Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Marie-France Pisier, John Beck,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

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.

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 : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Feng Ku, Evelyne Kraft, Wei Tu Lin, Danny Lee,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

King Kong goes Hong Kong as a giant Himalayan beast tries to save a sexy Russia Tarzanette from a sleazy show-biz promoter. The action, locations set in India, and interracial romance made ...

Actors : Roger Davis, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Sixteen years after Ruby Claire's gangster boyfriend was shot and killed by four associates, a series of gruesome murders takes place at the drive-in movie theatre she now owns. Meanwhile, ...

Actors : Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, 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 : 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 : Michael Crawford, Fiona Fullerton, Hywel Bennett, Michael Jayston,
Directors : William Sterling,

Alice (Fiona Fullerton) falls down a rabbit hole and into a magical dream world populated by surreal characters and bewildering adventures. It's a journey of self-discovery for Alice as she...

Actors : Barbara Steele, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, 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 : 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 : 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.

Actors : Hugues Quester, Françoise Pascal, Natalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

Actors : Kathryn Walker, Trini Alvarado, John Lithgow, Jeremy Levy,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

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 : Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet,...

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 : Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Velvet's orphaned niece, Sarah, follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Masé,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...

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 ...