Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Martin Balsam, Joanne Woodward, Tresa Hughes, Sylvia Sidney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Arve Opsahl, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Thorleif Reiss,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering...

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 : 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 : Herbert Kerr, Casey Donovan, Cheri Caffaro, Duane Tucker,
Directors : Don Schain,

A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.

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 : 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 : Kadir Inanir, Aziz Basmaci, Ali Sen, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

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 : 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 : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Victor Izay, Leslie McRay, Tom Pace, Lila Zaborin,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

Lorraine and Mark enter the world of witchcraft where Mara foretells the future and helps them remember their past lives. When a series of mysterious murders begin to occur, they turn to Dr. Helsford for advice.

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 : Betty Pei Ti, Lin Tung, Lily Ho, Hua Yueh,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

The Four Seasons Brothel is run by a ruthless madam, Lady Chun Yi. Countless young girls have been kidnapped or bought and then sold into a life of servitude, prostitution, and torture at ...

Actors : Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Nino Manfredi, 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 : 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 ...