Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet,...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Feri Cansel, Sadri Alisik, Yusuf Sezgin, Erol Tas,
Directors : Nuri Ergün,

Ali baba is against the forty thieves.

Actors : Monica Nordquist, Liv Alsterlund, Björn Granath, 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.

Actors : Louis Quinn, Betty Anne Rees, Claudia Jennings, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Vernon Zimmerman,

Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current ...

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,...

Actors : Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr, Maciej Englert, Michal Grudzinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (...

Actors : Renato Romano, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ...

Actors : Feng Ku, Evelyne Kraft, Wei Tu Lin, Danny Lee,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

King Kong goes Hong Kong as a giant Himalayan beast tries to save a sexy Russia Tarzanette from a sleazy show-biz promoter. The action, locations set in India, and interracial romance made ...

Actors : Gabriele Lavia, Nino Segurini, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson,

Juliet Mills plays a young pregnant woman in San Francisco who is going to have the devil's baby during her strange possession. Richard Johnson shows up to help her... but what does he really want?

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 : Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, George Coulouris, Carla Gravina,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meaning psychologist lead Ippolita...

Actors : Barbara Capell, Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Andrés Resino,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a ...

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

Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.

Actors : Ana Carro, Brian Cary, Margarita Amuchástegui, Tina Austin,

A so-called "snuff" movie involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.

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 : Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Jill Bennett, Tom Conti,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...