Best Female Lead movies of 1974

Actors : Claude Gauthier, Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost,
Directors : Michel Brault,

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Actors : Faith Domergue, John Ireland, Carole Wells, John Carradine,
Directors : Paul Harrison,

A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), ...

Actors : Ken Metcalfe, Pat Anderson, Jeannie Bell, Stan Shaw,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.

Actors : Jean Martin, Michael Lonsdale, Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot,
Directors : Alain Robbe-Grillet,

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through ...

Actors : Agah Hün, Meral Taygun, Canan Perver, Cihan Ünal,
Directors : Metin Erksan,

A little girl is possessed by a demon.

Actors : Suzanna Hamilton, Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser, Simon West,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise...

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 : Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Actors : Tani Guthrie, John Considine, Jennifer Billingsley, Judith McConnell,
Directors : Terry Becker,

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur, Ranjita Thakur,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Terumi Azuma, Naomi Tani,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

A woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her.

Actors : Emel Sayin, Metin Akpinar, Adile Nasit, Suzan Avci,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Actors : Clyde Ventura, Douglas Dirkson, Sam Gilman, Claudia Jennings,

Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ...

Actors : Lisa Moore, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Bob Kelljan,

Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the ...

Actors : Guido Mannari, Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Giuseppe Patroni Griffi,

Mentally disturbed spinster Lise experiences a series of bizarre encounters in Rome as she searches for someone to murder her.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Guy Delorme, Jacqueline Laurent, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A man is tormented by an ex-lover, Lorna, who posseses a strange power over a women, including the man's daughter.

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Brigitte Borghese, Annie Belle,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he is away for six months. Not one to take advantage of her new "digs", she spends her first night there reading, ...

Actors : Eric Edwards, Jennifer Welles, Mary Mendum, Chris Jordan,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.

Actors : Angela Pleasence, Nancy Nevinson, Lorna Heilbron, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.