Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Daniel Dietrich, Lenny Baker, Janine Carazo, Jerome Dempsey,
Directors : Christopher Speeth,

The Norris family get jobs working at a seedy old carnival as a cover for searching for their missing son who disappeared after visiting said carnival. Eccentric manager Mr. Blood turns out...

Actors : Tim Choate, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Anne Baxter,
Directors : James Ivory,

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

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 : Marcos Taquechel, Rogério Fróes, Irene Ravache, Lilian Lemmertz,
Directors : Eduardo Escorel,

A German governess is hired to give German and piano lessons to the teenager son of a rich traditional family, in the 20s. But soon they get involved, and she teaches him love lessons instead.

Actors : Moeko Ezawa, Meika Seri, Junko Miyashita, Genshû Hanayagi,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

A rough, uncompromising film about a washed-out prostitute going through the hardships of life on the margins of society.

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 : Cemil Sahbaz, Hülya Koçyigit, Gülsah Soydan, Nil Burak,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Roger Carel, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Senne Rouffaer, Roger Van Hool, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : André Delvaux,

The story of a woman's love for two young men. Antwerp, 1940. Lieve marries Adriaan, a Flemish idealist who is drawn towards Germany by the occupation to the Eastern Front. She shelters the...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra, Laxmi Chhaya,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Ajit saves the village from the dakus (bandits); whilst having romance with Anju.

Actors : James Keach, Robert Walker Jr., Dean Jagger, Doria Cook-Nelson,

Passing through a small town, a stranger discovers that a crazed scientist is creating an army of zombies.

Actors : Aleksey Bakhar, Leonid Nevedomsky, O. Antipyuk, Tatyana Doronina,
Directors : Oleg Bondarev,

Based on a story by Mariya Khalfina. Shura Olevantseva leads a happy life with her children and her loving husband Pavel. One day she hears the news that the woman, who once loved her ...

Actors : Erkki Pajala, Heikki Hämäläinen, Matti Kassila, Eeva-Maija Haukinen,
Directors : Risto Jarva,

A psyhiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

Actors : Birgit Doll, Hanno Pöschl, Helmut Qualtinger, Jane Tilden,
Directors : Maximilian Schell,

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.

Actors : Yi Chang, Kyung-Ah Oh, Ying Bai, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Tien arrives in town looking to exact revenge on Ling for abandoning her pregnant sister and thus driving said sister to commit suicide. Although Tien agrees to help Ling take down the ...

Actors : Georgiana Tarjan, Irén Psota, Carla Romanelli, Margit Makay,
Directors : Károly Makk,

Actors : Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact ...

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 : Ivan Rassimov, Luigi Pistilli, Pilar Velázquez, Ida Galli,
Directors : Romano Scavolini,

As a Child Mariale witnesses her father kill her mother. Years later, she spends her life with little contact from the outside world living in a gloomy castle. One day, however Mariale ...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Donald Pilon, Chuck Shamata, George Touliatos,
Directors : Murray Markowitz,

A woman is murdered and her millionaire husband is accused. But is he guilty?