Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Antonio Pietrangeli,

Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.

Actors : Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Joanna Shimkus, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

Actors : Phil Silvers, Shelley Winters, Peter Lawford, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment by three former GIs who all believe to be the father of her daughter Gia.

Actors : Despo Diamantidou, Maro Kodou, Stavros Xenidis, Giorgos Konstadinou,
Directors : Yorgos Tzavellas,

An unmarried couple in the strict Greek society of the 60s.

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

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

Actors : Roger Pigaut, Robert Hossein, Christian Rode, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the fourth of the Angélique series, the heroine sets sail in hopes of discovering the truth about a man she once loved and lost.

Actors : Catherine Allégret, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, ...

Actors : Hloi Liaskou, Lili Papayanni, Labros Konstadaras, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

About Aleka who is obsessed with playing cards and the efforts of her husband to make her quit this bad "habit".

Actors : Micheline Presle, Sandra Dee, John Lund, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Henry Levin,

Rich socialite Chantal marries Eugene, a photographer, and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

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 : Shinsuke Ashida, Ranko Akagi, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Labros Konstadaras, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they ...

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Labros Konstadaras, Stavros Xenidis,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.

Actors : Nonna Koperzhinskaya, Andrei Sova, Aleksey Kozhevnikov, Nadezhda Rumyantseva,

Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, ...

Actors : James Rucker, Hal Hopper, Lorna Maitland, Mark Bradley,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. ...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, Lorella De Luca,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An 'angel-faced' gunfighter is tasked with infiltrating a ranch overrun by Mexican bandits and saving their hostages, including the fiancée of the local sheriff.

Actors : Alain Cuny, Giampiero Albertini, Gian Maria Volontè, Mark Frechette,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.

Actors : Tatyana Yukina, Anatoli Kubatsky, Olga Yukina, Tatyana Barysheva,
Directors : Aleksandr Rou,

Olya steps through the mirror into the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors where Yalo resides. The kingdom, under the rule of King Yagupop LXXVII (reverse of Popugay, meaning parrot) produces ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot,

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.