Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : James Mason, Orazio Orlando, Jennifer O'Neill, Franco Nero,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it ...

Actors : Claude Boisson, Olivier Mathot, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,

A nightclub stripper hooks up with two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy.

Actors : Alena Penz, Christiane Maybach, Eva Garden, Sybil Danning,

When their straight-laced sister loses her job and returns home, Maria and Christel's sex lives grinds to a halt. They conspire, with the aid of a "potency pill," to change her views about sex. But little goes as planned.

Actors : Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe, Bonnie Bedelia, Sebastian,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Francis Huster, Charles Denner, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

For assistance to murder Catherine Berger (Catherine Deneuve) is sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. There she gives birth to a son, Simon (Jean-Jaques Briot). After her release Catherine ...

Actors : Fikret Hakan, Aysen Gruda, Hülya Koçyigit, Gülsah Soydan,
Directors : Orhan Elmas,

Actors : Seif Abol Naga, Dawlad Abiad, Ahmed Mazhar, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new ...

Actors : Norma Bengell, Maurice Garrel, Françoise Brion, Jacques Charrier,
Directors : Pierre Kast,

Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

Actors : Vítor Mendes, Esther Moser, Martine Stedil, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

When a woman has been found by the police she tells of being kidnapped, drugged and tortured by 'Arminda' (Lina Romay). For many years they have been trying to shut down Arminda's sex ...

Actors : Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga, Adrian Georgescu,

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

Actors : Preston Pierce, Georgina Spelvin, Susie Ewing, Rosalind Miles,
Directors : Al Adamson,

A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.

Actors : Miyoko Akaza, Ineko Arima, Ruriko Asaoka, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.

Actors : Nadia El Gendy, Amina Rizk, Imad Hamdi, Samir Sabri,
Directors : Hassan Al Imam,

Actors : Suna Selen, Süleyman Turan, Zeynep Degirmencioglu, Metin Serezli,
Directors : Tunç Basaran,

A young girl named Aysecik lives on her parents' farm, when an animated tornado carries her and her dog Banju in their house to Rüyalar Ulkesinde (Dreamland). Seven Cüceler (dwarfs) (...

Actors : Tamayo Mitsukawa, Michiyo Bandô, Etsuko Shiomi, Hisako Tanaka,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese...

Actors : Marin Moraru, Maria Ploae, Draga Olteanu Matei, Dumitru Furdui,

The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by...

Actors : Jane Tsentas, Rick Cassidy, Cleo O'Hara, Sandra Henderson,
Directors : Walt Davis,

A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.

Actors : Anton Diffring, Lukas Ammann, Erika Blanc, Percy Hoven,
Directors : Adrian Hoven,

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Asami Ogawa, Michio Hino, Tatsuya Hamaguchi,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

At 24, Asima lives with her father and works as an office girl, watching men get promoted and having their pick of the young women in the steno pool. She appears removed from it all, but ...

Actors : Timothy Brown, Pamela Collins, Phyllis Davis, Ellaraino,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who ...