Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Max Fairchild,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to ...

Actors : Ni Tien, Norman Fell, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson,
Directors : Charles Bail,

When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Víctor Alcázar, Judy Geeson, Aurora Bautista, Esperanza Roy,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.

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 : Ivan Rassimov, Laura Gemser, Don Powell, Karin Schubert,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Zdena Studenková, Václav Voska, 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 : Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Stany, Venantino Venantini, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took ...

Actors : Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Doris Thomas, Karin Field,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A group of nun's become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Fei Ai, Ping Chen, Shen Chan,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Two clans compete for dominance over the martial arts world in this classic of violent swordplay and political intrigue. A complex tale of deception and double crosses. Killer Clans leaves ...

Actors : Marjoe Gortner, Merrie Lynn Ross, Jesse Vint, Lynda Carter,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.

Actors : Betty Vergès, Claus Richt, Wolf Goldan, Olivia Pascal,
Directors : Sigi Rothemund,

In this sex comedy, a good-looking German girl goes on vacation in Greece, and a large number of people try to get her to go to bed with them. With a light, teasing manner, she turns all of...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Humbert Balsan, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother's death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.

Actors : Eduard Cupák, Iva Janzurová, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ...

Actors : Yoshiaki Makita, Kaizo Kamoda, Naho Kimura, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

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 : Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce,
Directors : Peter Frazer-Jones,

Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel - whatever the cost. However, a shady businessman mistakes George for a hit man.

Actors : Jonas Bergström, Catriona MacColl, Christine Böhm, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Robert Rivard, Reynald Bouchard,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks...