Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Flora Carabella, Paolo Stoppa, Jodie Foster, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Sergio Citti,

Una domenica estiva in uno stabilimento balneare al Lido di Ostia (Roma). Una fauna umana variegata e tante storie che si intrecciano. Una squadra femmminile di pallacanestro ; due militari...

Actors : Angelica Ippolito, Gian Maria Volontè, Mario Adorf, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Journey into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.

Actors : Yoshiaki Makita, Kaizo Kamoda, Naho Kimura, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

Actors : Susan Hemingway, Howard Vernon, Karine Gambier, Aida Gouveia,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison.

Actors : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : Jonas Bergström, Catriona MacColl, Christine Böhm, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Terumi Azuma, Naomi Tani,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

A woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her.

Actors : Marjoe Gortner, Merrie Lynn Ross, Jesse Vint, Lynda Carter,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.

Actors : Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Michael Learned, Diane Lane,
Directors : Gus Trikonis,

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Robert Rivard, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard,
Directors : Gilles Carle,

A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her city home to live in the countryside with her young son. There she meets a litigious farmer who fights against the banks...

Actors : Tara Strohmeier, Miles Watkins, Jocelyn Jones, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

Explosive drama and action when two sexy girls go on a bank robbing binge.

Actors : Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Doris Thomas, Karin Field,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A group of nun's become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Humbert Balsan, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother's death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Fei Ai, Ping Chen, Shen Chan,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Two clans compete for dominance over the martial arts world in this classic of violent swordplay and political intrigue. A complex tale of deception and double crosses. Killer Clans leaves ...

Actors : Betty Vergès, Claus Richt, Wolf Goldan, Olivia Pascal,
Directors : Sigi Rothemund,

In this sex comedy, a good-looking German girl goes on vacation in Greece, and a large number of people try to get her to go to bed with them. With a light, teasing manner, she turns all of...

Actors : Emel Sayin, Metin Akpinar, Adile Nasit, Suzan Avci,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Actors : Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce,
Directors : Peter Frazer-Jones,

Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel - whatever the cost. However, a shady businessman mistakes George for a hit man.

Actors : Forrest Lorne, Ray Wray, Laurel Canyon, Candy Sweet,
Directors : Ray Williams,

Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult ...

Actors : Dixie Peabody, Clyde Ventura, Joanne Moore Jordan, Terry Mace,
Directors : Barbara Peeters,

Tautly directed biker film, told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.

Actors : Hope Stansbury, Noel Collins, Joan Ogden, Jackie Skarvellis,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

The daughter in a family of werewolves decides to put an end to the family curse.