Best Female Lead movies of 1960

Actors : Eva Bartok, Antonio Pierfederici, John Drew Barrymore, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Piero Regnoli,

When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. They soon find themselves involved with a beautiful woman who may wind up being even more trouble for them than the botched robbery.

Actors : Mirtha Legrand, Alberto Argibay, Walter Vidarte, Luis Medina Castro,
Directors : Daniel Tinayre,

A young woman is raped by a gang.

Actors : Marie-José Nat, Jacques Aubertin, Amédée, Robert Berry,

A Belgian village is struck by repeated flooding, all this because they lack a new sewer. But the Ministry delays in providing the funding needed to build it. To alert public opinion, the ...

Actors : Joanne Dru, Robert Strauss, Mark Stevens, Asher Dann,
Directors : Byron Haskin,

A young, handsome man works on the yacht of a Parisian tycoon who happens to be away at the moment. Two nautical layabouts convince the man to take them out looking for the sunken treasure.

Actors : Kostas Baladimas, Vasilis Avlonitis, Koula Agagiotou, Rena Aroni,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

A lively girl, Kakia, works to help her sick mother, but her rebellious character brings her into frequent conflict with her bosses. Friction with the snooty and aloof Maro is the pretense ...

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Gérard Blain, Yvonne Furneaux, Antonella Lualdi,
Directors : Mario Camerini,

The lives, loves and disappointments of a group of artist friends living in the same neighborhood in Rome, Via Margutta, a mecca for young artists, each struggling to be a success.

Actors : Jeanne Valérie, Edmund Purdom, Jacques Sernas, Arnoldo Foà,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised ...

Actors : Ying Cao, Meiping He, Yixing Guan, Xin-Gang Wang,

Set in early post-liberation period, a working group led by PLA instructor comes to Meng Long Sha -- an area of Dai nationality -- to fight reactionaries.

Actors : Lee Philips, Jack Ging, Archie Duncan, Diane Baker,
Directors : Paul Guilfoyle,

Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical...

Actors : Achala Sachdev, Rajendra Kumar, Ulhas, Mala Sinha,

Rajan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Basantpur along with his mom; dad, Dindayal; a semi-senile paternal uncle, Bholey; and a widowed paternal aunt. During his childhood, while lighting ...

Actors : Jin Kyu Kim, Seong-ja Bang, Min Lee, Ji-mee Kim,
Directors : Hun Choi,

Forced into prostitution to survive the hardships of the Korean War, Ji-mi agonizes over her fate. However, when her boyfriend whom she thought killed in battle shows up in the red light ...

Actors : Germán Cobos, Imperio Argentina, Paloma Valdés, Elena Barrios,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

Rosa, a poor and ill widow, has a child and, with her doctor's help, gives him to a rich family who has just lost their baby. When she recovers she enters their service as nanny. As time ...

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Kakia Analyti, Nikos Xanthopoulos, Costas Kakavas,
Directors : Hristos Apostolou,

A servant appears in a hotel as a noble lady falls for the son of her boss.

Actors : Korneliya Bozhanova, Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Georgi Naumov, Georgi Kaloyanchev,
Directors : Rangel Vulchanov,

A lyrical account of a difficult love in a class-conscious society.

Actors : Spiros Focás, Carlo Giustini, Giancarlo Sbragia, Belinda Lee,
Directors : Vittorio Cottafavi,

Scheming Messalina marries Roman Emperor Claudius but goes too far with a gladiator.

Actors : Ruth Dunning, Max Butterfield, Richard O'Sullivan, Gillian Vaughan,
Directors : John Lemont,

A widow must take drastic action to prevent her younger son falling too deeply under the influence of his worthless older brother.

Actors : Ziyue Zhao, Ting Zhou, Pei Liu,
Directors : Rong Wei,

Three poor children in Tibet leave home in search of a road being built by the People's Liberation Army.

Actors : Micheline Presle, Martha Hyer, Wolfgang Preiss, Carlos Thompson,

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military ...

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Severin Bijelic, Mija Aleksic, Olivera Markovic,
Directors : Zorz Skrigin,

Through several entangled stories, province atmosphere is shown, in which new ideas are hard to penetrate. Parallel with the seventh anniversary of peasant's cooperative farm, activity of a...

Actors : Rosemary Lindsay, Margot Fonteyn, Brian Ashbridge, Michael Somes,
Directors : Paul Czinner,

Filmed on the stage of London's Covent Garden. Includes extracts from Swan lake, Ondine & The Firebird.