Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Comedy about a flighty, bored, kleptomaniac wife of a banker who robs her husband's bank of $60,000.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Yôko Yamamoto, Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Hiroshi Noguchi,

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is ...

Actors : Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Vasilis Georgiadis,

The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.

Actors : Manoj Kumar, Helen, Nanda, Pran,
Directors : Raja Nawathe,

Eight people are trapped on an island when their plane abandons them. They find a large mansion whose butler is expecting them. Then one by one, they die...

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Lee J. Cobb, Franco Nero, Tano Cimarosa,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie, but she is in fact the wife of Paolo Nicolosi, the only eyewitness of the murder. ...

Actors : Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Anna Quayle,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Actors : Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Sarne,

A provincial girl is entangled in the mod morality of London.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.

Actors : Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Kusunoki,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jacques Santi, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the fifth and final of the Angélique series, the beautiful heroine is sold into a sultan's harem.

Actors : Igor Ilyinsky, Larisa Golubkina, Yuriy Yakovlev, Nikolay Kryuchkov,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Hans Verner, Sophia Loren, Peter Finch,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

Beautiful woman who survived concentration camp goes to Israel in 1948 to track down Nazi husband who betrayed her.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Brigitte Bardot, Nicolas Bataille, Dirk Sanders,
Directors : Louis Malle,

When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...

Actors : Sadri Alisik, Diclehan Baban, Ayla Algan, Handan Adali,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Black comedy about a girl who runs away from her rural village to Istanbul to become and actress and an old drunkard street photographer.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Spyros Kalogirou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

This is a story of two families, on the island of Crete, whose everlasting rivalry has split the inhabitants in two groups. In Chania, Crete the townspeople either defend the Fourtounakis ...

Actors : Paige Lee, Mary Marr, Gennadi Vernov, Mamie Van Doren,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.

Actors : Theano Ioannidou, Aleka Katselli, Giannis Fertis, Irene Papas,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.