Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Anne Bancroft, Perry King, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.

Actors : Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman, Julie Adams,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras,

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : Humbert Balsan, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...

Actors : Dick Gautier, Ed McMahon, George Segal, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Actors : Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Dennis Price,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

Actors : John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

Actors : Hugues Quester, Joe Dallesandro, Jane Birkin, Reinhard Kolldehoff,
Directors : Serge Gainsbourg,

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris ...

Actors : Micheál MacLiammóir, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Barbra Streisand, Molly Picon, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A housewife tries to finance her cab-driving husband's education.

Actors : Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Mario Adorf,

A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.

Actors : Drewe Henley, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen, Victoria Vetri,
Directors : Val Guest,

Set in the ancient past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their god, the sun, in return for ...

Actors : Maurice Denham, Sandor Elès, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

In medieval Europe aging Countess Elisabeth rules harshly with the help of lover Captain Dobi. Finding that washing in the blood of young girls makes her young again she gets Dobi to start ...

Actors : Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

Actors : Paloma Picasso, Fabrice Luchini, Lise Danvers, Charlotte Alexandra,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.