Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Spiros Andros, Charles Boyer, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Janet Brandt, Rebecca Dianna Smith, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother...

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Michael Fremer, Harry Shearer, Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

The animal kingdom stages its own olympic games.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Actors : Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Bernice Stegers, Roberto Posse,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.

Actors : Alice Arno, Monica Swinn, Jack Taylor, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.

Actors : Jean Servais, Daniel Emilfork, Erika Blanc, Jacques Monseau,
Directors : Jean Brismée,

Six of seven tourists in a east European castle overnight are victims of a helper of the devil. Is Satan willing to spare their souls?

Actors : Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Gérard Darrieu, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Joël Séria,

Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a ...

Actors : Jean-Guy Latour, Dyanne Thorne, Michel-René Labelle, Gilbert Beaumont,
Directors : Jean LaFleur,

Erotic adventure in Siberia.

Actors : Mari Töröcsik, Iván Darvas, Lili Darvas, Erzsi Orsolya,
Directors : Károly Makk,

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

Actors : Yuka Mizuno, Naozo Kato, Chia-Hui Liu, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted ...

Actors : Elena Solovey, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Oleg Basilashvili, Rodion Nahapetov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the ...

Actors : Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : Christopher Lee, Maria Rohm, Marie Liljedahl, Jack Taylor,
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 : Macha Magall, Xiro Papas, Edilio Kim, Gino Turini,
Directors : Luigi Batzella,

This is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities. A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, ...

Actors : Monica Nordquist, Björn Granath, Liv Alsterlund, Jonna Liljendahl,
Directors : Göran Graffman,

Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily with her family, experiencing the world and making brave and crazy things.