Best Female Lead movies of 1977

Actors : Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Louise Kirtland, Teresa Wright,
Directors : James Ivory,

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.

Actors : Catharine Burgess, Erwin Fuller, Jay B. Larson, Vaughn Armstrong,
Directors : Al Adamson,

In the year 2047, sex is forbidden and Big Brother uses robots to keep on eye on everyone. One young girl tries to outwit the government so she can be with the man she loves.

Actors : Gerard Cox, Pleuni Touw, Marina de Graaf, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

Actors : Siu-Lung Leung, Wai-Man Chan, Shan Kwan, Angela Mao,
Directors : Chang-hwa Jeong,

Angry and aggressive orphan Lotus Lin gets raised as a Buddhist in a Shaolin temple after her mother dies in the wake of giving birth to her in prison. Consumed with rage, Lin gets expelled...

Actors : Kei Tomiyama, Shûsei Nakamura, Yôko Asagami, Gorô Naya,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Gamilons are a race of evil aliens that are trying to destroy the planet Earth. However, a group of civilians look to the battleship Yamato for its space travel and go on a mission to bring...

Actors : Claudine Gabay, Noëlle Chatelet, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu), who has been using her for some time to keep his failing building business afloat.

Actors : Lydia Wagner, David J. Partington, Therese Pare, Roscoe Born,
Directors : John Hayes,

Vicki is seventeen and her older friends call her Jailbait. Her boyfriend Robert is frustrated because Vicki doesn't want to do the wild thing, but he's willing to wait. After a party gets ...

Actors : Rick Goodwin, Ted Brady, Barbara Frankel, Serafina Bathrick,
Directors : James Benning,

One of the most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences, each offering some sort of image/sound ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Adjani, Françoise Arnoul, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Violette and François are a couple with a child.As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs,François starts to steal.

Actors : Clive Merrison, Merdelle Jordine, Dinah Stabb, Riannon Tise,

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

Actors : Vittorio Caprioli, Anneka Di Lorenzo, Lori Wagner, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Ewa Zlotowska, Danuta Mancewicz, Wieslaw Michnikowski, Jan Kociniak,

Bolek and Lolek race around the world facing danger to win a wager with Lord Fogg.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Glenda Jackson, Sandy Dennis, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Michael Lindsay-Hogg,

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.

Actors : Velko Kynev, Grigor Vachkov, Pavel Popandov, Mariana Dimitrova,
Directors : Eduard Sachariev,

There were times when stealing girls in these lands has been a worthy vocation, was a habit and a sort of custom in Bulgaria. Only the strongest and most experienced men took the profession...

Actors : Mimmo Crao, Tony Kendall, Jim Sullivan, Antonella Interlenghi,
Directors : Gianfranco Parolini,

Actors : Rodolfo Dal Pra, Bruce Robinson, Corinne Cléry, Katja Rupé,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in ...

Actors : Haydée Balza, Hilda Vera, Orlando Urdaneta, Miguel Ángel Landa,
Directors : Román Chalbaud,

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon...

Actors : Paola Senatore, Tino Schirinzi, Leonora Fani, Sven Valsecchi,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teen-agers covertly discover new prohibited games

Actors : Meridith Baer, Wil Albert, Royce D. Applegate, Paul Ainsley,
Directors : Bradley R. Swirnoff,

Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been ...

Actors : Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ...