Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : Christopher Stone, Lyle Waggoner, Timothy Scott, Mary Charlotte Wilcox,
Directors : Jacques Lacerte,

A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

Actors : Betty Pei Ti, Lin Tung, Lily Ho, Hua Yueh,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

The Four Seasons Brothel is run by a ruthless madam, Lady Chun Yi. Countless young girls have been kidnapped or bought and then sold into a life of servitude, prostitution, and torture at ...

Actors : Galina Artyomova, Yuri Senkevich, Viktoriya Novikova, Valentin Nikulin,
Directors : Vladimir Bychkov,

As the story opens, a busful of tourists are touring Copenhagen. Their guide draws their attention to the beautiful statue at Langelinie. At that, the film's focus moves below the waterline, where several fish tell the story of ...

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, George Rose, Johnny Doran,
Directors : Fielder Cook,

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

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 : Jirí Procházka, Dana Vávrová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Sovák,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

Trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Dakar, Maurice Poli, Melissa Chimenti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals' female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.

Actors : Kadir Inanir, Aziz Basmaci, Ali Sen, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Joe Cortese, Talia Shire, Elizabeth Ashley, 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 : Ana Farra, Ewa Aulin, Lucia Bosé, Espartaco Santoni,
Directors : Jorge Grau,

The ageing Countess discovers that the blood of a maid can temporarily restore her youth and great beauty. She falls in love with a dashing young soldier but is compelled to kill again and ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Zabor, Jean Crubelier, Dominique Sanda,
Directors : Michel Deville,

Childhood friends, dominant Helene and submissive Lucie, are now in their thirties and married. Nostalgic about their youth, they take a bonding car trip to French countryside, while discussing their real and made up sexual experiences.

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 : Herbert Kerr, Casey Donovan, Cheri Caffaro, Duane Tucker,
Directors : Don Schain,

A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.

Actors : James Harder, Sarah Kennedy, Norman Rose, Jill Clayburgh,
Directors : Nelson Lyon,

Victim of an obscene caller becomes obsessed with her fantasy of ?him and attempts to track down IRL.

Actors : Cheri Caffaro, Richard Smedley, Patrick Wright, Laurie Rose,
Directors : Don Schain,

Cheerleaders and models are kidnapped & sold by a white slavery ring. Female agent is sent to rescue them.

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 ...

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 : Sonia Braga, Paulo César Peréio, Nuno Leal Maia, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Neville de Almeida,

Carlos and Solange, childhood sweethearts, marry after a chaste courtship. On their wedding night, Solange refuses to make love to him. First he pleads, then in anger he rapes her. She says...

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Arve Opsahl, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Thorleif Reiss,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Cleaning lady Lilly Hansen finds her employer, managing director Martinsen, with a knife in his back. The police is summoned and Chief Inspector Bakker is put on the case, despite suffering...