Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Claude Gauthier, Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost,
Directors : Michel Brault,

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Actors : Norman Alden, Kevin McCarthy, Raquel Welch, Helena Kallianiotes,
Directors : Jerrold Freedman,

Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Actors : Paul Muller, Roger Darton, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.

Actors : Rialda Kadric, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Vladimir Petrovic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra,
Directors : Zoran Calic,

Two teenagers - boy from the rural and girl from the urban family - fall in love. Problems arise when the girl gets pregnant. This movie was the first in one of the most popular series in ...

Actors : Angelo Infanti, Laura Gemser, Isabelle Marchall, Karin Schubert,
Directors : Bitto Albertini,

In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity ...

Actors : Chloe Franks, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Actors : Vanessa Brown, Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Peggy Feury,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Hiram Keller, Venantino Venantini, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

Actors : Edward Fox, Michael Callan, Wendy Hiller, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

Actors : Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Myriam Boyer, Miou-Miou,
Directors : Alain Tanner,

The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" ...

Actors : Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Laurie Main, Ayn Ruymen, John Ventantonio, Lucille Benson,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.

Actors : Kerem Yilmazer, Nazan Adali, Hülya Koçyigit, Ali Sen,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. ...

Actors : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...

Actors : Manmohan, Suchitra Sen, Sanjeev Kumar, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Gulzar,

J.K. is a hotel Manager in a scenic location in India. One day he gallantly comes to the rescue of a drunk daughter, Aarti, of a politician, and chooses to be discrete about it. When she ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Katharine Hepburn, Irene Papas, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.

Actors : Georg Årlin, Lena Nyman, Tage Danielsson, Margaretha Krook,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own ...

Actors : Gyöngyi Bürös, Mari Csomós, Erzsi Cserhalmi, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Actors : Louis Nye, Ronny Cox, Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray,

Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Now most of the townspeople, particularly on the PTA board, think that she is a little too liberal and liberated for ...