Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Pirkko Hämäläinen, Soli Labbart, Hannu Lauri, Tiina Björkman,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Carole Bouquet, Ida Di Benedetto, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.

Actors : Feng Ku, Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Many feel that this, one of the Shaw Studio's biggest moneymakers, is one of those rare sequels which superior to its original. In any case, the charming title hero is back in action, ...

Actors : Delhi Ganesh, Anju, Janagaraj, Jai Ganesh,
Directors : Fazil,

Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they receive a call from a kidnapper by a cross connection.

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 : 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.

Actors : Richard Sargent, Mariette Lévesque, Vanity, Don McLeod,
Directors : Alfred Sole,

A female model faces off against an ape on a tropical island.

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

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 : 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 : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Gainsbourg, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Claude Berri,

A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times.

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 : Antônio Fagundes, Jiro Kawarazaki, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Kyoko Tsukamoto,
Directors : Tizuka Yamasaki,

Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

Actors : Monte Markham, Arlene Golonka, Tony Lo Bianco, Karen Black,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Renée Saint-Cyr, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Comedy/detective story, involving a young hood on the run and a woman journalist who thinks he's a judge who will help her investigate a case she is covering.

Actors : Richard Anthony Crenna, Debra Karr, Ennio Girolami, Terry Baer,
Directors : Giannetto De Rossi,

The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.

Actors : Carole Bouquet, Ulli Lommel, Suzanna Love, Richard Hell,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and...

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 : 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.