Best Female Lead movies of 1978

Actors : Amy Austria, Armida Siguion-Reyna, Nora Aunor, Ronald Corveau,
Directors : Eddie Garcia,

Nelia leaves her poor town to work as a maid in the city. Perceived as a lower-class citizen, Nelia gets harsh treatment that she does not deserve from her employer. She toils day and night...

Actors : Leslie Caron, Ramon Bieri, Catherine Bach, Bruce Graziano,
Directors : István Ventilla,

Nicole, an isolated widow who lives alone in her mansion, leads a decadent and lustful life. Using her sexy body and her vast fortune to manipulate those around her, she is obsessed with controlling all the people in her life.

Actors : Aachi Manorama, Shubha, Pandharibai, Srikanth,
Directors : Durai,

This film deals with the caste system, and the problems arising from it when a conventional, orthodox Brahmin girl (Shobha) falls in love with her non-Brahmin teacher (Srikanth).

Actors : Manjula, Rajesh, Saroja Devi B., Srinath,
Directors : Rao C.S.R.,

Lord Vishnu reborn as a Parshuram, son of Princess Renuka and Rishi Jamadagni, breaks the unholy alliance of King Kartaveeryarjuna and King Ravana of Lanka by deciding Ravan should rule the South and Karthaveeryarjuna in the North.

Actors : Lewis Collins, Gemma Craven, Robert Dorning, Eamonn Andrews,
Directors : Keith Beckett,

The story of a famous TV star and an unknown young actress. Their paths cross, they fall in love, and it ends happily ever after.

Actors : Sven Lindberg, Ernst Günther, Ingvar Kjellson, Ewa Fröling,
Directors : Jan Halldoff,

A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.

Actors : Anita Andic, Günther Brack, Petra Abstein, Vittorio Casagrande,
Directors : Rudolf Krause,

While lonely shop girl Resi Gutschi stays faithful to her cheating husband, all the other people in the neighborhood are having affairs and threesomes all over the place.

Actors : Bozidarka Frajt, Relja Basic, Miodrag Krivokapic, Ivan Stancic,
Directors : Kresimir Golik,

Ljubica is a middle-aged woman who lives in Zagreb and works as an audio pedagogue with deaf-mute children. She herself has a small child, while her husband she hardly communicates to, ...

Actors : Rakesh Khanna, Kanauj Kumar, Shahi Kapoor, Anitav Bachchan,
Directors : I.S. Johar,

Inder Sen Johar's much publicized comic look at the forcible sterilization program carried out under the orders of former Indian Prime Minsiter, Indira Gandhi, and her son, Sanjay Gandhi, ...

Actors : Eric Mcanyana, Patty Patience, Cynthia Shange, Congress Majola,
Directors : Simon Sabela,

A young woman, Thembisile Khumalo (Cynthia Shange) is married to minister Zipho Khumalo. Thembisile is tired of the lifestyle the church offers and wants to go out and have fun. She soon ...

Actors : Elton Charles, Denyse Alexander, Tom Bell, Shope Shodeinde,
Directors : Jack Gold,

Set in the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria provides an unusual historical representation of a black person's experience of England.

Actors : Bárbara Rey, José Antonio Ceinos, Miguel Ángel Godó, Patricia Adriani,
Directors : Hubert Frank,

A beautiful young girl parachutes onto a remote, isolated island, and finds herself taken prisoner by a gang of criminals hiding out there.

Actors : Mário Gomes, Armando Bógus, Beatriz Segall, Betty Faria,
Directors : Francisco Ramalho Jr.,

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

Actors : Antonis Antoniou, Myrto Parashi, Spyros Sakkas, Iro Kyriakaki,
Directors : Costas Ferris,

In August, the city of Athens is left to it's solitary and crazy wandering people. A melancholic teacher, falls in love with a girl, who's waiting for her meeting with a mysterious lover, ...

Actors : Robert Bosco, Yuri Alexis, Kathryn Dodd, Steve Lincoln,
Directors : Fereidun G. Jorjani,

Felicia Fox, a skilled fighter slumming as a meter maid, helps out two likable con men when they are marked for assassination by a rich, vengeful victim of one of their schemes.

Actors : Yvonne Dwyer, Willy Adler, Sascha Atzenbeck, Ulrich Beiger,
Directors : Walter Boos,

Actors : Ling Chia, Barry Chan, Lieh Lo, Angela Mao,
Directors : Hung Min Chen,

Angela Mao rips through her enemies! Fierce females Angela Mao and Judy Lee search and seize the Five Phoenix's Night-Shing Pearl from the wicked bandits of the Black Wind Fortress. Tieh ...

Actors : Johnny Dorelli, Edwige Fenech, Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno,
Directors : Steno,

Anna wants to improve her marriage to sculptor Marco but ends up having an affair with her new teacher Antonio as well. While performing a careful balancing act alternating between her two ...

Actors : Vince Csapos, Michael Heinz, Kelly Bradish, Donald Kenney,
Directors : Dean Wilson,

Two men motion to end the reign of terror brought forth by an unscrupulous sheriff.

Actors : Min Kyu Choi, Hyeong-Kan Choi, Chi Chu Chin, Lung Chu,

Dragon is trusted to deliver a list containing name of anti-Ching revolutionaries to the Ming leaders but is challenged by Ching loyalists along the way.