Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

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 : Giuppy Izzo, Francesca Florio, Luca Lionello, Barbara Blanc,
Directors : Carlo Cotti,

The story of a teenager whose biggest dream is to marry Simon Le Bon, singer of pop band Duran Duran.

Actors : Rafal Wegrzyniak, Hanna Skarzanka, Krystyna Janda, Krzysztof Zaleski,
Directors : Radoslaw Piwowarski,

Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very mature son.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Carol Alt, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Renée Simonsen,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.

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 : Jirina Bohdalová, Josef Dvorák, Zaneta Fuchsová, Daniela Kolárová,
Directors : Jindrich Polák,

Actors : Mimika Luca, Mira Minga, Elvira Diamanti, Xhevdet Ferri,
Directors : Dhimiter Anagnosti,

To meet the desires and needs of the parents, a marriage is arranged between 14-year-old Gjino and 20-year-old Marigo. Gjino reluctantly obeys, but Marigo, who loves another, tries various ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Imanol Arias, Ana Belén, Esperanza Roy,
Directors : José Luis García Sánchez,

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.

Actors : Rhonda Shear, Will Nye, Ann Dusenberry, Angela Aames,
Directors : Andrew Sugerman,

Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative ...

Actors : Melanie Mayron, Adam Shaw, Helen Slater, Shirley Stoler,
Directors : Catlin Adams,

Two girls try hard to find job as musicians. One of them play the cello and the other the violin. They have very little money, even to pay the rent. One day a friend (who is a drug dealer) ...

Actors : Gianfranco D'Angelo, Corinne Cléry, Maurizio Micheli, Eva Grimaldi,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Mechthild Großmann, Carola Regnier, Sheila McLaughlin, Udo Kier,

Wanda ist von Berufs wegen grausam. Ihre Spezialitaet: das Erfinden von Fallen fuer ihre Liebhaber/innen. Gregor, der romantische Schwaermer, wird aus seinem Traum gerissen. Justine, die ...

Actors : Anna Samokhina, Valentin Gaft, Boris Shcherbakov, Vladimir Steklov,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Elena Safonova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko,
Directors : Igor Maslennikov,

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.

Actors : Gerard Thoolen, Kitty Courbois, Ester Spitz, Frank Rigter,
Directors : Kees Van Oostrum,

15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to ...

Actors : Mathieu Carrière, Marina Pierro, Josy Bernard, Isabelle Tinard,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.

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 : Rhonda Selesnow, Patrick Kirton, Joel Bennett, Emily Longstreth,
Directors : Krishna Shah,

The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.

Actors : Sarah Michelle Gellar, Richard Lynch, Robert LuPone, 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 : Silvia Seidel, Patrick Bach, Günther Maria Halmer, Jon Peterson,
Directors : Frank Strecker,

The story of young ballerina Anna, as she becomes a professional dancer and is ready to leave Munich and move across the Atlantic to New York.