Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Bernadette Lafont, Henri Czarniak, Georges Géret, Claire Maurier,
Directors : Nelly Kaplan,

An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.

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 : Gigi Darlene, Charles E. Mazin, Sam Stewart, Gertrude Cross,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

After hubby Ted goes to work, Ellen putters around the apartment in her nightgown cleaning up. When she takes the trash out, the janitor forces her into his apartment and rapes her. When he...

Actors : Georgi Kulbush, Gennadi Voropayev, Aleksandr Fadeyev, Margarita Koshelyova,

A group of alpinists make a perilous journey up a mountain.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Jean Le Poulain, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva,
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 : Dimitris Papamichael, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Vasilis Avlonitis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : George Skalenakis,

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

Actors : Katerina Yioulaki, Giannis Vogiatzis, Alekos Alexandrakis, Maro Kodou,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

A young Greek man who studies in Italy meets another woman from Greece and marries her. When they return to their country, she pretends to be an Italian because that's the only to gain her ...

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 : Vagelis Seilinos, Faidon Georgitsis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

Flora and Petros are competitors who try to buy cheep land on a Greek island and sell it to foreigner investors . During their stay comic things take place ending to find true love in the local residents.

Actors : Roger Moore, Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Errol John,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

While the Nazi regime subjugates European Nations, in the Belgian Congo, Doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.

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 : Børge Møller Grimstrup, Ingrid Langballe, Karl Stegger, Hanne Borchsenius,
Directors : Poul Bang,

Comedy about the people in an apartment building.

Actors : Mário Benvenutti, Norma Bengell, Odete Lara, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Walter Hugo Khouri,

Two friends take two prostitutes for a night of pleasure. But the night turns out to be frustrating for all involved, as much bitterness is revealed in their conversation and attitudes, ...

Actors : María Cuadra, Giuliano Gemma, Warren Vanders, Ray Saunders,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

The Pinkerton detective agency uncovers a plot to assassinate President James Garfield in 1881 Texas. The film, a "political" Spaghetti, is a very overt mirroring of the JFK Assassination in 1963.

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 : Eslinda Núñez, Eduardo Moure, Raquel Revuelta, Adela Legrá,
Directors : Humberto Solás,

Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930's, and the 1960's.

Actors : Vera Altayskaya, Natalya Sedykh, Aleksei Katyshev, Georgiy Millyar,
Directors : Aleksandr Rou,

One day, Vasya journeys into the forest to meet his beloved Alyonushka, only to have her forcibly whisked away by the wretched Kashchej. To save her, Vasya must face a number of fabulous, archetypal tests.

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.