Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Juraj Visny, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová, Dana Medrická,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, ...

Actors : Dan O'Herlihy, Glynis Johns, Lawrence Dobkin, Richard Davalos,
Directors : Roger Kay,

Jane's car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari. Soon she finds that she has become a virtual prisoner, and none of the strange ...

Actors : Diana Lorys, Gianni Medici, Anita Ekberg, Rosanna Yanni,
Directors : Amando de Ossorio,

A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires.

Actors : Mel Welles, Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy,
Directors : Michael Reeves,

A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local ...

Actors : Kathy Williams, Bruce Kimball, Bob Cresse, Maria Lease,
Directors : Lee Frost,

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Viktor Stanitsyn, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Actors : Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Kei Satô,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Sobieski, Ewa Aulin, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Giulio Questi,

A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and ...

Actors : Howard Vernon, Janine Reynaud, Adrian Hoven, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.

Actors : Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, Maria Rohm, George Sanders,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.

Actors : Ariane Sapriel, Eric Yan, Solange Pradel, Bernard Letrou,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the cause of the Undead.

Actors : Sandra Dee, Nita Talbot, Donald O'Connor, Bobby Darin,
Directors : Richard Thorpe,

Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she ...

Actors : Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Toula Stathopoulou, Petros Hoedas,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Costas Ghoussis, an emigrant recently returned to ...

Actors : Andy Devine, George Kennedy, Doris Day, Peter Graves,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A widow stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle and organizing the local women to demonstrate for women's suffrage.

Actors : Maurice Marsac, Curt Lowens, Barbara Lass, Carl Schell,
Directors : Paolo Heusch,

At a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher.

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Joan Delaney, Ted Bessell, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Howard Morris,

The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of ...