Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Alain Delon,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

Actors : Michael Crawford, Barbra Streisand, Marianne McAndrew, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Gene Kelly,

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

Actors : Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Bernhard Wicki,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Actors : Paul Fix, Daria Halprin, G.D. Spradlin, Mark Frechette,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

At Zabriskie Point, United State's lowest point, two perfect strangers meet; an undergraduate dreamer and a young hippie student who start off an unrestrained romance, making love on the dusty terrain.

Actors : Michael Callan, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Dwayne Hickman,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Actors : Alan Bates, Terence Stamp, Julie Christie, Peter Finch,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Actors : Anne-Marie Jelinek, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine, Mbissine Thérèse Diop,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

Actors : Jûkichi Uno, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Eli Wallach, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Griffith,
Directors : William Wyler,

Romantic comedy about a woman who must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries, and the man who helps her.

Actors : Paul Hébert, Marie Cardinal, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Nadine Nortier,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

Mouchette is a young girl living in the country. Her mother is dying and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette remains silent in the face of the humiliations she undergoes. One ...

Actors : Henri Serre, Oskar Werner, Vanna Urbino, Jeanne Moreau,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Actors : Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Actors : Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

Actors : Brigitte Bardot, Giorgia Moll, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave, Megs Jenkins,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Miriam Hopkins, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Janette Scott, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Kieron Moore,

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Actors : Guylaine Schlumberger, Anna Karina, André S. Labarthe, Sady Rebbot,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Actors : Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.