Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Paul Scofield, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Reid, Lee Remick,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide they've come to live with them.

Actors : Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Liza Minnelli, James Coco,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her with to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for independence - and ...

Actors : Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand, Mirella Rancelot,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Pam Grier, Austin Stoker,
Directors : William Girdler,

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. ...

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 : Monique van de Ven, Hannah de Leeuwe, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.

Actors : Rez Cortez, Ruel Vernal, Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge.

Actors : Maribel Martín, Cristina Galbó, Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Narciso Ibáñez Serrador,

A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.

Actors : Ariane Heller, Barbra Streisand, Terry Smith, David Selby,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A bored housewife takes refuge in a fantasy world.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Judith Lowry, Roberta Wallach,
Directors : Paul Newman,

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Jean-Charles Tacchella,

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Bernadette Lafont, Guy Marchand, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and ...

Actors : Tania Busselier, Dyanne Thorne, Eric Falk, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile ...

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town....

Actors : Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

Actors : Katharine Ross, John Standing, Sam Elliott, Ian Hogg,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A millionaire, a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker, a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow...Five of the most powerful people in the world, and Maggie ...

Actors : Christina von Blanc, Rosa Palomar, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert,

A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her ...

Actors : Mario Scaccia, Mimsy Farmer, Jho Jhenkins, Maurizio Bonuglia,
Directors : Francesco Barilli,

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Donald Hotton, David Gautreaux, Trish Van Devere,
Directors : George Bowers,

A girl is haunted by a phantom hearse, which she believes is connected to her departed aunt, a witch with a bad reputation in town.