Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : David Niven, Marcel Dalio, Paul Newman, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

Lady L. is an elegant, elderly lady who recalls the past loves and lusty adventures she has lived through.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Katharine Ross, James Caan, Don Stroud,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

A young couple who are into kinky "mind games" get more than they bargained for when a mysterious woman comes into their lives.

Actors : Monica Zetterlund, Lars Ekborg, Gösta Ekman, Birgitta Andersson,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.

Actors : Deborah Walley, Burl Ives, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire,
Directors : James Neilson,

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

Actors : Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Catherine Finn,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.

Actors : Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Edith Evans, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Nice, eccentric, idealistic and slightly mad Countess Aurelia, who believes that the good must prevail over evil, decides to stand up to corrupt powerful leaders of Paris in her own way, which grabs everyones attention.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Harry Baird, Edith Evans, Jack Austin, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...

Actors : Giani Esposito, Betty Schneider, Daniel Crohem, Françoise Prévost,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping ...

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, ...

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

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 : Red Buttons, Robert Goulet, Judy Garland, Paul Frees,
Directors : Abe Levitow,

Mouser Jaune Tom and house cat Mewsette are living in the French countryside, but Mewsette wants to experience the refinement and excitement of the Paris living. But upon arrival she falls ...

Actors : Howard Duff, Kim Novak, Tony Randall, James Garner,
Directors : Michael Gordon,

Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children...

Actors : Tomio Aoki, Emiko Aizawa, Tomoko Aoyagi, Setsuko Amamiya,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.

Actors : Eli Wallach, Pola Negri, Hayley Mills, Peter McEnery,
Directors : James Neilson,

British musicologist Frances Ferris and her late teen niece Nicky Ferris are traveling through Crete recording Greek folk songs for the BBC. In the usually quiet coastal town of Aghios ...

Actors : Izzet Günay, Semih Sezerli, Ayfer Feray, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

My Prostitute Love is a 'realist melodrama' that represents the sentiment of 60s' Istanbul in an authentic way. Poetically written and carefully crafted in cinematography, it juxtaposes the...

Actors : Robert Fuller, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth,

As Aunt Alice, Ruth Gordon applies for the job of housekeeper in the Tucson, Arizona home of widow Claire Marrable in order to find out what happened to a missing widowed friend, Edna ...

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Tallulah Bankhead, Peter Vaughan, Maurice Kaufmann,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

A young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.