Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Sarne,

A provincial girl is entangled in the mod morality of London.

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 : Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Anna Quayle,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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 : Robert Hossein, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jacques Santi, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the fifth and final of the Angélique series, the beautiful heroine is sold into a sultan's harem.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Labros Konstadaras, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they ...

Actors : Roger Pigaut, Robert Hossein, Christian Rode, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the fourth of the Angélique series, the heroine sets sail in hopes of discovering the truth about a man she once loved and lost.

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 : 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 : Jack Hawkins, Hans Verner, Sophia Loren, Peter Finch,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

Beautiful woman who survived concentration camp goes to Israel in 1948 to track down Nazi husband who betrayed her.

Actors : Catherine Allégret, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, ...

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

Actors : Sadri Alisik, Handan Adali, Diclehan Baban, Ayla Algan,
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 : 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 : Micheline Presle, Sandra Dee, John Lund, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Henry Levin,

Rich socialite Chantal marries Eugene, a photographer, and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.

Actors : Igor Ilyinsky, Larisa Golubkina, Yuriy Yakovlev, Nikolay Kryuchkov,
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 : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Labros Konstadaras, Stavros Xenidis,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.

Actors : Tatyana Yukina, Anatoli Kubatsky, Olga Yukina, Tatyana Barysheva,
Directors : Aleksandr Rou,

Olya steps through the mirror into the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors where Yalo resides. The kingdom, under the rule of King Yagupop LXXVII (reverse of Popugay, meaning parrot) produces ...

Actors : Hloi Liaskou, Lili Papayanni, Labros Konstadaras, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

About Aleka who is obsessed with playing cards and the efforts of her husband to make her quit this bad "habit".

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.