Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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

Ali baba is against the forty thieves.

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 : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marino Masé, Marina Malfatti,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...

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

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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 : Rialda Kadric, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Vladimir Petrovic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

Two teenagers - boy from the rural and girl from the urban family - fall in love. Problems arise when the girl gets pregnant. This movie was the first in one of the most popular series in ...

Actors : Claude Gauthier, Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost,
Directors : Michel Brault,

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Actors : Louis Nye, Ronny Cox, Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray,

Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Now most of the townspeople, particularly on the PTA board, think that she is a little too liberal and liberated for ...

Actors : Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Actors : Kerem Yilmazer, Nazan Adali, Hülya Koçyigit, Ali Sen,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. ...

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Hiram Keller, Venantino Venantini, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

Actors : Angelo Infanti, Laura Gemser, Isabelle Marchall, Karin Schubert,
Directors : Bitto Albertini,

In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity ...

Actors : Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Myriam Boyer, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Alain Tanner,

The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" ...