Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Actors : Alice Arno, Jack Taylor, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Roy Scheider, Janet Brandt, Rebecca Dianna Smith, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother...

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 : Brigitte Mira, Karlheinz Böhm, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ...

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Spiros Andros, Charles Boyer, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Donald Hotton, Trish Van Devere, David Gautreaux,
Directors : George Bowers,

A girl is haunted by a phantom hearse, which she believes is connected to her departed aunt, a witch with a bad reputation in town.

Actors : Michael Fremer, Harry Shearer, Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

The animal kingdom stages its own olympic games.

Actors : Jean Servais, Daniel Emilfork, Erika Blanc, Jacques Monseau,
Directors : Jean Brismée,

Six of seven tourists in a east European castle overnight are victims of a helper of the devil. Is Satan willing to spare their souls?

Actors : Jean-Guy Latour, Dyanne Thorne, Michel-René Labelle, Gilbert Beaumont,
Directors : Jean LaFleur,

Erotic adventure in Siberia.

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 : Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Roberto Posse, Bernice Stegers,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.

Actors : Mari Töröcsik, Iván Darvas, Lili Darvas, Erzsi Orsolya,
Directors : Károly Makk,

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

Actors : Yuka Mizuno, Naozo Kato, Chia-Hui Liu, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted ...

Actors : James Mason, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Terence Young,

When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : François Leterrier,

Emmanuelle and her architect husband continue their amoral lifestyle in the Seychelles. But when a casual dilliance between her and a film director starts to turn serious her husband shows ...

Actors : Britt Ekland, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Sidney Gilliat,

Based on an Agatha Christie suspense novel; a newly-wed couple are threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

Actors : Barbara Steele, Avery Schreiber, Cameron Mitchell, Rebecca Balding,
Directors : Denny Harris,

During her first semester at college, a co-ed finds housing at a seaside mansion where, following the death of a fellow-student, she becomes entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the property and it's secretive tenants.

Actors : Patti D'Arbanville, Bernard Giraudeau, Mathieu Carrière, Mona Kristensen,
Directors : David Hamilton,

A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.