Best Female Lead movies of 1980

Actors : Xiaoquan Gu, Zhenhai Kou, Zhi Cheng, Hongmei Chen,
Directors : Bili Yan,

Set in the period just after ten years of chaos, several love stories associated with the tourists on a bus indicate more meanings of love.

Actors : Dimitris Tsaftaridis, Alejandra Grepi, Tania Moshito, Rosana Caskan,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A beautiful woman is going to the island of Lesbos to rest, there she will meet two other beautiful young women and it will be great having sex with everyone.

Actors : Vijaya Kumaratunga, Indira Abeysena, Vasanthi Chathurani,
Directors : Darmasena Pathiraja,

An unmarried couple try to raise money for an abortion, set against the bustling backdrop of Colombo.

Actors : Kim Lockett, Nancy Samuels, Eleanor Forsythe, Kate Crutchley,
Directors : Tony Garnett,

A Birmingham prostitute leaves friends and family behind to seek her fortune in London. Back home, a sympathetic social worker and a solicitor form a support group to campaign for a change in the law.

Actors : Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuri Platonov, Larisa Malevannaya, Sergey Nikonenko,
Directors : Vladimir Grigorev,

Pozdnie Svidaniya (aka...'Late Rendezvous') is a story of a career woman in a midlife crisis.

Actors : Tonio Gutierrez, Lito Lapid, Metring David, Nora Aunor,
Directors : Mario O'Hara,

Since they were young, Oscar (Lito Lapid) and Laura (Nora Aunor) were already close to each other. Ever since childhood Laura was already abused by her Aunt and Uncle. One day, when Oscar ...

Actors : Johnny Dorelli, Gigi Proietti, Donatella Damiani, Monica Vitti,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is ...

Actors : Andrus Eelmäe, Lembit Eelmäe, Silvi Ait, Herta Elviste,
Directors : Jaan Tooming,

Mason Johannes Ööbik flees home to commit suicide. But instead begins a journey through Estonia, accompanied by a deep sense of hopelessness. Johannes is not one bit distinguishable from ...

Actors : Louise Hoven, Sally Julian, Linda Gillen, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Robert Mandel,

Young Mildred, a carhop waitress at O'Rear's Drive-In Theater, falls for Max, an egotistical bitter once-popular local high school football star.

Actors : Walter Carroll, Deborah DeSnoo, Lanny Broyles, Cliff Harrington,
Directors : Masayuki Akehi,

After years of beating Black Ghost all the 00 Cyborgs have moved ob with their lives going to their home country to persue a career they wanted to do. Dr. Gilmore and 001 have been living ...

Actors : Michelle Yim, Kwok-Hung Lam, Hing-Yin Kam, Yin Yin,
Directors : Kwok Yan Chung,

A woman is forced into prostitution.

Actors : Pelle Lindbergh, Gunvor Pontén, Anki Lidén, Lena Löfström,
Directors : Jan Halldoff,

A 15-year-old girl does not feel loved or seen by her parents and her absent boyfriend. When a nice holiday is discussed, but no money is available, she turns to the red light district in Stockholm.

Actors : Keiko Matsuzaka, Eiji Okuda, Tadashi Yokouchi,
Directors : Shigeyuki Yamane,

(Japanese with English subtitles) A tragic love story about a prostitute, Yuko and Seijyun, a young trainee monk. Based on a novel by Tsutomu Minakami, a Naoki Prize winner.

Actors : Erina Miyai, Yûko Ôsaki, Yûko Araragi, Yôko Azusa,
Directors : Naosuke Kurosawa,

Saeko, a somewhat enigmatic young woman, is brutally beaten with a rock and raped by a man wearing a dark-colored mask and black gloves. She eventually recovers, but not long afterwards a ...

Actors : Olivier Mathot, Françoise Blanchard, Thizou Durand, France Lomay,
Directors : Jean-Claude Strömme,

The story of a murder in a bourgeois provincial family.

Actors : Nobuyuki Inoue, Erina Miyai, Rei Asô, Ayako Ôta,
Directors : Toshiharu Ikeda,

A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend...

Actors : Khoren Abrahamyan, Sos Sargsyan, Tatyana Bozhok, Ara Manukyan,
Directors : Arnold Agababov,

Small group of Armenian construction workers leave for Siberia to earn money. They enter into complex and uneasy relations with the local Siberians.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Trevor Howard, James Faulkner, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Francis Megahy,

A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to interview them. She arrives and decides to stay with them until the girls are released.

Actors : Bruno Pischiutta, Irma Olivero,
Directors : Bruno Pischiutta,

Vietnam veteran goes to die in Venice of alcoholism.

Actors : Rimante Krilaviciute, Gunars Cilinskis, Olgerts Dunkers, Ivars Kalnins,
Directors : Gunars Cilinskis,

Latvia, 1930s. Without success a poor rural girl, Elsa, looks for work in Riga. Unexpectedly, she gets proposal from a rich but old businessman. Elsa agrees to marry him in the hope for a ...