Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Eli Wallach, Pola Negri, Hayley Mills, Peter McEnery,
Directors : James Neilson,

British musicologist Frances Ferris and her late teen niece Nicky Ferris are traveling through Crete recording Greek folk songs for the BBC. In the usually quiet coastal town of Aghios ...

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

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

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 : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Giannis Gionakis, Giannis Malouhos,
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 : 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 : 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 : Robert Hossein, Jacques Toja, Michèle Mercier, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the third of the Angélique series, the heroine is sent on a mission by King Louis XIV, and later finds herself the subject of rumors.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Maria Rohm, Jack Taylor, Marie Liljedahl,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An innocent girl goes to spend the weekend on an island with a woman and her brother, but soon she finds herself entangled in a web of dream-like sexual experiments.

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 ...

Actors : Natalya Fateeva, Natalya Kustinskaya, Andrey Mironov, Evgeniy Zharikov,
Directors : Genrikh Oganisyan,

Three men vacation on a deserted beach near The Black Sea, trying to get away from women and society. However, two women arrive and try to claim the vacation spot as their own. The groups scheme to run each other off the beach.

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 : 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 : 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 : Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, 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 : 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 : 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 : Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Alex Cord, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

On the stagecoach to Cheyenne, a mixed group of passengers must work together to survive the arduous journey and the Indian attacks.

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 : 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 : 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 ...