Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Jayne Hamil, Ginger Lynn, Linnea Quigley, Scott Layne,
Directors : Rick Sloane,

Two rookie cops pose as strippers to get the drop on a villainess plotting to spike L.A.'s water with aphrodisiacs

Actors : Candie Evans, Becky LeBeau, Farley Maynard, Kitten Natividad,
Directors : Ed Hansen,

A school for strippers is in financial trouble. They audition for The Big Strip Joint Owner, and he's pleased, except that the new girl can't make herself take her clothes off. After ...

Actors : Martin Mull, Deanne Henry, Valri Bromfield, Stephen E. Miller,
Directors : Rex Bromfield,

Nurse and con artist Belle Haimes (Valri Bromfield) lives with her dull-witted husband Rex Haimes (Stephen E. Miller) in the Hart Mansion in British Columbia. There she cares for the ...

Actors : Smaïn, Julie Jézéquel, Patrick Braoudé, Pascal Légitimus,
Directors : Serge Meynard,

This is an intelligent and sarcastic movie about daily racism. Our heroes are the painter Denise Santrose and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, who seek an apartment in Paris, France. Both ...

Actors : Takenori Matsumura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Midori Kiuchi,
Directors : Kôhei Oguri,

Period drama set in the 1950's about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair.

Actors : Charito Solis, Lorna Tolentino, Rio Locsin, Alma Moreno,
Directors : Ishmael Bernal,

The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs...

Actors : Milan Simácek, Dagmar Havlová, Zaneta Fuchsová, Pavel Zednícek,
Directors : Jindrich Polák,

Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their parents divorce and ruin Christmas? Will a scientist find a way to use their pets as fuel? Live action film with stop-motion octopuses.

Actors : Stéphane Ferrara, Kim Rossi Stuart, Tomas Arana, Brigitte Nielsen,
Directors : Ivana Massetti,

A girl in the video industry travels with a jeweled turtle and makes Billie Holliday videos. Though having relations with some of her friends, she is looking for love. She begins getting ...

Actors : Christopher Guard, Julie Christie, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings,
Directors : David Gladwell,

Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion...

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Rafael Moleón,

Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. He's a gigolo who moves in with Isabel, wealthy and separated from her husband. She has ...

Actors : Marijke Merckens, Marc Hazewinkel, Nada van Nie, Hans Man in 't Veld,
Directors : Ruud van Hemert,

A nun escapes the convent to discover the real world outside. Her parents however believe that she's kidnapped.

Actors : Jeff Hutchinson, Shaun Michelle, Suzanne Solari, Katina Garner,
Directors : Donald G. Jackson,

In a futuristic society, rebels fighting against a fascist state are aided by a group of roller-skating nuns called the Bod Sisters.

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

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Actors : Carl Quist Møller, Sofie Gråbøl, Torben Jensen, Vigga Bro,
Directors : Astrid Henning-Jensen,

A movie based of a book, follows a young girl named Ester, and her family and friends as poor danish citizens, in a rough area of Copenhagen in the 1930's.

Actors : Berugo Carambula, Moria Casán, Gino Renni, Emilio Disi,
Directors : Miguel Fernández Alonso,

Actors : Minako Ohashi, Bill Bonham, Ken Nakagawa, Mitzi Abe,
Directors : Steven Okazaki,

When her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.

Actors : Yasuyo Shirashima, Miho Miyazawa, Miho Tsumiki, Hiroko Nakajima,
Directors : Shun Nakahara,

The film offers a glimpse at a group of school girls who are very flexible in terms of gender roles, playing males both in the school play and in real life. A modern-day all girls high ...

Actors : Kaz Garas, Carmen Argenziano, Deborah Tranelli, Bill McLaughlin,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A beautiful woman seeks revenge for tragedy forced upon her family.

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 : Evelyne Pieiller, Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across ...