Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : Saira Banu, Sulakshana Pandit, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Popular Indian leading man Amitabh Bachchan stars in HERA PHERI, a campy Bollywood musical melodrama about faded friendships and family secrets. Best friends Vijay (Bachchan) and Ajay (...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Larisa Kuznetsova,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.

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 : Laszlone Horvath, László Horváth, Gábor Kun, Gábor Ifj. Kun,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

The breakdown of the relationship of a couple by living in a flat of the husband's parents.

Actors : Lynn Monteil, Jesús Franco, Catherine Lafferière, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A madman conducts a private inquisition to exorcise demons by torturing women to death.

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ...

Actors : Flore Fitzgerald, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

Actors : Carter Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Han Jae Ji, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair...

Actors : Giuseppe Pambieri, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Gloria Guida, Gisella Sofio,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes ...

Actors : Anton Diffring, Serge Merlin, Cyrielle Clair, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Alejandro Jodorowsky,

An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny.

Actors : Analía Gadé, Lisa Leonardi, Andrés Resino, Ida Galli,
Directors : Francisco Lara Polop,

A couple, lost in thick fog, take refuge in an old mansion next to a cemetery. Strange things start to happen.

Actors : Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Jean Le Poulain, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

Actors : György Cserhalmi, Mária Bajcsay, 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 : Marie Tifo, Charlotte Laurier, Louise Marleau, Germain Houde,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.

Actors : Miroslava Safránková, Petr Svojtka, Libuse Safránková, Radovan Lukavský,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems ...

Actors : Luce Garcia-Ville, Lucia Bosé, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ia Ninidze, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Maia Kankava,
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 : José Sacristán, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. ...

Actors : Gene Kelly, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Binnie Barnes,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

Forty year old Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley owns her own Manhattan based real estate agency specializing in upscale Manhattan apartments. She lives with her seventeen year old ...