Best Female Lead movies of 1971

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 : Adriana Prieto, Flávio Porto, Afonso Cláudio, Francisco Di Franco,
Directors : Roberto Santos,

A poor and beautiful young woman living in the backwoods of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is protected by a peasant.

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 : 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 : Pietie Meyer, Lindie Roux, Lance James, Christine Stevens,
Directors : Wally Green,

A teenager is devastated after learning that her loving father is having an affair with his secretary.

Actors : Claudia Gravy, Ingrid Garbo, Puri Villa, Rosanna Yanni,
Directors : Pedro Masó,

The novelty of women's football fills in the stadia with fans of the sport, and of the beautiful legs. The women are more interested in leading their boyfriends to the church then in field ...

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 : 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.

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 : José Bénazéraf, Michel Lemoine, Elizabeth Teissier, Janine Reynaud,
Directors : José Bénazéraf,

A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and the latter's husband, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.

Actors : Dusica Zegarac, Pavle Vuisic, 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 : 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 : Andrzej Malec, Halina Golanko, Anna Dymna, Wladyslaw Hancza,
Directors : Henryk Kluba,

A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.

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 : James Gregory, Steve Forrest, Anne Baxter, Coleen Gray,
Directors : Dick Ross,

Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.

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 : Roger Carel, Claude Brosset, Elisabeth Wiener, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Michel Boisrond,

This French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have taken over a post office, totally ...

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

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.