Best Female Lead movies of 1963

Actors : Marek Walczewski, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar, Aleksandra Slaska,

While being aboard a transatlantic ship, German woman Liza notices someone who looks like Marta, the former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be the guard.

Actors : Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Vasilis Georgiadis,

The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.

Actors : Nonna Koperzhinskaya, Andrei Sova, Aleksey Kozhevnikov, Nadezhda Rumyantseva,

Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, ...

Actors : Peter Brocco, Lee Grant, Peter Falk, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Labros Konstadaras, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they ...

Actors : Tatyana Yukina, Anatoli Kubatsky, Olga Yukina, Tatyana Barysheva,
Directors : Aleksandr Rou,

Olya steps through the mirror into the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors where Yalo resides. The kingdom, under the rule of King Yagupop LXXVII (reverse of Popugay, meaning parrot) produces ...

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 : William Daniels, Jane Connell, Richard Hamilton, James Frawley,
Directors : Frank Perry,

Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.

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.

Actors : Artur Mlodnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Barbara Krafftówna,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has ...

Actors : David Janssen, Debbie Reynolds, Eileen Heckart, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Gower Champion,

Comic story of a Broadway musical star who arrives at her country home and finds six runaway children living on her property. When she gains custody of the kids, her life changes rapidly.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Tamio Kawaji, Reiko Sassamori, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Sandra Dee, Margaret Lindsay, Macdonald Carey,
Directors : Harry Keller,

When Mrs. Call's heart condition acts up, Tammy tags along in the trip to Los Angeles when the old lady is getting her surgery. Since there are no guest quarters in the hospital, Tammy gets...

Actors : Carlos López Moctezuma, Rita Macedo, Rosita Arenas, Abel Salazar,
Directors : Rafael Baledón,

A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.

Actors : Shirley Jones, Red Buttons, Carolyn Jones, Gig Young,
Directors : George Sidney,

The SOS from the boys upstairs bedroom is made by a Navy Signal Lamp, which was a gift from Uncle Cy.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : René Clément,

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases ...

Actors : Mahmoud Moursy, Faten Hamama, Saleh Selim, Shouweikar,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Elbab Elmaftouh, Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and thier struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.

Actors : Gisia Paradís, Isabel Garcés, José Marco Davó, Marisol,
Directors : Fernando Palacios,

Marisol and Mariluz are twin sisters. They live separated, Mariluz with their uncle in Rio de Janeiro, and Marisol with their mother, in Madrid. Marisol's mother has desperately tried to ...

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Alekos Alexandrakis, Kostas Voutsas, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Mary, a rich and spoiled young girl, makes a bet with her father that she will make a well known sculptor fall in love with her. She pretends to be one of the daughters of a poor postman, ...

Actors : Thommy Berggren, Ulla Akselson, Inger Taube, Lars Passgård,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

Following his manifesto for a new Swedish cinema, director Widerberg started his career with this realist tale of young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.