Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Ken Metcalfe, Jeannie Bell, Pat Anderson, Stan Shaw,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.

Actors : Valeria Sabel, Daniela Giordano, Brett Halsey, Dick Randall,
Directors : Mario Bava,

John and Tina meet in a park one day. They immediately hit it off, go out on a date later that evening. The late that night, Tina's returns to her apartment with her expensive new dress ...

Actors : Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Max Fairchild,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to ...

Actors : Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Jonathan Kaplan, George Wagner,

In this satire on 70s B-movie industry, a young ditsy pretty blond arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. After some mishap, a shady agent finds her a job with a sleazy B-movie crew plagued by strange deadly accidents.

Actors : Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Actors : Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam, Rita Tushingham,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.

Actors : Beverly Garland, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Grodin, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Claudia Weill,

A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player...

Actors : Milton Selzer, Len Lesser, Melody Patterson, Gloria Grahame,
Directors : Philip S. Gilbert,

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. ...

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Laura Gemser, Karin Schubert, Don Powell,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her ...

Actors : Caroline Hildebrand, Keith Carradine, Kelly Bohanon, Kevin Hearst,
Directors : Peter Fonda,

During a time of waning global resources, a crew of young researchers travel into the future to escape an apocalypse before the shutdown of their time transfer project. They find that some ...

Actors : Andrea Montchal, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Greta Schmidt,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Zdena Studenková, Václav Voska, Vlastimil Harapes,
Directors : Juraj Herz,

In this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Bernard Le Coq, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean Chapot,

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : André Téchiné,

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Actors : Rachel Stefanopoli, Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family.

Actors : Víctor Alcázar, Judy Geeson, Aurora Bautista, Esperanza Roy,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.

Actors : Ni Tien, Norman Fell, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson,
Directors : Charles Bail,

When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find ...

Actors : Jacques Herlin, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Neriman Köksal, Ediz Hun, Sadettin Erbil, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,