Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : Joe Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Talia Shire, Kay Medford,
Directors : Gordon Willis,

Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns ...

Actors : Angela Pleasence, Nancy Nevinson, Lorna Heilbron, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Actors : Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang, Birte Tove, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

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 : Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Sumita Sanyal,
Directors : Gulzar,

Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

Actors : Lisa Moore, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Bob Kelljan,

Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the ...

Actors : George 'Buck' Flower, Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Mark Edward Hall,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

In this family classic, two orphans cross the Rocky Mountains on a quest to claim their inheritance, a 400-acre Oregon ranch. On their journey, the pair forms an uncertain alliance with a ...

Actors : Clyde Ventura, Douglas Dirkson, Sam Gilman, Claudia Jennings,

Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?

Actors : Jirí Procházka, Dana Vávrová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Sovák,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

Trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

The family who went "back to nature" by homesteading in the Colorado Rockies is threatened by possible federal opposition to their mining claims on the land they moved to.

Actors : Clare Sutcliffe, Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward,
Directors : David Greene,

A 14-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality, discovers that her adored older brother may be guilty of a series of bizarre sex crimes.

Actors : Senta Berger, Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman,

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a ...

Actors : Alberto Dalbés, Howard Vernon, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A young woman visits her gravely ill grandmother at the family estate. On her death bed, the old woman reveals to her granddaughter the family curse: they're all vampires. The young woman ...

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 : Arthur Space, Mary Jackson, John Neilson, Linda Gillen,
Directors : Bud Townsend,

College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know ...

Actors : Eric Edwards, Jennifer Welles, Mary Mendum, Chris Jordan,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.

Actors : Robin John, Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O'Shaughnessy,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

In prehistoric times two brothers (a more or less good one and a more or less bad one) fight each other for the leadership of their tribe.