Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Karen Black,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Actors : John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Tisa Farrow, Al Cliver, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Actors : Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba, Kimiko Ikegami, Ai Matsubara,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which tries to devour the girls in bizarre ways.

Actors : Peter Lühr, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Actors : Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.

Actors : Micheline Presle, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry a man she doesn't love.

Actors : Paul Fix, Daria Halprin, G.D. Spradlin, Mark Frechette,
Directors : Michelangelo Antonioni,

At Zabriskie Point, United State's lowest point, two perfect strangers meet; an undergraduate dreamer and a young hippie student who start off an unrestrained romance, making love on the dusty terrain.

Actors : Pierre Baillot, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Michèle Moretti,

"Out 1" is a very precise picture of post May 1968 malaise - when Utopian dreams of a new society had crashed and burned, radical terrorism was starting to emerge in unlikely places and a ...

Actors : Penelope Milford, Bruce Dern, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.

Actors : Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver, Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Oliver Clark, Gary Busey,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Stefania Casini, Miguel Bosé, Flavio Bucci, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A newcomer to a prestigious ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amidst a series of grisly murders.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Auberjonois, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ...