Best Female Lead movies of 1961

Actors : Giani Esposito, Betty Schneider, Daniel Crohem, Françoise Prévost,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping ...

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Giannis Malouhos, Giannis Gionakis,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when ...

Actors : Sandra Dee, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, John Gavin,
Directors : Harry Keller,

Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This...

Actors : William Mayer, Marietta, Pat Reilly, Lester Brown,

A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women.

Actors : Maurice Marsac, Curt Lowens, Barbara Lass, Carl Schell,
Directors : Paolo Heusch,

At a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher.

Actors : Carol Lynley, Mary Astor, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : José Ferrer,

The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most ...

Actors : Roger Moore, Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Errol John,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

While the Nazi regime subjugates European Nations, in the Belgian Congo, Doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.

Actors : Aleksandr Lupenko, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Yelena Cheremshanova, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here....

Actors : Børge Møller Grimstrup, Ingrid Langballe, Karl Stegger, Hanne Borchsenius,
Directors : Poul Bang,

Comedy about the people in an apartment building.

Actors : Manos Katrakis, Irene Papas, Nikos Kazis, Maro Kodou,
Directors : Yorgos Tzavellas,

Antigone defies her uncle's decree that her traitorous brother should go unburied and therefore find no rest in the afterlife; however, her actions have tragic consequences.

Actors : Georges Wilson, Amédée, Charles Blavette, Alida Valli,
Directors : Henri Colpi,

Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. One day she thinks she recognizes him in a tramp walking past her establishment...

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.

Actors : Heinz Erhardt, Fritz Tillmann, Marika Rökk, Cornelia Froboess,
Directors : Ulrich Erfurth,

Actors : Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Omar El-Hariri,
Directors : Ezzel Dine Zulficar,

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Jeanne Crain, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Fernando Cerchio,

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Actors : Jean-Claude, Elola, Nadine, Denise,
Directors : Jean Rouch,

The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.

Actors : Lola Albright, Clarke Gordon, Joe De Santis, Scott Marlowe,
Directors : Alexander Singer,

An older woman seduces an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Disillusionment sets in when the boy discovers that she is a stripper.

Actors : Edith Zetline, Mireille Darc, Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who ...

Actors : Debbie Reynolds, Juliet Prowse, Andy Griffith, Steve Forrest,
Directors : Vincent Sherman,

In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Nobu McCarthy,
Directors : Charles Walters,

Out on a Limb, not out on a Leash.