Best Female Lead movies of 1976

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Ellen Barber, Edward Bell, Danielle Brisebois,
Directors : Robert Allen Schnitzer,

This Thriller/horror movie tells the tale of a young girl who is terrified that her insane mother will take her away from her beloved foster mother. One day, the crazed real mother attempts...

Actors : Ernesto Macias, Herman Wallner, Patricia Landon, Suzanna Ling,
Directors : Chris Munger,

A disturbed teenage girl unleashes her pet tarantula against her "enemies."

Actors : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Nagy, Sándor Horváth, Marianna Moór,

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adopting parents.

Actors : Miroslava Safránková, Petr Svojtka, Libuse Safránková, Radovan Lukavský,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems ...

Actors : Orçun Sonat, Reha Yurdakul, Sevda Ferdag, Fatma Girik,
Directors : Metin Erksan,

Actors : Ekaterina Volkova, Inna Churikova, Leonid Bronevoy, Nikolay Gubenko,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

When Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies.

Actors : Martin Hirthe, Hildegard Knef, Sylvia Manas, Carl Raddatz,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Maria Aliferi, Jessica Dublin, Peter Winter,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

Two crooks get the job to protect a mysterious young girl and her mother from a bunch of gangsters.

Actors : Arthur Kennedy, Paolo Giusti, Laura Gemser, Nicola Paguone,

A shipwrecked sailor falls in love with a beautiful island woman.

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 : François Périer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Jean-Louis Bertuccelli,

Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Cesare Danova, William Smith, Connie Stevens,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Seattle undercover narc Jackie Parker (Stevens) is out to bust the drug smuggling ring commanded by Philip Bianco (Danova).

Actors : Stefano Patrizi, Benjamin Lev, Tomas Milian, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Romolo Guerrieri,

In this riveting Italian exploitation thriller, three young men embark upon a terrifying series of bloody crimes, engaging in robbery, gunplay, and murder. As the entire police force ...

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Emiliano Redondo, Teresa Gimpera, Nadiuska,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search ...

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 : Pilar Pellicer, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Salvador Sánchez, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

Based in the true case of the sisters who ran brothels in which kidnapping, killings and clandestine burial were common.

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

Actors : Jeanne Goupil, Andréa Ferréol, Bernard Fresson, André Dussollier,
Directors : Joël Séria,

Marie is a 17-year old who was orphaned as a young girl. as a result, she has a tad of arrested development that makes her act much younger than her age. One day she looks in a store window...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Jirô Yabuki, Etsuko Shiomi, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yu Kohira,

Karate master Kazuma gets severely beaten and crippled by nefarious rival Nikaido. Kazuma trains his loyal daughter Yumi in the martial arts so she can exact a harsh revenge on Nikaido and his band of evil thugs.

Actors : Evelyne Scott, Olivier Mathot, José Nieto, Silvia Solar,
Directors : Jordi Gigó,

Former Countess Clair and Professor Gruber conduct occult research in castle basement of Count Victor, re-animating people to kill for them.