Best Female Lead movies of 1966

Actors : Ronald Allen, Norman Wooland, Bryant Haliday, Mary Peach,

A scientist experimenting with matter transmission from place to place by means of a laser beam suddenly decides to use himself as a test specimen. But the process goes awry, and one side ...

Actors : Howard Vernon, Mabel Karr, Estella Blain, Fernando Montes,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.

Actors : Miharu Shima, Hatsuo Yamaya,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.

Actors : Kristina Jämtmark, Kajsa Dandenell, Maria Johansson, Stephen Lindholm,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Tjorven and the other children at Saltkråkan have received a play day in a gift. Uncel Melker will find himself ending up in the lake several times. The kids also have found an old ship ...

Actors : Iya Savvina, Gennady Yegorychev, Aleksandr Surin, Lyubov Sokolova,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

About gentle, tender and proud love of Asya, a lame woman, and the driver Stepan who is a good-for-nothing person.

Actors : Tina Aumont, Peter McEnery, Michel Piccoli, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the ...

Actors : Richard Crenna, Edie Adams, Louis Jourdan, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret), a fashion buyer in Paris on her first buying spree where she meets famous fashion designer Mark Fontaine (Louis Jourdan) and he immediately gives her the big ...

Actors : Anthony Eisley, Billy Gray, Bobby Van, Mamie Van Doren,

Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers unusual tree specimens. When specimens are shipped out for further study, the trees are accidentally introduced to a ...

Actors : Julián Mateos, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

Restless married couple Maria and Paul take a road trip through Spain with their friend Claire. While Paul and Claire carry on a clandestine affair, Maria becomes obsessed with a recent ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Barbara Steele, Claudio Gora, Mario Brega,
Directors : Camillo Mastrocinque,

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the ...

Actors : Tamotsu Hayakawa, Keiko Natsu, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Actors : Yvonne Romain, Ann-Margret, Robert Coote, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : George Sidney,

An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

Actors : Linda Gale, Robin Nolan, Diane Conti, Eileen Dietz,
Directors : Sande N. Johnsen,

A no-good Manhattan girl moves in on a Brooklyn gang. Using her obvious charms she gets the leader killed in a fight over her and then takes up with the victor and new head man. Then she ...

Actors : Françoise Vatel, Claude Melki, Colette Descombes, Michel Gonzalès,
Directors : Luc Moullet,

A twenty minute documentary about the two smallest French villages. Then, Paris, 1960s. Two girls named Brigitte from the two villages share an apartment and study at the Sorbonne.

Actors : Billy M. Greene, Dorothy Keller, Fabian Dean, Jayne Mansfield,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

The fall of a blonde, Mansfield, from innocence to prostitution. Mansfield died before the movie was completed.

Actors : Manos Katrakis, Alekos Alexandrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Zoi Laskari,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

When a beautiful loving daughter crashes her car on the day of her mother's wedding, a tragic tale of love, deception and betrayal will unfold behind the closed doors of a wealthy family.

Actors : Alekos Tzanetakos, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Rena Vlahopoulou, Stavros Xenidis,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Rena Varlamos, a brilliant and capacious woman, takes up the election campaign of her fiance, Pericles Arapis, who wants to be a MP. She tries to land him in reality, but he does not. ...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Gastone Moschin, Enrico Maria Salerno,

Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving ...

Actors : David Blair, Desmond Doyle, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn,
Directors : Paul Czinner,

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

Actors : Irina Petrescu, Graziela Albini, Dan Nutu, Eugenia Popovici,
Directors : Lucian Pintilie,