Best Female Lead movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Robert Fields, Paulina Porizkova, Gibby Brand, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Yurek Bogayevicz,

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...

Actors : Sandra Dee, Nita Talbot, Donald O'Connor, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Richard Thorpe,

Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she ...

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Barry Morse, Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ...

Actors : Gene Kelly, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Binnie Barnes,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

Forty year old Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley owns her own Manhattan based real estate agency specializing in upscale Manhattan apartments. She lives with her seventeen year old ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Joanne Woodward, Tresa Hughes, Sylvia Sidney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ...

Actors : Carlos Romero, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Celia Milius,
Directors : James B. Clark,

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Louise Kirtland, Teresa Wright,
Directors : James Ivory,

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.

Actors : Sharon Acker, Geneviève Bujold, Monique Leyrac, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Paul Almond,

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

Actors : Albert Salmi, Mackenzie Phillips, Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the ...

Actors : Scott Glenn, Barbara Hershey, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Sam Groom,
Directors : James Bridges,

Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She...

Actors : Franco Nero, Mark Burns, Joanna Shimkus, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Christopher Miles,

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted ...

Actors : Timothy West, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Peter Eyre,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a ...

Actors : Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves,
Directors : Walter Grauman,

A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Jan Niklas,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

Actors : Carol Lynley, Claire Trevor, Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga's stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show's money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay ...