Best Female Lead movies of 1979

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, P.J. Soles, Dey Young, Clint Howard,

A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

Actors : Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Bette Midler,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

Actors : John Collin, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A strong-willed young peasant girl becomes the affection of two men.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Scott Brady, Michael Douglas,
Directors : James Bridges,

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Tisa Farrow, Al Cliver, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Gisela Uhlen, Ivan Desny, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.

Actors : Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Paul Sand, Ryan O'Neal, Whitman Mayo,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.

Actors : Mel Gibson, Pat Evison, Piper Laurie, Alwyn Kurts,
Directors : Michael Pate,

A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuse his naiveté. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.

Actors : Ann Marie, Ken Kerr, June Mack, Kitten Natividad,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna & Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not ...

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Clu Gulager, Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Talia Shire, John Belushi, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Joan Tewkesbury,

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Actors : Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive ...

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of ...

Actors : Barbara Bach, Beryl Cunningham, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.

Actors : Kathryn Walker, Trini Alvarado, John Lithgow, Jeremy Levy,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

Actors : Paola Morra, Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giulio Berruti,

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital,...