Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

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 : 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 : Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer, Alberto Bonucci, Annette Stroyberg,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

A lonely and bitter young heiress - jealous of her cousin's engagement to another woman - becomes dangerously obsessed with legends surrounding a vampire ancestor, who supposedly murdered the young brides of the man she loved.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Roger Pigaut, 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 : Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Jûkichi Uno, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Klaus Kinski, Robert Hoffmann, Janet Leigh,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro...

Actors : Peter Brocco, Lee Grant, Peter Falk, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

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 : Elizabeth Hartman, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In June 1933, eight young women, who are close friends and members of the upper-class group at South Tower College, to graduate and start their adult lives. The film documents the years ...

Actors : Norma Lazareno, Maricruz Olivier, Alicia Bonet, Marga López,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

Girls that were punished to sat at a boarding school during Spring Break have no idea the school is haunted by the restless spirit of a former student seeking revenge.

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 : 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 : Dorothy McGowan, Sami Frey, Grayson Hall, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : William Klein,

A model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.

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 : 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 : Andreas Barkoulis, Mary Lalopoulou, Jenny Karezi, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

In order to help her father who has financial problems, Tzeni agrees to a fake marriage with his political rival.

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

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

Actors : Lili Papayanni, Jenny Karezi, Alekos Alexandrakis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Andreas meets Mika in Italy and they quickly fall in love and get married. However, upon their return to Greece, Andreas meets Mika's eccentric family and sees that living with them will ...

Actors : Caroline Cartier, Bernard Musson, Olivier Rollin, Maurice Lemaître,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Wealthy and decadent industrialist Georges Radamante rules over a strange secret suicide cult and wants to achieve immortality by figuring out a way to share the biochemistry of a young ...

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, ...