Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Kyôko Kishida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Actors : Floretta Zana, Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Katsaros, Rena's rich father insists in marrying her with Dinos, son of a ship owner. Rena escapes, dresses as a boy and introduces herself as Pipis. Pipis meets Lefteris who helps him. ...

Actors : Jan Schmid, Julius Albert, Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak,
Directors : Vera Chytilová,

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.

Actors : Vagelis Voulgaridis, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dinos Iliopoulos, Alekos Alexandrakis,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

An expert card game hustler, a beautiful woman, and their smooth friend, try to "con" wealthy tourists.

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Alekos Alexandrakis, Giorgos Panjas, Maro Kodou,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Mary lends her car to her friend Lili (wife of jealous Mihalis) who wants it for meeting her new boyfriend. But Lili has an accident and returns the car in a very bad condition. To cover up...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Inna Churikova, Tatyana Stepanova, Leonid Kuravlyov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck...

Actors : Ajda Pekkan, Sadri Alisik, Filiz Akin, Efgan Efekan,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Actors : Faik Coskun, Esen Püsküllü, Sadri Alisik, Salih Güney,
Directors : Mehmet Dinler,

This movie is about two lovers of a poor neighbourhood. Hüsnü and Müjgan love each other and they are on the brink of getting married. However, the son of Müjgan's boss sees her and ...

Actors : Hans Korte, Günter Mack, Eva Maria Meineke, Alexandra Kluge,
Directors : Alexander Kluge,

The film tells the story of Anita G., a young East German migrant to West Germany and her struggle to adjust to her new life.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Iya Savvina, Panteleymon Krymov, Nina Alisova,
Directors : Iosif Kheifits,

In the Nineteenth Century, at the seaside resort of Yalta, the upper class Dimitri Gurov from Moscow meets Anna Sergeyovna walking with her little dog. Both have unhappy marriages: Dimitri ...

Actors : Tatyana Samoylova, Yuriy Yakovlev, Nikolai Gritsenko, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Aleksandr Zarkhi,

Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sophia Loren, Gig Young, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

Lisa Macklin, an Italian woman, has a fight with her American husband Robert in a Paris night club. He leaves the next day for a business trip and Lisa says she does not want to see him ...

Actors : Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Carol Christensen,
Directors : Edward Bernds,

The Stooges must battle alien spies to safeguard a goofy scientist's revolutionary new vehicle.

Actors : Patrick O'Neal, Robert Morse, Doris Day, Terry-Thomas,
Directors : Hy Averback,

During a blackout, a New York executive crosses paths with a Broadway actress and her husband.

Actors : Roger Van Hool, Michel Piccoli, Amidou, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Alain Cavalier,

Lucile, 25, is the beautiful mistress of Charles, a rich, good-hearted businessman. Being a kept woman suits her as she refuses to work. She is grateful to Charles for that but she does not...

Actors : Rodney Bedell, Betty Connell, Nancy Lee Noble, Christie Wagner,
Directors : Herschell Gordon Lewis,

An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.

Actors : Mikhail Mikhajlov, Vasil Vachev, Rade Markovic, Nevena Kokanova,
Directors : Vulo Radev,

A wife of a Bulgarian Army officer falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World war I.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Terence Young,

United Nations narcotics agents attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor.

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 : Eleni Prokopiou, Vangelis Ioannidis, Kleopatra Rota, Takis Emmanuel,
Directors : Nikos Koundouros,

During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of the woman will yield under the omnipotence of the carnal instinct.