Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Willy Braque, John Rico, Paul Bisciglia,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

Actors : Shirley Washington, Trina Parks, Edna Richardson, Bettye Sweet,
Directors : William Witney,

Syreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Micheline Presle, Brigitte Bardot, Michael J. Pollard,

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

Actors : Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis, Susan George,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

Actors : Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

Actors : Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley, Patricia Haines,
Directors : Ray Austin,

Christine gets her big chance at modeling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a house in the country for the weekend for a photo ...

Actors : Kote Daushvili, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili, Lika Kavjaradze,
Directors : Tengiz Abuladze,

This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...

Actors : Petra Cernocká, Vlastimil Zavrel, Jan Hrusínský, Jan Kraus,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the ...

Actors : Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Chantal Contouri, Henry Silva,
Directors : Rod Hardy,

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

Actors : Carlo Gentili, Simón Andreu, Nieves Navarro, Pietro Martellanza,
Directors : Luciano Ercoli,

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally ...

Actors : Antonio de Cabo, Antonio Mayans, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.

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

Madicken never means for anything to go wrong, but somehow it gets that way. Neither this time, when her little sister got a concussion, and it's not her fault that she puts a pea up her own nose.

Actors : Fred Delmare, Heidemarie Wenzel, Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder,
Directors : Heiner Carow,

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. ...

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 : Ray Lovelock, Barry Primus, Mimsy Farmer, Carlo Cattaneo,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.

Actors : Susan Hemingway, Herbert Fux, Ana Zanatti, William Berger,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women...

Actors : Benjamin Smith, Graham Crowden, Laurence Naismith, Dorothy Alison,
Directors : Lionel Jeffries,

A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the ...

Actors : Jovita Bush, Brandy Woods, Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway,
Directors : Paul Glickler,

A group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.

Actors : Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Vincent Gardère, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.