Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Aline MacMahon, Judy Garland, Jack Klugman,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father...

Actors : Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.

Actors : Erika Remberg, Frank Wolff, Paolo Turco, Silvana Venturelli,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in ...

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Doris Day, Pat Carroll, Brian Keith,
Directors : Howard Morris,

Two widowed people fall in love and marry, unprepared for the hostile reactions of their children.

Actors : Monica Zetterlund, Lars Ekborg, Gösta Ekman, Birgitta Andersson,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, James Caan,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

A young couple who are into kinky "mind games" get more than they bargained for when a mysterious woman comes into their lives.

Actors : Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

Actors : Shôichi Ozawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Sumiko Sakamoto, Chôchô Miyako,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Life of a pornographer who tries to stay under the radar of the mob. He has a mistress, a step-son, a step-daughter (whom he's attracted to) and a wife who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a restless carp.

Actors : Deborah Walley, Burl Ives, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire,
Directors : James Neilson,

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Gyanesh Mukherjee,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Actors : Elizabeth Ercy, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...

Actors : Lucile Saint-Simon, Clotilde Joano, Bernadette Lafont, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Jessie Royce Landis, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

In this adaptation of Françoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful and highly successful 40-year-old businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of ...

Actors : Shirley Clarke, Gerome Ragni, Viva, James Rado,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Actors : Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her with to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for independence - and ...

Actors : Simi Garewal, Kaberi Bose, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Richard Rush,

A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of ...

Actors : Margot Trooger, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Inger Nilsson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

The further adventures of super-strong girl Pippi Longstocking and her friends Tommy and Annika in this sequel compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series.