Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Marie Dubois, Mathieu Carrière, Maurice Garrel, Hélène Vallier,
Directors : Jacques Doniol-Valcroze,

Two platonic lovers in the sunny landscapes of south France.

Actors : Nanda, Shashi Kapoor, Shammi, Agha,
Directors : Suraj Prakash,

Raja (Shashi Kapoor), a Kashmiri boatman and Rita (Nanda), a beautiful heiress from the city, fall in love.

Actors : Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard, Brian Donlevy, Johnny Tillotson,
Directors : Joseph Cates,

Off the coast of Florida, a nearly-deserted island is rumored to have the fountain of youth. A boatload of teenage kids are headed there for a scavenger hunt. Wellington, the island's ...

Actors : Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Jeanne Crain, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Fernando Cerchio,

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Actors : Ljuba Tadic, Bojan Stupica, Kapitalina Eric, Olivera Markovic,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.

Actors : Krystyna Sienkiewicz, Andrzej Lapicki, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Kalina Jedrusik,
Directors : Jan Batory,

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is an other love." Then she becomes a ...

Actors : Liselotte Pulver, Vivi Bach, Harald Leipnitz, Hannelore Elsner,
Directors : Kurt Hoffmann,

Actors : Bob Crane, Elke Sommer, Joey Forman, Werner Klemperer,
Directors : George Marshall,

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Actors : Enrique Ávila, Roberto Camardiel, Rafael Alonso, Marisol,
Directors : Luis Lucia,

Marisol is a young girl with a vivid imagination and a heart of gold who witnesses a picture robbery in a museum...

Actors : Masako Araki, Junpei Arishima, Junko Fuji, Daisuke Awaji,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Oryu (Fuji Junko) is invited to stay with a local yakuza boss of a silk farming town. When a rival gang murders the boss Oryu takes it upon herself to protect his business and family.

Actors : Carmen Amaya, Daniel Martín, Sara Lezana, Antonio Gades,
Directors : Francisco Rovira Beleta,

A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.

Actors : Mahmoud Moursy, Faten Hamama, Saleh Selim, Shouweikar,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Elbab Elmaftouh, Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and thier struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.

Actors : Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hilmar Thate,
Directors : Konrad Wolf,

After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village. It is 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; his ...

Actors : Ritva Vepsä, Seija Tyni, Sven-Bertil Taube, Jörn Donner,
Directors : Jörn Donner,

Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out ...

Actors : Skip Ward, Carol Cole, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

Remake of 1941's "Ladies in Retirement" has Stella Stevens playing companion to wealthy, loony widow and she soon brings her brother and sister to live with them after they are released ...

Actors : Carlos Estrada, Aurora Bautista, Laly Soldevila, Irene Gutiérrez Caba,
Directors : Miguel Picazo,

The film is a picture of Tula a woman being single and repressed who believes that she has to help her brother-in-law Ramiro forgetting that she is a woman.

Actors : Giorgi Shengelaia, Akaki Khorava, Sofiko Chiaureli, Vaso Godziashvili,
Directors : Mikheil Chiaureli,

Determined to marry pretty Tasia, prince Avtandil abducts her from her wedding upon the pretext that she will be his maid. To save Tasia, his bridegroom's friends negotiate with the oppressor prince, but his is not enough.

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Mikhail Zharov, Tatyana Doronina, Natalya Tenyakova,
Directors : Georgi Natanson,

The film revolves around two sisters, who were orphaned during the World War II and then found and brought up by their uncle. The older sister Nadya wants to be an actor, but she feels responsible for her younger sister Lida.

Actors : Robert Hossein, O.E. Hasse, Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, VICE AND VIRTURE is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, as envisioned by one of cinema's most provocative filmmakers Roger Vadim.

Actors : Viva, Louis Waldon,
Directors : Andy Warhol,

Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.