Best Female Lead movies of 1975

Actors : Ana Carro, Brian Cary, Margarita Amuchástegui, Tina Austin,

A so-called "snuff" movie involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Yaphet Kotto, Pam Grier, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to ...

Actors : Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Mann, Mathieu Carrière,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet,...

Actors : Georg Årlin, Lena Nyman, Tage Danielsson, Margaretha Krook,
Directors : Tage Danielsson,

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own ...

Actors : Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

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 : Manmohan, Suchitra Sen, Sanjeev Kumar, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Gulzar,

J.K. is a hotel Manager in a scenic location in India. One day he gallantly comes to the rescue of a drunk daughter, Aarti, of a politician, and chooses to be discrete about it. When she ...

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Carlo Cattaneo,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A pathology med student and a priest team up to investigate a wave of suicides blamed on sun spots and discover a number of them to be actual murders.

Actors : Angelo Infanti, Laura Gemser, Isabelle Marchall, Karin Schubert,
Directors : Bitto Albertini,

In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity ...

Actors : Lynn Redgrave, Lovelady Powell, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Tom Poston,
Directors : Nicholas Sgarro,

Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent....

Actors : Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Ted Cassidy,

A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.

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 : Ni Tien, Norman Fell, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson,
Directors : Charles Bail,

When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find ...

Actors : Helena Rojo, Susana Dosamantes, Claudia Islas, Lucía Méndez,
Directors : Carlos Enrique Taboada,

When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest ...

Actors : Ines Pellegrini, Martine Brochard, Andrés Mejuto, John Richardson,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A maniac killer in a red cape and hood is killing off American tourists on a tour bus by gouging out their eyeballs.

Actors : Fumie Kashiyama, Hideki Shibata, Tarô Shigaki, Mariko Miyagi,

A mermaid falls in love with a human prince, which leads to tragedy.

Actors : Rachel Stefanopoli, Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family.

Actors : Lynn Monteil, Jesús Franco, Catherine Lafferière, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A madman conducts a private inquisition to exorcise demons by torturing women to death.

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Hayley Mills, Ken Hutchison, Simon Ward,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?