Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa, Takahiro Tamura, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Actors : Andreas Barkoulis, Nora Valsami, Giannis Mihalopoulos, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

Actors : Cher, Steve Whittaker, Tom Nolan, Barbara London,
Directors : Alessio de Paola,

Addendum to summary: Chastity is Bipolar manic who was sexually abused as a child.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Riva, Sandra Milo,
Directors : Antonio Pietrangeli,

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

Actors : Vivian Weiss, Li Paelz, Rolf Eden, Ingrid Steeger,

A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe ...

Actors : Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, Anne Linden, Veronica Radburn,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritence they are all entitled to.

Actors : Folco Lulli, Margarita Lozano, Sidonia Manolache, Paul Misai,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Fritz Weaver, Katherine Crawford, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Guy Green,

The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.

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 : Jeanne Moreau, Pascale de Boysson, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Deschamps,
Directors : Peter Brook,

A wealthy and bored woman is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness. She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in love with him.

Actors : Barry Morse, Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ...

Actors : Yvonne Romain, Ann-Margret, Robert Coote, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : George Sidney,

An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire, James Olson,
Directors : Alan Gibson,

Stefanie Powers stars as an American girl who goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer.

Actors : Bernard Blier, André Pousse, Marlène Jobert, Françoise Rosay,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Actors : Gladys Henson, Dudley Sutton, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's relationship with his best friend.

Actors : Frank Bolger, Jackie Moran, Adele Rein, Babette Bardot,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to...

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Angelos Antonopoulos, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Pantelis Zervos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Mirto, a progressive teacher, is assigned to a backward village, where her ideas find opposition from the parents. She falls in love with Stephanos, the mayor's son, whom she marries. As ...

Actors : Adrienne Posta, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Movie version of the BBC TV play that first addresses some of the major social issues of the day. A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Claire Ufland, Kim Novak, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Terence Young,

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji, Akiko Wada,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.