Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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.

Actors : Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Amy Stryker, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

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 : Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Scott Wilson, Kim Darby,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the 1948 British film...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Akemi Negishi, Yôko Hori, Ryôko Ema, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Actors : Ann Marie, Ken Kerr, June Mack, Kitten Natividad,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna & Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not ...

Actors : Mel Gibson, Pat Evison, Piper Laurie, Alwyn Kurts,
Directors : Michael Pate,

A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuse his naiveté. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Roland Amstutz, Nathalie Baye, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

Actors : Hans Alfredson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Inger Nilsson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.

Actors : Lun Hua, Lung Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers ...

Actors : Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs, Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes,

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Greece 1939 - 1952 Fascist, Nazi, Communist conflict as seen through a family of travelling provincial players

Actors : Catherine Rivet, Sylvia Kristel, Frédéric Lagache, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Francis Giacobetti,

Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very ...

Actors : Cemil Sahbaz, Sadri Alisik, Ferdi Merter, Erol Amaç,
Directors : Hulki Saner,

The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Clu Gulager, Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.

Actors : Iya Savvina, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal...

Actors : Andra Akers, Bert Kramer, Lily Tomlin, John Travolta,
Directors : Jane Wagner,

A lonely socialite and a young drifter enter into a May-December romance.