Best Female Lead movies of 1960

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.

Actors : Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani, Andrea Checchi,
Directors : Mario Bava,

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Setsuko Hara, Mariko Okada, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

Actors : Dean Martin, Eddie Foy Jr., Judy Holliday, Fred Clark,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls ...

Actors : Rex Harrison, Doris Day, John Gavin, Myrna Loy,
Directors : David Miller,

In London, a newly-wed American woman's sanity comes into question when she claims to be the victim of a stalker.

Actors : Tom Naylor, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel,
Directors : John Llewellyn Moxey,

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Catherine Demongeot, Carla Marlier, Hubert Deschamps,
Directors : Louis Malle,

This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Ten-year-old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover. ...

Actors : Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux,
Directors : Henry Levin,

Four very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break and seek out various adventures and romance for themselves.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

In Australia's Outback during the early 20th century the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon but the mom and son want to settle while the dad is against it.

Actors : Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Anthony Asquith,

A Millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set-up by their respective parents.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Wolfgang Preiss,
Directors : Fritz Lang,

During the 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse is using hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.

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 : 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 : 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 : Yûsuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Yoshiko Kuga,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Ev, along with her husband, Harold, and their lawyer friend Martin, are swimming while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, ...