Best Female Lead movies of 1974

Actors : Mia Bendixsen, Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Daniel Sarky, Marika Green,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

The wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok, Emmanuelle embarks on a voyage of sexual discovery.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly decide to marry, appalling everyone around them.

Actors : Helen Hayes, John McIntire, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Actors : Metin Akpinar, Emel Sayin, Zeki Alasya, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

4 friends who are mistreated in a casino want to revenge by kidnapping the singer of the casino.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Barbra Streisand, Molly Picon, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A housewife tries to finance her cab-driving husband's education.

Actors : James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

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 : 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 : Maria Perschy, Bárbara Rey, Carlos Lemos, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.

Actors : Mario Scaccia, Mimsy Farmer, Jho Jhenkins, Maurizio Bonuglia,
Directors : Francesco Barilli,

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Actors : Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, George Coulouris, Carla Gravina,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meaning psychologist lead Ippolita...

Actors : Gabriele Lavia, Nino Segurini, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson,

Juliet Mills plays a young pregnant woman in San Francisco who is going to have the devil's baby during her strange possession. Richard Johnson shows up to help her... but what does he really want?

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Julie Andrews, Dan O'Herlihy, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Willy Braque, John Rico, Paul Bisciglia,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.