Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

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 : 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 : Cedomir Radovic, Milja Vujanovic, Bogdan Tirnanic, Marko Nikolic,
Directors : Zelimir Zilnik,

Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of ...

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 : Dan Vadis, Giuliano Gemma, Ángel del Pozo, José Calvo,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

Captured Confederate raider Gary Diamond agrees to work with the Yankees to prevent any further bloodshed by warning a Confederate regiment against attacking heavily defended Yankee Fort Yuma.

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 : Josephine Passer, Peter Steen, Dirch Passer, Lene Tiemroth,
Directors : Finn Henriksen,

A Danish count invites his showgirl girlfriend to meet his family at their estate in the countryside. Her platonic friend, who at times looks after her baby, ends up employed as butler there.

Actors : Rita Pavone, Aroldo Tieri, Terence Hill, Francis Blanche,
Directors : Steno,

Actors : Nikos Rizos, Andreas Barkoulis, Labros Konstadaras, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

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 : Yukiko Kuwahara, Yukie Kagawa, Kô Nishimura, Seizaburô Kawazu,
Directors : Nobuo Nakagawa,

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

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

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 : Merete Arnstrøm, Mogens Brandt, Vivi Bach, Susanne Bruun-Koppel,
Directors : Carl Ottosen,

The story is about the people in - and around - the cosy café Trinidad in the Copenhagen canal street, Nyhavn ("New Harbour"). The owner, Joakim Nielsen, runs the place as a second home for...

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.