Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Manoj Kumar, Helen, Nanda, Pran,
Directors : Raja Nawathe,

Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they die...

Actors : Jenny Karezi, Lili Papayanni, Alekos Alexandrakis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Andreas meets Mika in Italy and they quickly fall in love and get married. However, upon their return to Greece, Andreas meets Mika's eccentric family and sees that living with them will ...

Actors : Sadri Alisik, Ayla Algan, Diclehan Baban, Handan Adali,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Black comedy about a girl who runs away from her rural village to Istanbul to become and actress and an old drunkard street photographer.

Actors : Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Kusunoki,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In June 1933, eight young women, who are close friends and members of the upper-class group at South Tower College, to graduate and start their adult lives. The film documents the years ...

Actors : Peter Brocco, Lee Grant, Shelley Winters, Peter Falk,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

Actors : Theano Ioannidou, Aleka Katselli, Giannis Fertis, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Actors : Igor Ilyinsky, Larisa Golubkina, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Brigitte Bardot, Nicolas Bataille, Dirk Sanders,
Directors : Louis Malle,

When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Jûkichi Uno, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Actors : Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer, Alberto Bonucci, Annette Stroyberg,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A lonely and bitter young heiress - jealous of her cousin's engagement to another woman - becomes dangerously obsessed with legends surrounding a vampire ancestor, who supposedly murdered the young brides of the man she loved.

Actors : Caroline Cartier, Bernard Musson, Olivier Rollin, Maurice Lemaître,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Wealthy and decadent industrialist Georges Radamante rules over a strange secret suicide cult and wants to achieve immortality by figuring out a way to share the biochemistry of a young ...

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Klaus Kinski, Janet Leigh, Robert Hoffmann,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Lee J. Cobb, Franco Nero, Tano Cimarosa,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie, but she is in fact the wife of Paolo Nicolosi, the only eyewitness of the murder. ...

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Spyros Kalogirou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

This is a story of two families, on the island of Crete, whose everlasting rivalry has split the inhabitants in two groups. In Chania, Crete the townspeople either defend the Fourtounakis ...

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly...

Actors : Paige Lee, Mary Marr, Gennadi Vernov, Mamie Van Doren,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Jenny Karezi, Mary Lalopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

In order to help her father who has financial problems, Tzeni agrees to a fake marriage with his political rival.