Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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

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

Actors : Ely Galleani, Laura Gemser, Venantino Venantini, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

While attempting to interview an elusive gangster, photojournalist Emanuelle notices a man pushing a girl in a wheelchair through the airport. Later, in another country she sees the same ...

Actors : Mária Bajcsay, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras, Mari Töröcsik,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Binnie Barnes,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

Forty year old Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley owns her own Manhattan based real estate agency specializing in upscale Manhattan apartments. She lives with her seventeen year old ...

Actors : José Sacristán, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. ...

Actors : Carter Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Han Jae Ji, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair...

Actors : Rosalind Cash, Glenda Jackson, Michael Murphy, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as "To Sir, With Love," comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael (Glenda Jackson), who tries to reach out and give to her ...

Actors : Giuseppe Pambieri, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Gloria Guida, Gisella Sofio,
Directors : Michele Massimo Tarantini,

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes ...

Actors : Livia Russo, Haris Tryfonas, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Karine Gambier, Esther Moser, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Countess Edna Luise Von Stein keeps her disturbed sister Milly prisoner. Confined to her bed, Milly suffers from a deep sexual trauma resulting from being raped as a child by a muscular ...

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Masami Sôda, Chiyoko Kazama, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Atsushi Mihori,

After her father is exploited and killed by a yakuza gang, a tough woman, fresh out of prison, exacts her revenge over said gang with the help of three girls she met in prison.

Actors : Miroslava Safránková, Petr Svojtka, Radovan Lukavský, Libuse Safránková,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems ...

Actors : Chieko Baishô, Kaori Momoi, Tetsuya Takeda, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

Actors : Perry Bullington, Larry Gelman, Candice Rialson, Jane Kean,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.

Actors : Analía Gadé, Lisa Leonardi, Andrés Resino, Ida Galli,
Directors : Francisco Lara Polop,

A couple, lost in thick fog, take refuge in an old mansion next to a cemetery. Strange things start to happen.

Actors : Stasys Jonynas, Doloresa Kazragyte, Vladas Bagdonas, Regina Arbaciauskaite,
Directors : Arunas Zebriunas,

Lithuania, 1977. Memories of childhood, adolescence, and first love in a small provincial town, shown through complexity of human relations at this periodical film.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ia Ninidze, Maia Kankava, Vakhtang Kikabidze,
Directors : Giorgi Shengelaia,

Pavle, who is a poor cart-driver has two girls, Maro and Tamro. The girls have a dream to take classes at a ballet school, but Pavle cannot afford such a luxury. Vardo, a laundress, decides to help the little girls.

Actors : Serafino Profumo, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni, Rita Manna,
Directors : Sergio Garrone,

During the last days of WW2, several female prisoners arrive at Camp 5 to work as sex slaves for officers and guinea pigs for horrific experiments by Nazi doctors who are trying to find a ...

Actors : Jean Benguigui, Maria Schneider, Miou-Miou, Niels Arestrup,
Directors : Daniel Duval,

Marie (Miou-Miou) is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard (Daniel Duval) before she discovers he is a vicious, sadistic pimp. She is degraded, abused, and beaten ...

Actors : Luce Garcia-Ville, Lucia Bosé, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.