Best Female Lead movies of 1961

Actors : Faina Ranevskaya, Lyudmila Markeliya, Ariadna Shengelaia, Svetlana Kharitonova,
Directors : Nadezhda Kosheverova,

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her...

Actors : Walter Barnes, Jerome Courtland, Agostino Salvietti, Lisa Gastoni,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time. The King's Guard captures her, and she finds herself in the same ...

Actors : Rosita Quintana, Evangelina Elizondo, María Victoria, Julio Aldama,
Directors : Roberto Rodríguez,

Three rowdy young women shall marry by a certain date, or else they will not receive the wealth their late father left them in testament.

Actors : Shivaji Ganesan, M.R. Radha, T.S. Balaiah, Gemini Ganesan,
Directors : A. Bhimsingh,

Three children adopted from their by birth homes and raised by foster parents grow up in Muslim, Christian and Hindu households. But will they ever reunite with their original families?

Actors : Milena Dravic, Sonja Hlebs, Olga Nadj, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Mladomir 'Purisa' Djordjevic,

Whilst buying train tickets there was a mix up and Visnja has to travel to the seaside before her husband. After arrival many men start romanticizing her. In the same time, her husband is ...

Actors : Yuriy Gulyayev, Eduard Koshman, Yevgenia Miroshnichenko, Olga Reus-Petrenko,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

Actors : Herval Rossano, Eliana, Heloísa Helena, Geraldo Maia,
Directors : Watson Macedo,

Terezinha, a dancer in the carnival parade, is poor and lives in a shack in a shantytown. But she dreams of getting rich and becoming a socialite. When her aunt gets ill, she takes her ...

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Jean Servais, Peter van Eyck, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

When an enigmatic woman hires a group of criminals to rob a US Army payroll armored truck bound for Marseilles things go wrong.

Actors : Paraluman, Lolita Rodriguez, Tito Galla, Luis Gonzales,
Directors : Conrado Conde,

Like a thunder from the sky this powerful motion picture will strike at your very souls.

Actors : Paul Löwinger, Peter Kraus, Hans von Borsody, Karin Dor,
Directors : Franz Antel,

Eva is small dancing girl at a revue-show . When she finds out the fact that she inherited the palace hotel in St. Wolfgang at the Wolfgang lake she resigns. Together with her friend Maxie ...

Actors : Carlo Delle Piane, Chelo Alonso, Hélène Chanel, Walter Chiari,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

The Grand Hotel Cortez is an old castle and the tale says that it is haunted. "Ghost" is the nickname of the famous jewels thief whom Jean-Marie Semolin wants to catch. Jean-Marie comes ...

Actors : Hui Shi, Fong Pau, Ting Fang, Juanjuan Chen,
Directors : Sun-Fung Lee,

Set in Ming Dynasty, famous official Hai Rui corrects an unjust case.

Actors : Kosta Tsonev, Anani Yavashev, Vasiliy Merkurev, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Vladimir Yanchev,

Ani, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend Boyan, a worker at a large construction site. The letter contains a single word "yes". Boyan ...

Actors : Nestor de Villa, Vilma Valera, Nida Blanca,
Directors : Tony Santos,

See The Twist the new dance craze.

Actors : Lauretta Masiero, Aroldo Tieri, Raimondo Vianello, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mario Amendola,

Il conte Carlo Alberto Raffo di Pontello possiede solo debiti. Manlio fa l'artista di varietà con poco successo ed è senza una lira. Ambedue vanno al ballo delle debuttanti per cercare una ...

Actors : Vesna Bojanic, Nada Kasapic, Josip Zappalorto, Tatjana Beljakova,
Directors : Fadil Hadzic,

In order to gather information about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement is sending one girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the...

Actors : Jeanette Lin Tsui, Kelly Lai Chen, Yin Wang, Lai Wang,
Directors : Robert Chung,

A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of mischievous working-class 3rd graders that ...

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Virna Lisi, Hélène Chanel, Little Tony,
Directors : Mario Mattoli,

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized ...

Actors : Ewa Krzyzewska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Beata Tyszkiewicz,
Directors : Tadeusz Konwicki,

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a ...

Actors : Seok-hun Kim, Jeong-suk Moon, Seung-ho Kim,
Directors : Won-jik Lim,

A woman is deserted by her boyfriend when he learns her father is a rickshaw driver. Having nowhere to go, she turns to prostitution. Luckily, her boyfriend soon feels guilty about the way ...