Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Kate Harrington, James Olson, Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Dean Jones, Roddy McDowall, Dorothy Provine, Hayley Mills,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an SOS, the FBI assigns a cat-allergic agent to the case.

Actors : John Saxon, Titti Tomaino, Valentina Cortese, Letícia Román,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

Actors : Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook,
Directors : Richard Lester,

Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, ...

Actors : James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Janine Gray, Peter Finch,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...

Actors : Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Dominique Sanda, Claude Ollier,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to...

Actors : Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Terence Stamp,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A spy spoof in the 60s tradition featuring the comic book heroine Modesty Blaise set in the Italian Mediterranean.

Actors : Tom Naylor, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel,
Directors : John Llewellyn Moxey,

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

Actors : Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Carla Marlier, Hubert Deschamps,
Directors : Louis Malle,

This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Ten-year-old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover. ...

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Peggy Ashcroft, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother, and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness, in this powerful psychological thriller.

Actors : Richard Banks, George Mitchell, Steve Brodie, Katherine Victor,
Directors : Jerry Warren,

The pointlessly named Batwoman and her bevy of Batmaidens fight evil and dance.

Actors : Yuriko Hoshi, Yôsuke Natsuki, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Actors : Beppe Wolgers, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Inger Nilsson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

With the help of her friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi Longstocking ventures to the South Pacific island Porto Piluse to rescue her father, who was captured by ruthless pirates.

Actors : Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Doris Day, James Garner,
Directors : Michael Gordon,

After five years lost at sea, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband remarries.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux,
Directors : Henry Levin,

Four very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break and seek out various adventures and romance for themselves.

Actors : Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Sharmila Tagore, Karuna Bannerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

Actors : Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos, Olivia de Havilland, James Caan,
Directors : Walter Grauman,

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

Actors : Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Lionel Jeffries, Margaret Rutherford, William Mervyn,
Directors : George Pollock,

After Miss Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

Actors : Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates,
Directors : Monte Hellman,

A mysterious woman persuades two cowboys to help her in a revenge scheme.