Best Female Lead movies of 1968

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, Omar Sharif,
Directors : William Wyler,

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Milo O'Shea, Anita Pallenberg, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Sigge Fürst, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

Actors : Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Lucille Ball, Louise Troy,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Kate Harrington, James Olson,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Peggy Ashcroft, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother, and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness, in this powerful psychological thriller.

Actors : Roger Mutton, Marianne Faithfull, Marius Goring, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.

Actors : Richard Burton, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Christian Marquand,

Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Doris Day, Pat Carroll, Brian Keith,
Directors : Howard Morris,

Two widowed people fall in love and marry, unprepared for the hostile reactions of their children.

Actors : Anthony Kemp, Sándor Pécsi, László Kozák, Mari Töröcsik,
Directors : Zoltán Fábri,

In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence. Just when things do get out of hand, however, ...

Actors : James Fox, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...

Actors : Bruce Dern, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Richard Rush,

A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Izzet Günay, Semih Sezerli, Ayfer Feray, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

My Prostitute Love is a 'realist melodrama' that represents the sentiment of 60s' Istanbul in an authentic way. Poetically written and carefully crafted in cinematography, it juxtaposes the...

Actors : Phil Silvers, Shelley Winters, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia.

Actors : Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Joanna Shimkus, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

Actors : Calvin Lockhart, Christian Doermer, Geneviève Waïte, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Sarne,

A provincial girl is entangled in the mod morality of London.

Actors : Norma Lazareno, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Marga López,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

Girls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jacques Santi, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the fifth and final of the Angélique series, the beautiful heroine is sold into a sultan's harem.