Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Victor Izay, Leslie McRay, Tom Pace, Lila Zaborin,
Directors : Ted V. Mikels,

Lorraine and Mark enter the world of witchcraft where Mara foretells the future and helps them remember their past lives. When a series of mysterious murders begin to occur, they turn to Dr. Helsford for advice.

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?

Actors : Senta Berger, Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman,

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a ...

Actors : Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang, Birte Tove, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Joanne Woodward, Tresa Hughes, Sylvia Sidney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor ...

Actors : George 'Buck' Flower, Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Mark Edward Hall,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

In this family classic, two orphans cross the Rocky Mountains on a quest to claim their inheritance, a 400-acre Oregon ranch. On their journey, the pair forms an uncertain alliance with a ...

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

The family who went "back to nature" by homesteading in the Colorado Rockies is threatened by possible federal opposition to their mining claims on the land they moved to.

Actors : Clare Sutcliffe, Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward,
Directors : David Greene,

A 14-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality, discovers that her adored older brother may be guilty of a series of bizarre sex crimes.

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 : Robin John, Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O'Shaughnessy,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

In prehistoric times two brothers (a more or less good one and a more or less bad one) fight each other for the leadership of their tribe.

Actors : Joe Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Talia Shire, Kay Medford,
Directors : Gordon Willis,

Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns ...

Actors : Alberto Dalbés, Howard Vernon, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A young woman visits her gravely ill grandmother at the family estate. On her death bed, the old woman reveals to her granddaughter the family curse: they're all vampires. The young woman ...

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.

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 : Gary Sweet, Jenny Neumann, Nina Landis, Max Phipps,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy ...

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 : Arthur Space, Mary Jackson, John Neilson, Linda Gillen,
Directors : Bud Townsend,

College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vacation at the quiet Red Wolf Inn. Before she can even call her parents to let them know ...