Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Monica Nordquist, Liv Alsterlund, Björn Granath, 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 : 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 : Susan Hemingway, Herbert Fux, Ana Zanatti, William Berger,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women...

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 : Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Antonio de Cabo, Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A Vietnam veteran heads to an island inhabited by cannibals to save a kidnapped model not only from her kidnappers, but also from the cannibals' lurking Devil god.

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

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

Actors : Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis, Susan George,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

Actors : Jovita Bush, Brandy Woods, Stephanie Fondue, Denise Dillaway,
Directors : Paul Glickler,

A group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.

Actors : Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau, Vincent Gardère, Brigitte Lahaie,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Carlo Cattaneo,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.

Actors : Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley, Patricia Haines,
Directors : Ray Austin,

Christine gets her big chance at modeling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a house in the country for the weekend for a photo ...

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 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 : 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 : Micheline Presle, Claudia Cardinale, Brigitte Bardot, Michael J. Pollard,

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

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 : Petra Cernocká, Vlastimil Zavrel, Jan Hrusínský, Jan Kraus,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the ...

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.

Actors : John Gregson, Susan George, Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old...