Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

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 : 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 ...

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 : Guido Celano, Ayfer Feray, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Françoise Brion,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Joaquín Cordero, Aldo Monti, Norma Lazareno, Marga López,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

A governess Julia comes to work in a bourgeois family that live in an afforested property that they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of little girl named Silvia, whose unusual ...

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

Actors : Carol Ohmart, Steve Rowland, Robert Hutton, Jan Brooks,
Directors : John F. Schreyer,

Three teenage criminals break out of juvenile prison and head south to Mexico.

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 : 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 : Monica Vitti, Anthony Booth, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A Sicilian woman, "dishonored" by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Carol Lynley, Mary Astor, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : José Ferrer,

The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most ...