Best Female Lead movies of 1978

Actors : Richard Allan, Patrizia Gori, Dominique Aveline, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Patrice Rhomm,

Vicious warden Helga runs the castle penitentiary Stilberg for female political prisoners with an iron fist. Stubborn and recalcitrant new inmate Elisabeth Vogel, who's the daughter of a ...

Actors : Sophie Barjac, Daniel Ceccaldi, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Grellier,
Directors : Michel Lang,

August in Brittany at a seaside hotel. Some guests are new, some come every year and are friends. The men nearing middle age fish and plan infidelities; their wives have surprises of their ...

Actors : Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Silvia Reize, Tina Engel, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder ...

Actors : Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf,
Directors : Alain Payet,

A female Russian doctor is taken prisoner into a château where German officers go for entertainment, and she struggles both against imprisonment and the sadistic female warden.

Actors : Paulo Gracindo, Fernanda Montenegro, Zezé Motta, Maria Sílvia,
Directors : Arnaldo Jabor,

Middle-class family reform their apartment, and the noise, the contact with the workers and strange occurrences turn what was supposed to be a trivial matter into a trip to hell.

Actors : Nan Martin, Timothy Bottoms, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California. They rent a summer ...

Actors : Elaine Boies, Louise Gallandra, Jeannie Cusick, Dale Hansen,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs...

Actors : Peter Kilman, Kevin McKenzie, Katharine Hepburn, Dennis Dimster,
Directors : Richard A. Colla,

Two young boys and an eccentric old woman who owns a junkyard work together to build a hot-air balloon in time to launch it on the birthday of one boy's late grandfather.

Actors : Sally Johnson, Sandy Christen, Patty Dunning, Thom Rachford,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

The second film, A Thief in the Night being the first, A Distant Thunder continues the story of Patty, a young woman living in the "end times" referred to in biblical prophecy. This action ...

Actors : Carole-Ann Aylett, Ross Williams, Brian Hannan, Hardy Stow,
Directors : Paul Williams,

An unknown, tucked-away, medieval island is threatened by the advent of big business. A wealthy business man wants to develop the untouched island, which could then be ruined by the subsequent pollution.

Actors : Dorothy Buhrman, Sterling Frazier, Jillian Kesner, Peter Liapis,
Directors : Barbara Peeters,

Three carhops try to help save a failing drive-in restaurant.

Actors : Esther Studer, Ingrid Kehr, Monika Kälin, Brigitte Meyer,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

The imaginations of the girls at a Swiss finishing school are filled with erotic fantasies.

Actors : Nico, Laurent Terzieff, Maria Schneider,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead.

Actors : Chris Avram, Marisa Mell, Laura Trotter, Lou Castel,
Directors : Giulio Petroni,

Amanda, a beautiful American girl is soon to be married to Andrea Orsomandi, a wealthy nobleman who lives in an extravagant Gothic mansion. However there exists something dark, sinister and...

Actors : Liza Braconnier, Pierre Santini, Liliane Rovère, Carole Laure,
Directors : Joyce Buñuel,

Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was...

Actors : Linda Stayer, Cheryl Walde, Chiaki Otomo,
Directors : Yasuhiko Kawano,

A Japanese stunt-drivers team make its way to California for a car stunt tournament. Tomoho, a Japanese driver, falls for a beautiful American woman.

Actors : Yvonne Dwyer, Willy Adler, Sascha Atzenbeck, Ulrich Beiger,
Directors : Walter Boos,

Actors : Eric Mcanyana, Patty Patience, Cynthia Shange, Congress Majola,
Directors : Simon Sabela,

A young woman, Thembisile Khumalo (Cynthia Shange) is married to minister Zipho Khumalo. Thembisile is tired of the lifestyle the church offers and wants to go out and have fun. She soon ...

Actors : Ion Caramitru, Ion Lupu, Mihai Mereuta, Stela Furcovici,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1.