Best Female Lead movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Robert Loggia, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Chagall,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...

Actors : Robert Fields, Paulina Porizkova, Gibby Brand, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Yurek Bogayevicz,

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...

Actors : Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Louise Kirtland, Teresa Wright,
Directors : James Ivory,

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Joanne Woodward, Tresa Hughes, Sylvia Sidney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ...

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Actors : Trevor Howard, Glenda Jackson, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Barry Morse, Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ...

Actors : Gene Kelly, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Binnie Barnes,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

Forty year old Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley owns her own Manhattan based real estate agency specializing in upscale Manhattan apartments. She lives with her seventeen year old ...

Actors : Carlos Romero, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Celia Milius,
Directors : James B. Clark,

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

Actors : Franco Nero, Mark Burns, Joanna Shimkus, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Christopher Miles,

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted ...

Actors : Monique Leyrac, Donald Sutherland, Sharon Acker, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Paul Almond,

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Jan Niklas,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Actors : Timothy West, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Peter Eyre,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a ...

Actors : Carmen Amaya, Daniel Martín, Sara Lezana, Antonio Gades,
Directors : Francisco Rovira Beleta,

A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Barbara Hershey, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Sam Groom,
Directors : James Bridges,

Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She...

Actors : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...

Actors : Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves,
Directors : Walter Grauman,

A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.