Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Alexander Knox, Kenneth More, Suzy Kendall, Nigel Green,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

During the First World War, a female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans and steal the new French mustard gas formula.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Claire Ufland, Kim Novak, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Terence Young,

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire, James Olson,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Stefanie Powers stars as an American girl who goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer.

Actors : Vivian Weiss, Li Paelz, Rolf Eden, Ingrid Steeger,

A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe ...

Actors : Frank Bolger, Jackie Moran, Adele Rein, Babette Bardot,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to...

Actors : Artur Mlodnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Barbara Krafftówna,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has ...

Actors : Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa, Takahiro Tamura, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji, Akiko Wada,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Hsin Yen Chao, Lieh Lo, Yu Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The indomitable martial arts team of director Chang Cheh and stunt choreographer Liu Chia-liang continues the compelling saga of Golden Swallow from King Hu's Come Drink with Me in this ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Barbara Steele, Claudio Gora, Mario Brega,
Directors : Camillo Mastrocinque,

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the ...

Actors : Folco Lulli, Margarita Lozano, Sidonia Manolache, Paul Misai,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband

Actors : Giorgos Mihalakopoulos, Jenny Karezi, Faidon Georgitsis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Vasoula stays under the same roof and works for an old and rich lady as a secretary and companion. One day the old lady leaves for a trip and a girlfiend of Vasoula brings her boyfriend at home... Then the trouble begins..

Actors : Sandra Dee, Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams,
Directors : Jack Smight,

An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the ...

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Fritz Weaver, Katherine Crawford, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Guy Green,

The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.

Actors : Marie-José Nat, Danièle Barraud, Dominique Paturel, Jean-Pierre Cassel,

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ...

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Angelos Antonopoulos, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Pantelis Zervos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Mirto, a progressive teacher, is assigned to a backward village, where her ideas find opposition from the parents. She falls in love with Stephanos, the mayor's son, whom she marries. As ...

Actors : Julián Mateos, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent ...

Actors : Dina de Marco, Isabela Corona, Armando Calvo, Rosita Arenas,
Directors : Chano Urueta,

A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.

Actors : Barry Morse, Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ...

Actors : Cher, Steve Whittaker, Tom Nolan, Barbara London,
Directors : Alessio de Paola,

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