Best Female Lead movies of 1972

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Trish Van Devere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that 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 : Sayuri Ichijo, Hiroko Isayama, Gô Awazu, Kazuko Shirakawa,
Directors : Tatsumi Kumashiro,

The story is about a stripper's relationships with two men: her boyfriend and a club owner.

Actors : Norma Bengell, Maurice Garrel, Françoise Brion, Jacques Charrier,
Directors : Pierre Kast,

Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

Actors : Maurizio Degli Esposti, Lucia Bosé, Tina Aumont, Rosaria,
Directors : Giulio Questi,

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a ...

Actors : Clint Kimbrough, Patty Byrne, Mittie Lawrence, Alana Stewart,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their ...

Actors : Seif Abol Naga, Dawlad Abiad, Ahmed Mazhar, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new ...

Actors : Alena Penz, Christiane Maybach, Eva Garden, Sybil Danning,

When their straight-laced sister loses her job and returns home, Maria and Christel's sex lives grinds to a halt. They conspire, with the aid of a "potency pill," to change her views about sex. But little goes as planned.

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

Actors : Timothy Brown, Pamela Collins, Phyllis Davis, Ellaraino,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who ...

Actors : Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine ...

Actors : Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe, Bonnie Bedelia, Sebastian,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.

Actors : Jane Tsentas, Rick Cassidy, Cleo O'Hara, Sandra Henderson,
Directors : Walt Davis,

A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Jan Englert, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Lucja Kowolik,
Directors : Kazimierz Kutz,

Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.

Actors : Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick, Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer,
Directors : John Farris,

The matriarch of a family living in an old Southern mansion finds that a killer is loose in the house, searching for a $50,000 fortune rumored to be hidden there, and murdering anyone getting in the way.

Actors : Eslinda Núñez, Alejandro Lugo, Lyudmila Saveleva, Oleg Vidov,
Directors : Vladimir Vaynshtok,

In the middle of the 19th century, after bloody war with Mexico, Americans have begun conquest of the huge territory of Texas. At the new owner of a hacienda of Kasa-del-Korvo of business ...

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 : Meral Taygun, Yesim Tan, Sadri Alisik, Zeynep Degirmencioglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

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 ...