Best Female Lead movies of 1971

Actors : Farida Jalal, Parikshat Sahni, Prem Chopra, Nutan,
Directors : Ramanna,

Burma-based widow, Parvati, along with two sons, Prem and Rajesh, re-locates to Bombay to live with her late husband's friend and widower, Sewakram, and his two daughters, Shanti and Durga....

Actors : No Tsai, Hsieh Wang, Lily Ho, James Nam,
Directors : Pao-Shu Kao,

A young woman tries to find a group of villains responsible for her eldest sister's death, but is shocked to discover that her fiancé is one of them.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Giovanna Ralli, Denise Bataille, Jean-Marc Bory,
Directors : Italo Zingarelli,

A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.

Actors : Peter Gonzales Falcon, Lucia Bosé, Alvaro Piccardi, Glauco Mauri,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life, takes refuge in the country alone with her memories, and is later returned to the asylum.

Actors : Hanne Løye, Tone Schwarzott, Anne Marie Ottersen, Per Tofte,
Directors : Nicole Macé,

Gjennom et fengslende handlingsmønster bringes tilskuerne innpå livet i tre mennesker som forsøker en samlivsform på tvers av tradisjonen og tabugrensene. Hvordan opplever menn og kvinner ...

Actors : Domitila de Chungara, Eusebio Gironda, Federico Vallejo, Felicidad Coca García,
Directors : Jorge Sanjinés,

A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.

Actors : Barbara Bach, Claudine Auger, Marc Porel, Judith Magre,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Nathalie Silvener, a married woman, falls for Gilles, a depressed and brilliant Parisian journalist who is already in a relationship with a model.

Actors : Hee-ra Kim, Yu-kyeong Oh,
Directors : Muk Kim,

Three brothers and their wives live together in the same house. However, one of them is actually a werefox capable of destroying them all.

Actors : Casey Larrain, Stud Stetson, Sherry Duz, Edward D. Wood Jr.,
Directors : Edward D. Wood Jr.,

A beautiful, love starved woman named Misty, leaves an abusive relationship with an odd man. She joins a pack of bikers and many sexual escapades and intense happenings occur on her adventure into a new freedom.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dusica Zegarac, Boris Dvornik, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic,
Directors : Zdravko Randic,

A young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experiences the...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, María Asquerino, Analía Gadé, Espartaco Santoni,
Directors : Rafael Moreno Alba,

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

Actors : Maria Wolska, Eriikka Magnusson, Ulla Kivipato, Eugene Holman,
Directors : Matti Sokka,

Racial tensions arise from a love affair between a Finnish nurse and and a Somali doctor in the late sixties, when African immigrants were very rare in Finland.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Senta Berger, Mario Feliciani, Vittorio Caprioli,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Actors : Phillip Webber, Joanie Andrews, Ruth Hurd, George Bartlett,
Directors : Dick Bartlett,

Ruby moves to Texarkana Arkansas and has a hard time fitting in at her new school.

Actors : Katsutoshi Akiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Oryu meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being damaged by air pollution from a local factory.

Actors : Juliane Korén, Vera Oelschlegel, Burkhard Mann, Helmut Schreiber,
Directors : Walter Beck,

The King and Queen plan an opulent feast to celebrate the birth of their long-awaited child, Dornröschen. They invite not only the members of the court, but also the fairies, so that they ...

Actors : Katia Christine, Luigi De Filippo, Gianni Nazzaro, Stelvio Rosi,
Directors : Ettore Maria Fizzarotti,

A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.

Actors : Johnny Sekka, Elizabeth of Toro, Orlando Martins,
Directors : Hans Jürgen Pohland,

This is the story of Okonkwo, an Ibo man who lives in the village of Umoufia, in Nigeria. It shows the traditions and culture of the Ibo people, while also telling Okonkwo's story.

Actors : Ann Knox, Linda Hoffman, Hugh McIntyre, Eileen McIntyre,
Directors : Clarke Mackey,

A young woman bored of life with her parents falls for a slightly older man. When she finds that he doesn't fulfill her needs she falls for a free-spirited friend of his.

Actors : Assunta Perez, Roberto Maya, Newton Prado, Joana Fomm,
Directors : Maurice Capovila,

Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters.