Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : 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 : 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 : Miki Sugimoto, Masami Sôda, Chiyoko Kazama, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Atsushi Mihori,

After her father is exploited and killed by a yakuza gang, a tough woman, fresh out of prison, exacts her revenge over said gang with the help of three girls she met in prison.

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 : 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 : 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 : Leonora Fani, Jeff Blynn, Gianni Dei, Michele Renzullo,
Directors : Mario Landi,

In Venice a detective is on the trail of a killer who commits a double murder (a married couple) then more grisly killings occur. Sex, drugs, gore and perversions are ingredients of this sadistic and sleazy giallo.

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 : 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 : Chieko Baishô, Kaori Momoi, Tetsuya Takeda, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

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 : Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Giuseppe Pambieri, Gloria Guida, Gianfranco D'Angelo, 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 : Louis Quinn, Tony Young, Joyce Jillson, Thomas Reardon,
Directors : Ed Forsyth,

Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with ...

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 : Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Anisimova-Wulf, Yekaterina Mazurova, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ...