret Chamberlain, Paul Flessa,
Directors : Frederick King Keller,

In turn-of-the-20th-century upstate New York, Winnie Foster, a 12-year-old girl, discovers a family living in the woods near her family's home who never ages thanks to a magical spring they...

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 : Viktor Proskurin, Evgeniy Lazarev, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Efremov,
Directors : Yuri Yegorov,

After 20 years classmates get together and discuss their unfulfilled dreams and unmet goals.

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

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 : Arne Lindtner Næss, Sunniva Lindekleiv, Howard Halvorsen, Lise Fjeldstad,
Directors : Laila Mikkelsen,

Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is ...

Actors : Aldine Muller, Jean Garret, Calu Caldine, Neide Ribeiro,
Directors : Ody Fraga,

The lonely Jeruza lives in a simple isolated house by the seaside with the siblings Cassandra and Ulisses and the family survives by selling handicrafts for a local store. Her husband, ...

Actors : Dane Clark, Joan Blondell, Michael Champion, Gloria Manon,
Directors : Joseph Van Winkle,

Viet Nam veteran decides to undergo transgender operation in the 1970's. Melodrama. Ok at best