Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Marie-José Nat, Danièle Barraud, Dominique Paturel, Jean-Pierre Cassel,

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ...

Actors : Folco Lulli, Margarita Lozano, Sidonia Manolache, Paul Misai,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband

Actors : Frank Bolger, Jackie Moran, Adele Rein, Babette Bardot,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to...

Actors : Bernard Blier, André Pousse, Marlène Jobert, Françoise Rosay,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Claire Ufland, Kim Novak, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Terence Young,

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Actors : Vivian Weiss, Li Paelz, Rolf Eden, Ingrid Steeger,

A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe ...

Actors : Adrienne Posta, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Movie version of the BBC TV play that first addresses some of the major social issues of the day. A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed ...

Actors : Alexander Knox, Kenneth More, Suzy Kendall, Nigel Green,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

During the First World War, a female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans and steal the new French mustard gas formula.

Actors : Giorgos Mihalakopoulos, Jenny Karezi, Faidon Georgitsis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Vasoula stays under the same roof and works for an old and rich lady as a secretary and companion. One day the old lady leaves for a trip and a girlfiend of Vasoula brings her boyfriend at home... Then the trouble begins..

Actors : Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, Anne Linden, Veronica Radburn,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritence they are all entitled to.

Actors : Dina de Marco, Isabela Corona, Armando Calvo, Rosita Arenas,
Directors : Chano Urueta,

A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.

Actors : Angelos Antonopoulos, Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Pantelis Zervos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Mirto, a progressive teacher, is assigned to a backward village, where her ideas find opposition from the parents. She falls in love with Stephanos, the mayor's son, whom she marries. As ...

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Fritz Weaver, Katherine Crawford, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Guy Green,

The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.

Actors : Cher, Steve Whittaker, Tom Nolan, Barbara London,
Directors : Alessio de Paola,

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Actors : Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa, Takahiro Tamura, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Actors : Sandra Dee, Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet, Andy Williams,
Directors : Jack Smight,

An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the ...

Actors : Barry Morse, Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ...

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Hsin Yen Chao, Lieh Lo, Yu Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The indomitable martial arts team of director Chang Cheh and stunt choreographer Liu Chia-liang continues the compelling saga of Golden Swallow from King Hu's Come Drink with Me in this ...

Actors : Yvonne Romain, Robert Coote, Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : George Sidney,

An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire, James Olson,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Stefanie Powers stars as an American girl who goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer.