Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Catherine Finn,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.

Actors : Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, 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 : Meena Kumari, Rehman, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Abrar Alvi,

A lowly servant, Bhootnath gets close to the wife of his employer, and narrates her story through his eyes and perspective.

Actors : Lyudmila Volynskaya, Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya,
Directors : Aleksandr Askoldov,

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Giraud, Michèle Mercier, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the second of the Angélique series, the heroine joins a group of bandits, rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman, and once again becomes entangled in politics and matters of the heart.

Actors : Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.

Actors : Despo Diamantidou, Maro Kodou, Stavros Xenidis, Giorgos Konstadinou,
Directors : Yorgos Tzavellas,

An unmarried couple in the strict Greek society of the 60s.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Giannis Malouhos, Giannis Gionakis,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when ...

Actors : Kôji Wada, Yôko Yamamoto, Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Hiroshi Noguchi,

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is ...

Actors : Grazyna Staniszewska, Urszula Modrzynska, Henryk Borowski, Andrzej Szalawski,
Directors : Aleksander Ford,

In the 15th century the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is facing a hard struggle against the neighboring Teutonic Order.Frequent clashes between the two powers finally culminate in 1410 with the Battle of Grunwald.

Actors : Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.

Actors : Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Vasilis Georgiadis,

The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.

Actors : George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, Olivia de Havilland,
Directors : Guy Green,

Upper class Americans Noel and Meg Johnson have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson. Clara suffered a head injury as a child which resulted in her being mentally disabled. ...

Actors : Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic, Miodrag Andric, Eva Ras,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Paolo Stoppa, Irina Demick, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...

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 : Jean-Claude Brialy, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Antonio Pietrangeli,

Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.

Actors : Panteleymon Krymov, Mayya Bulgakova, Zhanna Bolotova, Sergey Nikonenko,
Directors : Larisa Shepitko,

A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the ...