Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Bernadette Lafont, Guy Marchand, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and ...

Actors : Yves Beneyton, Annemarie Düringer, Isabelle Huppert, Florence Giorgetti,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

Beatrice is a very reserved and quiet young woman. Her friend Marylene is left by her lover and brings her to Cabourg (Normandy) for a few days' vacation. There, Beatrice, an apprentice ...

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Pam Grier, Austin Stoker,
Directors : William Girdler,

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Actors : Maribel Martín, Cristina Galbó, Lilli Palmer, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Narciso Ibáñez Serrador,

A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.

Actors : Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand, Mirella Rancelot,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Jean-Charles Tacchella,

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.

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 : Rez Cortez, Ruel Vernal, Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge.

Actors : Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Liza Minnelli, James Coco,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her with to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for independence - and ...

Actors : Paul Scofield, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Reid, Lee Remick,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide they've come to live with them.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Gabriel Jabbour, Samy Ben-Youb,
Directors : Moshé Mizrahi,

Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. ...

Actors : Franca Maï, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive ...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Hannah de Leeuwe, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.

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 : Katharine Ross, John Standing, Sam Elliott, Ian Hogg,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A millionaire, a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker, a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow...Five of the most powerful people in the world, and Maggie ...

Actors : Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.

Actors : Tania Busselier, Dyanne Thorne, Eric Falk, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile ...

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of ...

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.