Best Female Lead movies of 1974

Actors : Faith Domergue, John Ireland, John Carradine, Carole Wells,
Directors : Paul Harrison,

A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), ...

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Willy Braque, John Rico, Paul Bisciglia,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

Actors : Suzanna Hamilton, Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Simon West,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise...

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 : 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 : Jean Martin, Michael Lonsdale, Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through ...

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 : Agah Hün, Meral Taygun, Canan Perver, Cihan Ünal,
Directors : Metin Erksan,

A little girl is possessed by a demon.

Actors : Mária Bajcsay, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras, Mari Töröcsik,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Brigitte Borghese, Annie Belle,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he is away for six months. Not one to take advantage of her new "digs", she spends her first night there reading, ...

Actors : Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Giuseppe Patroni Griffi,

Mentally disturbed spinster Lise experiences a series of bizarre encounters in Rome as she searches for someone to murder her.

Actors : Emel Sayin, Metin Akpinar, Adile Nasit, Suzan Avci,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjita Thakur, Dinesh Thakur,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ia Ninidze, Maia Kankava, Vakhtang Kikabidze,
Directors : Giorgi Shengelaia,

Pavle, who is a poor cart-driver has two girls, Maro and Tamro. The girls have a dream to take classes at a ballet school, but Pavle cannot afford such a luxury. Vardo, a laundress, decides to help the little girls.

Actors : Tani Guthrie, Jennifer Billingsley, John Considine, Judith McConnell,
Directors : Terry Becker,

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Terumi Azuma, Naomi Tani,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

A woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her.

Actors : Hülya Koçyigit, Hakan Balamir, Erol Tas, Erol Günaydin,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

1975 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor Award.

Actors : Stella Carnacina, Ivan Rassimov, Lucretia Love, Chris Avram,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

The story in this horror movie revolves around a strange religious icon and the demonic sexual influence it exerts on a young art student. After a gory dream sequence in which the woman ...

Actors : Jenny Tamburi, Franco Ressel, Françoise Prévost, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can ...