Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : Giuliano Gemma, Eli Wallach, Tomas Milian, Manuel de Blas,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

In the 19th century, when the Japanese Emperor sends a gift pony to the US President it gets stolen and ransomed by Indians but Sheriff Gideon aided by an inept Japanese servant offers to deliver the ransom.

Actors : Betül Asçioglu, Fikret Hakan, Kadir Inanir, Levent Inanir,
Directors : Serif Gören,

They were two brothers. Now they are enemies for each others. A bridge which connects people, separates them.

Actors : Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

The intertwined lives of 2 women in 1970's France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain...

Actors : Margaretta Scott, Stefanie Powers, 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 : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Nagy, Sándor Horváth, Marianna Moór,

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adopting parents.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, William Gray Espy, Aldo Ray, May Britt,
Directors : Herb Freed,

May Britt plays a seemingly innocent farm girl convinced that her slovenly uncle (Cameron Mitchell) is the man responsible for the bloody scissor-murders of several local girls.

Actors : Judy Huxtable, Christopher Sandford, Barry Evans, Susan George,
Directors : Pete Walker,

After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands...

Actors : Margaret Hamilton, Milton Berle, Herschel Bernardi, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Hal Sutherland,

During a twister, Dorothy is hit on the head by a gate and once again whisked away to the land of Oz. But this time, on her way to the Emerald City, she discovers a terrible plot by the ...

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Anouska Hempel, Percy Herbert, Thomas Baptiste, David Warbeck,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Story of a slave revolt on a 19th-century Caribbean island.

Actors : Howard Vernon, Anita Ekberg, Rosalba Neri, Evelyne Kraft,
Directors : Ferdinando Merighi,

A prostitute in a French brothel is assassinated, the prime suspect is one of her regular clients, soon afterwards the witnesses that testified against the suspect are killed by an strange individual.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Carrie Snodgress, Ruth Cox, Ray Milland,

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ...

Actors : Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki, Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai,
Directors : István Szabó,

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.

Actors : György Cserhalmi, Anikó Nagy, Erzsi Pártos, Antal Farkas,
Directors : Marcell Jankovics,

A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young farmer through love, magic and death.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjita Thakur, Dinesh 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 : 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 : Dietmar Kracht, Steven Adamczewski, Luzi Kryn,
Directors : Rosa von Praunheim,

It's love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim's outrageous genre, social satire.

Actors : Ediz Hun, Sezer Inanoglu, Hülya Koçyigit, Nevzat Okçugil,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

Cyprus War

Actors : François Guétary, Gaëlle Legrand, Pascale Christophe, Marina Pierro,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Three erotic tales: The first film features Marina Pierro as a woman who inspires more than just creativity in the minds and loins of the men of ancient Rome. In the second offering, a ...