Best Female Lead movies of 1979

Actors : Isabela Corona, María Rebeca, Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.

Actors : Inger Johanne Byhring, Anne-Cath Vestly, Jon Eikemo, Eli Skolmen Ryg,
Directors : Espen Thorstenson,

The eight kids Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten has moved with their parents and grandmother from the tiny apartment in the city to a cozy, red house in the forest. ...

Actors : Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer, Cécile Le Bailly,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier ...

Actors : Félix Rotaeta, José Lage, Carmen Maura, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Fernando Colomo,

Rosa, separated and with two children, has to endure the jealousy of her ex-husband, and lives anguished because he continues trying to control her life. Through a friend she knows the ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, David Steinberg, Marilyn Sokol, Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Directors : David Helpern,

A romantic comedy revolving around the on-again, off-again relationship of a young New York couple.

Actors : Maurizio Interlandi, Taida Urruzola, Juan Carlos Naya, Olga Karlatos,
Directors : Marcello Aliprandi,

A group of teenagers are on holiday in the Aeolian islands.

Actors : Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini, Guido Lombardi, Olimpia Carlisi,

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò...

Actors : Jocelyn Fournier, Ihor Procak, Nate MacIntosh, Dorothy Stratten,
Directors : Lloyd A. Simandl,

A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline."

Actors : Magdana Mchelidze, Nana Mchedlidze, Nana Kvateladze, Marine Giorgadze,
Directors : Nana Mchedlidze,

Grown up granddaughter recalls summer days spent in the village together with her grandmother Mariam and other children. Her memories are bitter sweet mix of childhood nostalgia and real life anecdotes.

Actors : Ken Marshall, Brooke Shields, John Crawford, Charles Durning,
Directors : Rudy Durand,

Tilt is the story of a young girl, who is a pinball machine wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt is contemplating running away from home, and skipping school one day ...

Actors : Jutta Lampe, Konstantin Wecker, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Monica Vitti, Laura Antonelli,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

An Italian comedy about a heist involving a princess's necklace, and a cast of character's who are not what they seem. They do about anything they can to get the necklace from each other.

Actors : Renato Pozzetto, Max von Sydow, Shelley Winters, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".

Actors : Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Paul Savoie, Monique Miller, Julie Vincent, Germain Houde,
Directors : Anne Claire Poirier,

A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the...

Actors : Erzsi Pásztor, Vera Pap, Éva Szabó, Tamás Dunai,
Directors : Pál Gábor,

Actors : Catherine Rétoré, Franziskus Abgottspon, Clémentine Amouroux, Gerald Battiaz,
Directors : Alain Tanner,

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to ...

Actors : Brigitte Lahaie, Danielle Troger, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

In a small Swiss girls' boarding school, which is also attended by 6 blond free-spirited Swedish girls, Greta, Inga, Kerstin, Lil, Astrid and Selma, Miss Klein leads a strict regiment. ...

Actors : Galina Polskikh, Mher Mkrtchyan, Anna Varpakhovskaya, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Alla Surikova,

A comedy about a civil registry official whose job is to register newlyweds and who just discovered that her husband has been cheating on her for 3 months, her daughter met a guy she ...

Actors : Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali, Gloria Guida, Lorraine De Selle,
Directors : Mariano Laurenti,

There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend ...