Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Len Cariou, Diana Rigg, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik ...

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.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Ellen Burstyn,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Bulut Aras, Sener Sen, Adile Nasit, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Kartal Tibet,

Portrayal of a young depressed Turkish widow in the slums whose infinite dignity alone looks after her orphan kids is depicted by the son of the town sheriff, who is in love with her.

Actors : Laura Gemser, Nieves Navarro, Donald O'Brien, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A reporter and an anthropologist traverse the amazon jungle to unearth the origins behind a mysterious woman, reputed to have been raised by a cannibal tribe.

Actors : Niels Arestrup, Chantal Akerman, Claire Wauthion,
Directors : Chantal Akerman,

'Je' is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. 'Tu' is the script. 'Il' is a lorry driver. 'Elle' is the girlfriend.

Actors : Jerry Delony, Uschi Digard, Dyanne Thorne, Max Thayer,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

In the vast deserts of the Middle East, the lascivious tigress Ilsa joins the white flesh slavery ring of a maniacal sheikh overlord.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Robert Middleton, Bud Spencer, Bill Vanders,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

Two nice guys, a wrestler (Bud Spencer) and an Ice-cream vendor (Giuliano Gemma) are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is "Sorriso". With the ...

Actors : Robert Lang, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

Ellen Wheeler, a rich woman, is recovering from a nervous breakdown with the help of her husband and a good friend. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does ...

Actors : Anjanette Comer, Marianna Hill, Ruth Roman, Susanne Zenor,
Directors : Ted Post,

A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Pam Grier,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, ...

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

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 : Mia Farrow, Robin Bailey, Dorothy Alison, Diane Grayson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A young blind woman is pursued by a maniac while staying with family in their country manor.

Actors : Jack Elam, Ernest Borgnine, Raquel Welch, Robert Culp,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosanna Fratello, Gian Maria Volontè, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Pam Grier, Austin Stoker,
Directors : William Girdler,

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town....

Actors : Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, 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.