Best Female Lead movies of 1961

Actors : Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Giannis Gionakis, Giannis Malouhos,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when ...

Actors : Sandra Dee, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, John Gavin,
Directors : Harry Keller,

Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This...

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 : 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 ...

Actors : William Mayer, Marietta, Pat Reilly, Lester Brown,

A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women.

Actors : Børge Møller Grimstrup, Ingrid Langballe, Karl Stegger, Hanne Borchsenius,
Directors : Poul Bang,

Comedy about the people in an apartment building.

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.

Actors : Roger Moore, Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Errol John,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

While the Nazi regime subjugates European Nations, in the Belgian Congo, Doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.

Actors : Aleksandr Lupenko, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Yelena Cheremshanova, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here....

Actors : Georges Wilson, Amédée, Alida Valli, Charles Blavette,
Directors : Henri Colpi,

Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. One day she thinks she recognizes him in a tramp walking past her establishment...

Actors : Manos Katrakis, Irene Papas, Nikos Kazis, Maro Kodou,
Directors : Yorgos Tzavellas,

Antigone defies her uncle's decree that her traitorous brother should go unburied and therefore find no rest in the afterlife; however, her actions have tragic consequences.

Actors : Siegfried Lowitz, Karin Dor, Mady Rahl, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

Actors : Doris Weikow, Wolf-Dieter Panse, Marianne Christina Schilling, Harry Hindemith,
Directors : Gottfried Kolditz,

Hated by her jealous and bloodthirsty stepmother, Snow White flees a murder attempt and seeks shelter in the woods with seven kindly dwarfs. Feeling she is safe from harm, Snow White ...

Actors : Carlos Larrañaga, Isabel Garcés, José Marco Davó, Marisol,
Directors : Luis Lucia,

Marisol's parents are dead, and she decides to sell everything she has and go to Madrid with her uncle's Ramon family. Leonor, her aunt, is a very bad woman that doesn't like Marisol and ...

Actors : Robert Hossein, Léa Gray, Renaud Mary, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Christian-Jaque,

Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, ...

Actors : Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom, Omar Sharif, Omar El-Hariri,
Directors : Ezzel Dine Zulficar,

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets ...

Actors : Tatyana Chanturia, Akakiy Chikvaidze, Gia Chiraqadze, V. Maisuradze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.

Actors : Natalya Kuzmina, Nina Drobysheva, Vitaliy Konyaev, Evgeniy Urbanskiy,
Directors : Grigoriy Chukhray,

During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

Actors : Abanish Banerjee, Supriya Choudhury, Satindra Bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A highly critical look at the role of "progressive" art and artists in a changing society.