Best Female Lead movies of 1961

Actors : Seok-hun Kim, Jeong-suk Moon, Seung-ho Kim,
Directors : Won-jik Lim,

A woman is deserted by her boyfriend when he learns her father is a rickshaw driver. Having nowhere to go, she turns to prostitution. Luckily, her boyfriend soon feels guilty about the way ...

Actors : Faina Ranevskaya, Lyudmila Markeliya, Ariadna Shengelaia, Svetlana Kharitonova,
Directors : Nadezhda Kosheverova,

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her...

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Virna Lisi, Hélène Chanel, Little Tony,
Directors : Mario Mattoli,

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized ...

Actors : Kosta Tsonev, Anani Yavashev, Vasiliy Merkurev, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Vladimir Yanchev,

Ani, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend Boyan, a worker at a large construction site. The letter contains a single word "yes". Boyan ...

Actors : Paraluman, Lolita Rodriguez, Tito Galla, Luis Gonzales,
Directors : Conrado Conde,

Like a thunder from the sky this powerful motion picture will strike at your very souls.

Actors : Aroldo Tieri, Lauretta Masiero, Raimondo Vianello, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mario Amendola,

Il conte Carlo Alberto Raffo di Pontello possiede solo debiti. Manlio fa l'artista di varietà con poco successo ed è senza una lira. Ambedue vanno al ballo delle debuttanti per cercare una ...

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Jean Servais, Peter van Eyck, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

When an enigmatic woman hires a group of criminals to rob a US Army payroll armored truck bound for Marseilles things go wrong.

Actors : Rosita Quintana, Evangelina Elizondo, María Victoria, Julio Aldama,
Directors : Roberto Rodríguez,

Three rowdy young women shall marry by a certain date, or else they will not receive the wealth their late father left them in testament.

Actors : Carlo Delle Piane, Chelo Alonso, Hélène Chanel, Walter Chiari,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

The Grand Hotel Cortez is an old castle and the tale says that it is haunted. "Ghost" is the nickname of the famous jewels thief whom Jean-Marie Semolin wants to catch. Jean-Marie comes ...

Actors : Hui Shi, Fong Pau, Ting Fang, Juanjuan Chen,
Directors : Sun-Fung Lee,

Set in Ming Dynasty, famous official Hai Rui corrects an unjust case.

Actors : Jeanette Lin Tsui, Kelly Lai Chen, Yin Wang, Lai Wang,
Directors : Robert Chung,

A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of mischievous working-class 3rd graders that ...

Actors : Yuriy Gulyayev, Eduard Koshman, Yevgenia Miroshnichenko, Olga Reus-Petrenko,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

Actors : Giorgos Kabanellis, Marina Brousali, Sonia Zoidou, Anna Daskalea,
Directors : Apollon Gavriilidis,

Two poor employees are playing the rich guys in order to find a rich girl to marry.

Actors : Ewa Krzyzewska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Beata Tyszkiewicz,
Directors : Tadeusz Konwicki,

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a ...

Actors : Vesna Bojanic, Nada Kasapic, Josip Zappalorto, Tatjana Beljakova,
Directors : Fadil Hadzic,

In order to gather information about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement is sending one girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the...

Actors : Milena Dravic, Sonja Hlebs, Olga Nadj, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic,

Whilst buying train tickets there was a mix up and Visnja has to travel to the seaside before her husband. After arrival many men start romanticizing her. In the same time, her husband is ...

Actors : Paul Löwinger, Peter Kraus, Hans von Borsody, Karin Dor,
Directors : Franz Antel,

Eva is small dancing girl at a revue-show . When she finds out the fact that she inherited the palace hotel in St. Wolfgang at the Wolfgang lake she resigns. Together with her friend Maxie ...

Actors : Herval Rossano, Eliana, Heloísa Helena, Geraldo Maia,
Directors : Watson Macedo,

Terezinha, a dancer in the carnival parade, is poor and lives in a shack in a shantytown. But she dreams of getting rich and becoming a socialite. When her aunt gets ill, she takes her ...

Actors : Walter Barnes, Jerome Courtland, Agostino Salvietti, Lisa Gastoni,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time. The King's Guard captures her, and she finds herself in the same ...

Actors : Nestor de Villa, Vilma Valera, Nida Blanca,
Directors : Tony Santos,

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