Best Female Lead movies of 1979

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

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 : 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 : 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 : Jutta Lampe, Konstantin Wecker, Jessica Früh, Gudrun Gabriel,
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 : Maurizio Interlandi, Taida Urruzola, Juan Carlos Naya, Olga Karlatos,
Directors : Marcello Aliprandi,

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

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

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

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 ...

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 : 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 : Hans Christoph Buch, Willem Menne, Hanns Zischler, Gisela Stein,
Directors : Georg Brintrup,

Fiction film about a dispute between the German poetess Else Lasker-Schüler and her editors. The film takes place in Berlin before, during and after the First World War.

Actors : Aldine Muller, Rodolfo Arena, Ricardo Angelini, Carlos Arena,
Directors : Jean Garret,

Simple-minded young woman becomes a successful prostitute.

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Michael Elphick, Helen Mirren, John Woodvine,
Directors : Bill Hays,

A hopeless quiz team is revived by the addition of a bright young lecturer but all is not well when the barmaid takes a shine to him and this upsets her boyfriend.

Actors : Martin Vaughan, Judi Farr, Sam Neill, Lorna Lesley,
Directors : Linda Blagg,

This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents ...

Actors : Claus Obalski, Sabine Wollin, Ekkehardt Belle, Gina Janssen,
Directors : Franz Josef Gottlieb,

A young woman, just turning 19, is ready for anything, including fullfilling her dreams and fantasies. But two young men, Klaus and Stephen, are after her with their raging hormones to lead...

Actors : Junko Wakashiba, Akiko Kitamura, Takuma Ikéuchi, Toshio Hashimoto,
Directors : Claude Gagnon,

Follows the daily life of Keiko, a lonely young woman seeking for love in a cafe she frequents.

Actors : Colin Fox, Jean-Louis Roux, Jean Belzil-Gascon, Lise Thouin,
Directors : Jean-Claude Lord,

After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the ...

Actors : Rogério Fróes, Sandra Bréa, Djenane Machado, Sílvia Salgado,
Directors : Cláudio Cunha,

A Brazilian variation of the film "Thank God, It's Friday": Several lives intertwine at Rio de Janeiro's most famous nightclub of the time, New York City Disco.