Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : Edward Fox, Michael Callan, Wendy Hiller, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

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 : Valentina Telichkina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Larisa Kuznetsova,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.

Actors : Ines Pellegrini, Martine Brochard, Andrés Mejuto, John Richardson,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A maniac killer in a red cape and hood is killing off American tourists on a tour bus by gouging out their eyeballs.

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ...

Actors : Gloria Guida, Vincenzo Crocitti, Ray Lovelock, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to ...

Actors : Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Brown,
Directors : Barney Platts-Mills,

The childish love story between a young depressive girl and a talented young writer and the first steps into their adult life.

Actors : José María Prada, Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Vivó,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

The young but travelled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family: the matriarch is a sick old woman obsessed by ...

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.

Actors : Howard Ross, Ligia Branice, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these ...

Actors : Zeynep Degirmencioglu, Semra Sar, Metin Serezli, Ömercik,
Directors : Temel Gürsu,

Turkish Pollyanna's story.

Actors : Laszlone Horvath, László Horváth, Gábor Kun, Gábor Ifj. Kun,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

The breakdown of the relationship of a couple by living in a flat of the husband's parents.

Actors : Lynn Monteil, Jesús Franco, Catherine Lafferière, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A madman conducts a private inquisition to exorcise demons by torturing women to death.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Pigott-Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical ...

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Actors : Saira Banu, Sulakshana Pandit, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Popular Indian leading man Amitabh Bachchan stars in HERA PHERI, a campy Bollywood musical melodrama about faded friendships and family secrets. Best friends Vijay (Bachchan) and Ajay (...

Actors : Daniel Grimm, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Jean Rougeul,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ...