Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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

Erotic adventure in Siberia.

Actors : Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny, Bernice Stegers, Roberto Posse,
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 : Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Gérard Darrieu, Bernard Dhéran,
Directors : Joël Séria,

Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a ...

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

The animal kingdom stages its own olympic games.

Actors : Alice Arno, Monica Swinn, Jack Taylor, 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 : 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 : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert,
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 : 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 : Thalmus Rasulala, Yaphet Kotto, Pam Grier, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to ...

Actors : Macha Magall, Xiro Papas, Edilio Kim, Gino Turini,
Directors : Luigi Batzella,

This is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities. A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, ...

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

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.