Best Female Lead movies of 1978

Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Velvet's orphaned niece, Sarah, follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.

Actors : Louis Nye, Ronny Cox, Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray,

Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Now most of the townspeople, particularly on the PTA board, think that she is a little too liberal and liberated for ...

Actors : George Kennedy, Max von Sydow, John Cassavetes, Sophia Loren,
Directors : John Hough,

In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt but the army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hit-man to kill the general.

Actors : Edward Fox, Michael Callan, Wendy Hiller, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

Actors : Joni Flynn, Jody Hanson, Glory Annen, Chris Milne,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she receives an invitation to her sister in ...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov, Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy,
Directors : Emil Loteanu,

You can't make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Born in a poor family, she has to marry a rich man to escape poverty. Three men fight for her heart, the...

Actors : Howard Ross, Ligia Branice, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these ...

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Gloria Guida, Ray Lovelock, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Václav Voska, Zdena Studenková, 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 : Daniel Grimm, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Jean Rougeul,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ...

Actors : Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Nina Foch, Amy Johnston,
Directors : Brice Mack,

Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only ...

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Frank Zuniga,

The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands ...

Actors : Sonia Braga, Paulo César Peréio, Nuno Leal Maia, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Neville de Almeida,

Carlos and Solange, childhood sweethearts, marry after a chaste courtship. On their wedding night, Solange refuses to make love to him. First he pleads, then in anger he rapes her. She says...

Actors : Gerry Sundquist, Gabriele Blum, Stefano D'Amato, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : André Farwagi,

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Actors : Trevor Howard, Glenda Jackson, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Marina Dyuzheva, Rolan Bykov, Galina Polskikh, Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Directors : Aleksey Korenev,

Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even a grandmother.

Actors : Susan Hemingway, Howard Vernon, Karine Gambier, Aida Gouveia,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison.

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Dakar, Maurice Poli, Melissa Chimenti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals' female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.

Actors : Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Michel Caron,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.