Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Eduard Cupák, Iva Janzurová, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová,
Directors : Václav Vorlícek,

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ...

Actors : Colleen Niday, Maryann Rachford, Patty Dunning, Mike Niday,
Directors : Donald W. Thompson,

The story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. She meets and marries a young man and her life seems great, until one moment she ...

Actors : Edward Fox, Delphine Seyrig, Jane Fonda, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and...

Actors : Kamran Usluer, Hülya Koçyigit, Ahmet Mekin, Erol Günaydin,
Directors : Lütfi Akad,

A story of a family of six who are coming from Urfa tries to survive economically in Istanbul.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Gérard Lemaire, Olivier Mathot, Silvia Solar,

After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Renzo Montagnani, Frank Wolff, Senta Berger,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

A bunch of 7 orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. Here, one day they trap a strange ...

Actors : Tani Guthrie, John Considine, Jennifer Billingsley, Judith McConnell,
Directors : Terry Becker,

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

Actors : Péter Fried, Katalin Berek, László Szabó, Gyöngyvér Vigh,
Directors : Márta Mészáros,

Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna, ...

Actors : Catharine Burgess, Erwin Fuller, Jay B. Larson, Vaughn Armstrong,
Directors : Al Adamson,

In the year 2047, sex is forbidden and Big Brother uses robots to keep on eye on everyone. One young girl tries to outwit the government so she can be with the man she loves.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Stany, Venantino Venantini, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took ...

Actors : Fernando Sancho, Alfredo Mayo, Pier Angeli, Eleonora Rossi Drago,
Directors : Sergio Bergonzelli,

The guests of a villa are killed off one by one by their hosts. Incest, decapitations and a cyanide bath feature amongst the other bizarre delights.

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Michel Bardinet, Ornella Muti, Irene Papas,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Two hippies find themselves on the run from the law and soon end up going undercover in a villa owned by a mysterious woman.

Actors : Anke Syring, Ulrike Butz, Nico Wolferstetter, Nadia Henkowa,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

A lesbian vampire's soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants.

Actors : Gerry Sundquist, Gabriele Blum, Stefano D'Amato, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : André Farwagi,

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

Actors : Cheryl Powell, Max Manning, Debbie Osborne, Nancy Ison,
Directors : Robert Anderson,

Cindy, a sweet-young-thing being raised in the suburbs with her half-sister Donna, is shyly undergoing a sexual awakening. Fifteen-year-old Cindy and 17-year-old Donna share the same mother...

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Ellen Barber, Edward Bell, Danielle Brisebois,
Directors : Robert Allen Schnitzer,

This Thriller/horror movie tells the tale of a young girl who is terrified that her insane mother will take her away from her beloved foster mother. One day, the crazed real mother attempts...

Actors : Laura Gemser, Mónica Zanchi, Gabriele Tinti, Vinja Locatelli,
Directors : Giuseppe Vari,

Renouncing her "sinful" past, Emanuelle has entered a convent and has dedicated herself to a life of service. Enter Monika, the free-spirited, free-loving daughter of a wealthy Baron. ...

Actors : Claudine Gabay, Noëlle Chatelet, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu), who has been using her for some time to keep his failing building business afloat.

Actors : Haydée Balza, Hilda Vera, Orlando Urdaneta, Miguel Ángel Landa,
Directors : Román Chalbaud,

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Glenda Jackson, Sandy Dennis, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Michael Lindsay-Hogg,

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.