Best Female Lead movies of 1981

Actors : Yeong-ha Lee, Ok-hie Jo, Jin Kyu Kim, Yeong-ran Kim,
Directors : Jang-ho Byeon,

Sang-ho and Suk compete for a position in a prestigious company and Suk succeeds in securing the job. As she consoles Sang-ho, the two fall in love. What she doesn't realize, however, is that Sang-ho is actually the son of a wealthy tycoon

Actors : Renzo Montagnani, Vanessa Hidalgo, Vincenzo Crocitti, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Claudio Giorgi,

A couple (Carati and Crocitti) has to rent a hotel room which is really a haunted house. Well, haunted is overstating it. Just old Renzo as a horny ghost who wants to get it on with Carati....

Actors : Dragan Nikolic, Alain Noury, Alida Valli, Maria Schneider,
Directors : Predrag Golubovic,

Story of a love affair between a Yugoslav in Paris looking for a film footage about recent history on WWII, and a French girl sculptor.

Actors : Corrie Huyser, Elize Lizamore, Elzette Maarschalk, Magda Beukes,
Directors : Daan Retief,

A woman and her two daughters are all in the hospital business but one particular woman has her revenge claws in for them for a thing that happened a long time ago

Actors : Maria Alves, Rodolfo Arena, Helena Ramos, Paulo Ramos,
Directors : Antônio Calmon,

Famous soap opera actress finds out her sexuality after breaking up with her former boyfriend, an important TV executive.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Anna Maria Ackermann, Michele Esposito, Mario Merola,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

A humble organ grinder is married to a barren woman. The pair would like to adopt a child but are too poor. Suddenly a miracle seems to happen:she's pregnant. Unfortunately the baby dies ...

Actors : Zhongxi Chen, Xu Chengxian, Qimin Wei, Yanfang Lu,

Set in the early stage after liberation of Shanghai, Chen Yi is delegated to be mayor and deals with a lot of economic and social issues.

Actors : Françoise Dorner, Louise Marleau, Alberta Watson, Lenore Zann,
Directors : Pierre-Alain Jolivet,

A downbeat story of life inside a women's prison. There is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see that a woman is soon to be admitted for killing a young boy, they begin to plan her murder.

Actors : Hannes Holm, José María Cañete, Gunnar Falk, Nadala Batiste,
Directors : Birgitta Svensson,

Eva is inter railing through Europe to meet her boyfriend Klaus in Amsterdam and then travel on to Spain. On the way, Bosse she joins and eventually falls in love with Eva.

Actors : Robert Fields, Jeannine Mestre, Pep Munné, Norman Briski,
Directors : Gonzalo Herralde,

Elena, a young Catalan translator, discovers that David, her former lover, is living in New York with a new girlfriend, where she will travel to try to win him back.

Actors : Ladislav Frej, Evelyna Steimarová, Dana Medrická, Dita Kaplanová,
Directors : Jirí Svoboda,

Thirteen-year-old Vendula (Dita Kaplanová) dozes off at school and dreams about her parents riding in a carriage dressed in their wedding clothes. The young teacher is angry with the girl ...

Actors : Loleh Bellon, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

A mature lady approaches a young actor and offers him a great amount of money to get acquainted with her lonely daughter, who suffers of an incurable illness. Eventually a true romance ...

Actors : Conceição Senna, Ronny Pires, Sasso Alano, Roberto Pires,
Directors : Roberto Pires,

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on ...

Actors : Rajendra Kumar, Rekha, Vinod Mehra, Nutan,
Directors : Saawan Kumar Tak,

Young and attractive Kunti has fallen in love with a young man by the name of Anil, and both intend to marry. They do get intimate which ends in Kunti getting pregnant. Kunti finds out that...

Actors : Rosina Malbouisson, Cláudio Cunha, Angelina Muniz, Luigi Picchi,
Directors : Jean Garret,

Young woman has many love affairs, after killing her husband.

Actors : David Warrilow, Bill Raymond, Ron Vawter, Kate Manheim,
Directors : Richard Foreman,

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.

Actors : Plamena Getova, Tzvetana Dyankova, Kiryakos Argiropulos, Grudi Kadiev,
Directors : Evgeni Mihailov,

A young actress in a country town is almost smashed under the burden of the wear and tear of life. She has problems with her parents, she is not happy with her love affairs, she faces ...

Actors : Pauline Teutscher, Grazia De Giorgi, Roger Beach, Marcella Petrelli,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

Nathalie (Marcella Petri) is the young, sheltered daughter of a wealthy businessman who discovers sex through intimate relations with her father's business partner. The partner plans to use...

Actors : Fred Schaffer, Bibiane Zeller, Ernst Konarek, Pavel Landovský,
Directors : Peter Patzak,

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun, and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".

Actors : Gaytri Choudhury, Bina Biswas, Himangshu Chattopadhyay, Beauti Bandyopadhyay,
Directors : Rajkumar Raychowdhury,

Story of a twin sisters as they go to a boarding school to study.