Best Female Lead movies of 1980s

Actors : Henry Gibson, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.

Actors : Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Geneviève Lemon, Jon Darling,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.

Actors : Cher, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as his ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.

Actors : Randall Batinkoff, Molly Ringwald, Miriam Flynn, Kenneth Mars,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.

Actors : Jerry Levine, Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen,
Directors : Geneviève Robert,

While attending a singles retreat, two female friends-- one promiscuous, the other unlucky with men-- share their philosophies on love, sex, men, and dating in the wake of the 1980s AIDS epidemic.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Jackie Burroughs, Sunny Besen Thrasher, Georgia Engel,
Directors : Arna Selznick,

The Care Bears watch over a young brother and sister who have lost their trust in humanity. Meanwhile an evil wizard wishes to cover the Earth in concrete.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Jeff East, Susan Buckner, Maren Jensen,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

Actors : Vesa Vierikko, Esko Nikkari, Elina Salo, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who...

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Basaraba, Arthur Hill, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about.

Actors : Dean Cameron, Richard Lynch, Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott,
Directors : Andrew Fleming,

The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.

Actors : Louise Portal, Pierre Curzi, Dorothée Berryman, Dominique Michel,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

Actors : Ryo Hiruma, Luis Hostalot, Gonzalo Suárez, Carmen Maura,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

In Madrid, the housewife Gloria lives in a tiny apartment with her husband, the taxi driver and forger Antonio; her lunatic mother-in-law, who is addicted in bottled water and cupcakes; and...

Actors : Marie-Anne Chazel, Anémone, Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.

Actors : Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

Actors : Donovan Scott, Ted Wass, Tanya Roberts, Elizabeth of Toro,
Directors : John Guillermin,

Sheena grew up in the African wild, raised by a mystical witch woman. When her foster mother is framed for a murder Sheena is forced to flee, helped by her ability to talk to animals and her knowledge of the jungle.

Actors : Joe Flood, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Kristen Riter,

A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.

Actors : Gail Neely, Dawn Wildsmith, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner,
Directors : Peter George,

When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.

Actors : Ji Liu, Li Gong, Rujun Ten, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds...

Actors : Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan,

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.