Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Kote Daushvili, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili, Lika Kavjaradze,
Directors : Tengiz Abuladze,

This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...

Actors : Benjamin Smith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison, Laurence Naismith,
Directors : Lionel Jeffries,

A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the ...

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Willy Braque, John Rico, Paul Bisciglia,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

Actors : Monica Nordquist, Björn Granath, Liv Alsterlund, Jonna Liljendahl,
Directors : Göran Graffman,

Madicken never means for anything to go wrong, but somehow it gets that way. Neither this time, when her little sister got a concussion, and it's not her fault that she puts a pea up her own nose.

Actors : Shirley Washington, Trina Parks, Edna Richardson, Bettye Sweet,
Directors : William Witney,

Syreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow.

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 : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Fred Delmare, Heidemarie Wenzel, Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder,
Directors : Heiner Carow,

Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. ...

Actors : Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Chantal Contouri, Henry Silva,
Directors : Rod Hardy,

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.