Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Michael Craze, Michael Petrovitch, Frank Finlay, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Fred Burnley,

This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper there and they quickly become lovers. ...

Actors : Gerard Cox, Pleuni Touw, Marina de Graaf, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

Actors : Elma Bulla, Ildikó Piros, Margit Dajka, Éva Dombrádi,
Directors : Károly Makk,

The story of two elderly sisters who exchange letters, and through brief flashbacks we see glimpses of their younger years.

Actors : Eleni Erimou, Petros Fyssoun, Alkis Yannakas, Jenny Karezi,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Manto Mavrogenous, several years after the revolution and active action, remembers her life. Despite the objections of her mother, gave her dowry to financially support the revolution. ...

Actors : Ursula Andress, Giuliano Gemma, Enzo Bottesini, Jack Palance,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

John and Howard work in a company named Safari Express booking tourists on safaris. Their lives are turned upside down when they encounter a beautiful blonde wandering in the jungle who ...

Actors : Stavros Kalaroglou, Kostas Rigopoulos, Smaro Veaki, Anna Vagena,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

Anna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.

Actors : Juan Luis Galiardo, Fernando Rey, Adriano Celentano, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist.

Actors : Gila Almagor, Michal Bat-Adam, Shaike Ophir, Joseph Shiloach,
Directors : Moshé Mizrahi,

A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.

Actors : Lola Falana, Gene Washington, Millie Perkins, Alex Dreier,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.

Actors : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Mohsen Sohrabi, Jaleh Sam, Ken Takakura, Yadolla Shirandami,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

Golgo 13 is assigned to murder a man named Boss Goa.

Actors : Diana Dors, Peder Kinberg, Cia Löwgren, Solveig Andersson,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ring leader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam's shows always feature her bodacious nieces...

Actors : Claudio Obregón, Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Eduardo López Rojas,
Directors : Miguel Littin,

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : René Clément,

A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

Actors : Jack Bond, Liz Danciger, Sheila Allen, Jane Arden,
Directors : Jane Arden,

Jane Arden's surreal take on a group of females in a therapy session.

Actors : Norman Parker, Jerry Allgor, Shelby Leverington, Aaron Phillips,
Directors : Ken Friedman,

A young woman learns that one of her ancestors had been burned at the stake as a witch. She decides to revenge her on the descendants of the people who had her killed.

Actors : Binota Roy, Madhabi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Ranjit Mallick,
Directors : Mrinal Sen,

An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.

Actors : Trina Parks, Jeannie Bell, Jayne Kennedy, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.

Actors : Sarah Kennedy, Mark Thomas, Lynne Guthrie, Laurie Rose,
Directors : Stephanie Rothman,

Honey comes to Los Angeles to seek her new lifestyle, but is flat broke. She gets a place to stay with Denise and Jill. Honey has hard luck finding a job, but eventually gets hired by a ...

Actors : Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ...