Best Female Lead movies of 1971

Actors : Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Catherine Jourdan,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

Actors : Norman Parker, Jerry Allgor, Shelby Leverington, Aaron Phillips,
Directors : Ken Friedman,

A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.

Actors : Michael Sugich, Dan Spelling, Jeanne Crain, Alex Nicol,
Directors : Lee Madden,

A woman is persecuted by Jesus freaks after they've crucified her preacher husband.

Actors : Patty Shepard, Dean Selmier, Fernando Cebrián, Carmen Sevilla,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Marta spends a few days alone while her husband is on a business trip. But she starts to get scared when she hears some mysterious steps every night on the top floor. Her neighbor will try ...

Actors : Anne Wiazemsky, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin, Cristiana Tullio-Altan,

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Anna Kyriakou, Betty Livanou, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Rena, a mature but in good condition well-off widow and a factory owner, decides to find love which she has been deprived after the loss of her husband.. Therefore, she decides to get married to a much younger man.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Karen Blanguernon, Barbara Parkins,
Directors : René Clément,

Jill is surprised and angry when her computer-genius boyfriend decides to quit his job in a big company for unclear reasons. But when her children disapear mysteriously and seem to have ...

Actors : Binota Roy, Madhabi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Ranjit Mallick,
Directors : Mrinal Sen,

An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Nero, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

Medieval drama in which Redgrave plays an allegedly insane woman who is allowed to finally leave the madhouse to see if she is capable of functioning normally. Her parents pay no attention ...

Actors : John McEnery, Valentina Cortese, Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Directors : Gérard Brach,

Trotz ihrer sozialen Differenzen sind der arme David und der reiche Olivier die besten Freunde. David hat in Oliviers Pariser Appartement die junge Eleanore untergebracht. Als Olivier sie ...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Aruna Irani, Mehmood Jr., Jeetendra,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Sunita is a young woman who ends up married to the wrong man, Rajan. Thinking that he has conspired with his girlfriend, Monica to murder her, she runs away to find an old friend of her ...

Actors : Pia Degermark, Yvor Murillo, Ingrid van Bergen, Thomas Hunter,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.

Actors : Kostas Karras, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Galanos, Spyros Kalogirou,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Actors : Beeson Carroll, Gigi Proietti, Sophia Loren, William Devane,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers' protest, but their love can't be, because he is married and Italy...

Actors : Hronis Exarhakos, Vagelis Seilinos, Giorgos Panjas, Zoi Laskari,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Actors : Rosamund Greenwood, Roy Evans, David Pugh,
Directors : Tony Scott,

The film concerns an elderly couple played by Rosamund Greenwood and Roy Evans, who we later discover to be brother and sister, who accidentally run over and kill a young cyclist played by ...

Actors : Eleni Erimou, Petros Fyssoun, Alkis Yannakas, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Manto Mavrogenous, several years after the revolution and active action, remembers her life. Despite the objections of her mother, gave her dowry to financially support the revolution. ...

Actors : Lars Kümler, Mette Thielke, Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Bente Messmann,
Directors : Ib Mossin,

Actors : Danièle Croisy, Françoise Guégan, Patrick Verde, Caroline Cartier,
Directors : Jacques Rozier,

A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing ...

Actors : Antonio Falsi, Oliver Tobias, Charlotte Rampling, Fabio Testi,
Directors : Giuseppe Patroni Griffi,

Annabella marries Soranzo, when she is pregnant by her brother Giovanni. Destiny, and jealousies will expose her past, and Soranzo broods revenge. But he is not alone in that - and death will unite all.