Best Female Lead movies of 1973

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 : 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 : 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 : Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, George Rose, Johnny Doran,
Directors : Fielder Cook,

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Actors : Anke Syring, Ulrike Butz, Nico Wolferstetter, Nadia Henkowa,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

A lesbian vampire's soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants.

Actors : Karin Heske, Elisabeth Felchner, Carl Möhner, Renate Kasché,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other,...

Actors : Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Doris Thomas, Karin Field,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A group of nun's become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

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 : György Cserhalmi, Anikó Nagy, Erzsi Pártos, Antal Farkas,
Directors : Marcell Jankovics,

A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young farmer through love, magic and death.

Actors : Ana Farra, Ewa Aulin, Lucia Bosé, Espartaco Santoni,
Directors : Jorge Grau,

The ageing Countess discovers that the blood of a maid can temporarily restore her youth and great beauty. She falls in love with a dashing young soldier but is compelled to kill again and ...

Actors : Anouska Hempel, Percy Herbert, Thomas Baptiste, David Warbeck,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Story of a slave revolt on a 19th-century Caribbean island.

Actors : Kamran Usluer, Hülya Koçyigit, Ahmet Mekin, Erol Günaydin,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

A story of a family of six who are coming from Urfa tries to survive economically in Istanbul.

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 : Edward Fox, Delphine Seyrig, Trevor Howard, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and...

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Shani Wallis, Stella Stevens,
Directors : Georg Fenady,

Upon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.

Actors : Birgit Westhausen, Bettina Westhausen, Horst Janson, Heidi Brühl,
Directors : Wolfgang Schleif,

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, James Tien, Wei Lo, Wei Ou,
Directors : Wei Lo,

Actors : Ramón Pons, Jean Sorel, Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.

Actors : Jenny Tamburi, Anita Strindberg, Cristina Gaioni, Eva Czemerys,
Directors : Rino Di Silvestro,

A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.

Actors : Tatyana Pelttser, Nikolay Volkov, Larisa Zhvaniya, Marina Maltseva,
Directors : Anatoliy Granik,

A young beautiful orphan Girl lives with her uncaring Stepmother, who treats her like a servant, and her spoiled foolish Stepsister. The two of them send her to gather firewood on New ...