Best Female Lead movies of 1989

Actors : Arun Bannerjee, Pradip Mukherjee, Shabana Azmi, Kali Bannerjee,
Directors : Aparna Sen,

Close to the holy River Ganga, an ancient tree provides shelter and comfort to Uma, a mute, orphan, Brahmin girl. Treated like a drudge by her cruel aunt, Uma is also cursed by a horoscope ...

Actors : Ângela Codeço, Maurício de Sousa, Roberto Guimarães, Lauro Lemos,
Directors : Dactoir Danialetto Júnior,

Family film with the cartoon characters of Monica's Gang (Turma da Mônica). Chuck Billy (Chico Bento) starts a radio station with some innovative programs, and the competition gets angry.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Wilson Lam, Pak-Cheung Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng,
Directors : Jing Wong,

Nurse Liang Shanbo (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) and Actress Zhu Yingtai (Maggie Cheung) are mismatched cousins who just inherited a rental home from their late relative. When they moved in, they ...

Actors : Cherie Gil, Dina Bonnevie, Eddie Gutierrez, Tonton Gutierrez,
Directors : Eddie Rodriguez,

When a conservative woman is possessed by a vengeful spirit, she becomes sexually promiscuous and seduces a lot of men.

Actors : María Vaner, José Andrada, Paulino Andrada, Norma Angeleri,
Directors : Osvaldo Andéchaga,

During the Football World Cup in 1978, Argentine the military dictatorship orders to vacate the small neighborhood named Manuel Dorrego, known as "hidden city", inhabited by hundreds of families living in poverty.

Actors : Gloria Romero, Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Miguel Rodriguez,
Directors : Elwood Perez,

Maggie (Nora Aunor), is an intelligent girl but a poor farmer's daughter. She dreams of going to college to become a doctor. To realize her dreams, her father, Damian, mortgages his farm to...

Actors : Lalita Pawar, Vikram Gokhale, Deepika, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Raj Dutta,

Football player, Vijay Saxena, has a sweetheart in Nisha. Both decide to get married and Nisha moves in with the Saxenas, which include Vijay's two younger brothers Kamal, who is studying ...

Actors : Banjô Ginga, Yuriko Yamamoto, Hiroko Emori, Hiromi Tsuru,
Directors : Takaaki Ishiyama,

Shoko and Maiko Ougi are apparently two ordinary schoolgirls in pursuit of graduating and having fun. Shii-chan is the more serious while Mai-chan is more fun-loving. In reality, the two ...

Actors : Norma Dell'Agnese, Megan Follows, Elliott Smith, Hanna Lee,
Directors : Allan King,

Award-winning actress Coleen Dewhurst is Molly Dushane, a hard-drinking, hard-living woman desperate for one last fling at life. Megan Follows is her daughter Micheline, an angry, ...

Actors : John Saxon, Charlene Dallas, Nicholas Guest, Catherine Bach,
Directors : Mark Byers,

Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system.

Actors : Olia Lazaridou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Stavros Tsiolis, Kostas Tsakonas,
Directors : Hristos Vakalopoulos,

A charismatic woman, death of tycoons Arabs, an assassin, a burglar, a fugitive hermit considered real authority on crime and the rooftops of Athens.

Actors : Yeardley Smith, Dana Andersen, John M. Jackson, Gene Butler,
Directors : Rafal Zielinski,

Jesse is nine months pregnant and lives with her underemployed husband Hank in a dilapidated mobile home in a rusty trailer park. During an afternoon of talk, Jesse discovers that Hank has ...

Actors : Augusto, Anne-Laure Luisoni, Rita Blanco, Maria Filomena,
Directors : Patricia Plattner,

A film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie just dumped her boyfriend, who's married and can see her just secretly twice a week. At this ...

Actors : M.V. Vasudeva Rao, Archana, Archana Puran Singh, Pavan Malhotra,
Directors : Buddhadev Dasgupta,

Bagh Bahadur is a 1989 Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta. The film is about a man who paints himself as a tiger and dances in a village in Bengal. The movie ...

Actors : Laird Stuart, Jefferson Black, Kaitlin Hopkins, Brian Tarantina,
Directors : Michele Noble,

A young girl runs away and is forced to become a prostitute.

Actors : Donald Burton, Federica Farnese, Gérard Manzetti, Dalila Di Lazzaro,
Directors : Bruno Gaburro,

A voyeuristic musician meets a seductive senator's wife who wants her husband and stepson out of the way...

Actors : Cynthia Pruitt, William Rice, Irma St. Paule, Doris Brent,
Directors : Michael Keenan,

A cabdriver follows her spiritual quest during a New York City heat wave.

Actors : Rafael Sánchez Navarro, Isela Vega, Russ Tamblyn, Stacey Shaffer,
Directors : Glenn Gebhard,

When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for the two to unearth the legend of a madman ...

Actors : Michael A. Miranda, Lawrence Bayne, Nadia Capone, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Robert Bergman,

A young girl who became frustrated in her desire to become an actress starts to work for a telephone-sex company. There she meets a fascinating man who has an obsession for music related ...

Actors : Anne Leroy, Pierre Aussedat, Anna Condo, Gilles Lotthe,
Directors : Timon Koulmasis,

Tells the story of Sara, a girl of Greek descent, who lives in a small village on the French Atlantic coast and dreams of traveling to the country of her ancestors. It tells the story of ...