Best Female Lead movies of 1972

Actors : Ulrike von Zerboni, Manja Behrens, Erwin Geschonneck, Günther Simon,
Directors : Konrad Wolf,

Actors : Frank Wolff, Fiammetta Baralla, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

Two tribes of dimwitted cavemen prepare for war against each other.

Actors : Manuela de Freitas, Bárbara Vieira, Alberto Inácio, Maria de Saisset,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Vanda is a young widow, with a number of marriages past her, who tends to venerate each deceased husband, as much as she betrays and denigrates the present one.

Actors : Véronique Le Flaguais, Jean-François Guité, Guy Foucault, Liliane Lemaître-Auger,
Directors : Mireille Dansereau,

Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Steve Lawrence, Stella Stevens, Gary Lockwood,
Directors : Jackie Cooper,

Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see...

Actors : Madonna Ghazi, Salah Moukhallati, Micheline Daou, Mona Wassef,
Directors : Christian Ghazi,

Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot lines to organize a stinging attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut's political milieu.

Actors : Eduardo Alcaraz, Irma Serrano, Rogelio Guerra, Tito Junco,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

La Martina arrives to a small conservative town, fascinating men and winding women up.

Actors : Carlo Gentili, Jerry Colman, Raffaele Curi, Simonetta Vitelli,
Directors : Demofilo Fidani,

The customers of a masseuse fall prey to a mysterious serial killer, one by one.

Actors : Kerim Afsar, Kadir Inanir, Aynur Aydan, Fatma Girik,
Directors : Duygu Sagiroglu,

It is the classical love story between the daughter of the sultan, Leyla, and the poor peasant, Mecnun.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Madeleine Renaud, Annie Girardot, Murray Head,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

Severine, her husband Georges, Alain, Baba, his brothers and sisters and granny Boul make up the Boulard clan. The Boulard Hotel, all it up in the light of a mandarin lamp, is their empire....

Actors : Kostas Karagiorgis, Hristos Nomikos, Rita Bensousan, Eleni Anousaki,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Jirina Svorcová, Zdenek Kampf, Jirí Sovák,
Directors : Josef Mach,

The year is 1953. Engineer Jaroslav Král (Zdenek Kampf) has not joined in the enthusiastic efforts to rebuild the country initiated after the Communist takeover in February 1948, and has ...

Actors : Chiang Chao, Ling Chia, Chun Yang, David Wei Tang,
Directors : Feng-Chi Yu,

A female kick-boxer takes revenge on those who enslaved her family.

Actors : Polly Adams, Alexander Davion, Georgina Ward, Mike Lewin,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

Homosexual and heterosexual adventures in a so-called clinic.

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Andreas Barkoulis, Anna Fonsou, Faidon Georgitsis,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A neglected wife, even though living wealthy, starts practicing prostitution.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Sami Frey, Olga Karlatos, Michel Bouquet,
Directors : Jean-Louis Bertuccelli,

In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move on and all elements for a tragedy are there.

Actors : Karin Hofmann, Nadine De Rangot, Ingrid Steeger, Chitta Coray,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends' sexual escapades.

Actors : David Williams, Stephen Bone, Teresa Codling, Adrian Hall,
Directors : Ian Shand,

An alien spaceship lands on earth, and its inhabitants decide to help a poor family.

Actors : Suzana Gonçalves, Mariza Mayer, Yara Lins, Edgard Franco,
Directors : Maurício Nabuco,

Bia is a drug-addicted middle-aged woman, separated from her husband Eduardo. She takes Bebeto, a drug dealer, as her lover, so she can have access to drugs. But Bebeto mistreats her and ...

Actors : Sascha Hehn, Josef Moosholzer, Doris Arden, Ulrich Beiger,
Directors : Eberhard Schröder,

The problems girls face in the unisex environment of a convent school are revealed in a series of vignettes.