Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : Monica Nordquist, Björn Granath, Liv Alsterlund, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Neriman Köksal, Ediz Hun, Sadettin Erbil, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, Jonathan Kramer,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

This film is a satire of the women's liberation movement, staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a ...

Actors : Katie Johnson, Wallace Earl Laven, Jill Lansing, Stuart Taylor,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug ...

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Kei Yamamoto, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

Actors : Víctor Alcázar, Judy Geeson, Aurora Bautista, Esperanza Roy,
Directors : Eugenio Martín,

Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Charles Vanel, Sylvia Kristel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ...

Actors : Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Yelena Samarina, Lou Castel,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Václav Voska, Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes,
Directors : Juraj Herz,

In this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.

Actors : Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Actors : Fabiola Falcón, Mariano Vidal Molina, Maritza Olivares, Paul Naschy,
Directors : Carlos Aured,

A man whose ancestors executed a witch is turned into a werewolf by modern-day descendants of the executed witch.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Laura Gemser, Karin Schubert, Don Powell,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her ...

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 : Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Puterflam, Eléonore Klarwein,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School ...

Actors : Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux, Christopher Plummer, Karen Black,
Directors : Harvey Hart,

A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.