Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Gloria Guida, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Colette Descombes, Andrés Resino,
Directors : Mario Imperoli,

Monica is young, beautiful and a virgin. She's only 16 years old, and she has already attracted the attention of classmates and seniors. She has friendship with a boy, Leo, but she does not...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Wife is cheating her husband and the husband is cheating her back with her lover's girlfriend. The two cheating couples decide to go to a resort but they unintentionally pick the same one. Hilarity ensues.

Actors : Marie Motlová, Frantisek Husák, Helena Ruzicková, Josef Sebánek,
Directors : Jaroslav Papousek,

The Homolka family celebrates a great occasion: they were finally able to buy a car. They immediately begin to drive for small trips to Hradcany, to the airport, and plan further trips. ...

Actors : Luc Merenda, Martine Brochard, Anne Heywood, Ornella Muti,
Directors : Domenico Paolella,

1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition...

Actors : Felicity Devonshire, Bernard Bresslaw, Bruce Forsyth, Paul Whitsun-Jones,
Directors : Graham Stark,

This early Seventies British comedy takes us through seven short stories based on the Seven Deadly Sins. This film is a montage of different styles, from Spike Milligan's mainly silent "...

Actors : Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Edith Clever,
Directors : Jeanne Moreau,

The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's ...

Actors : Ann Michelle, Alisha Fontaine, Virginia Mayo, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Dennis Kane,

Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers.

Actors : Kathrin Oginski, Rudolf Zehetgruber, Bob Mackay, Gerd Duwner,
Directors : Rudolf Zehetgruber,

Actors : Martin Balsam, Giuliano Gemma, Giancarlo Zanetti, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Actors : Uschi Digard, Miles White, Scott Cameron, Jennie Lynn,
Directors : Edward L. Montoro,

Miss Heaven wishes very much to get into films, but first she must meet Sin through Salacity, that is, have all sorts of sex on a producer's couch.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Sada Thompson, Jack Somack, Kenneth Mars,
Directors : Frank D. Gilroy,

Marriage of a midlife, middle-class, childless couple is in a rut. Sophie has become depressed, frigid and slightly paranoid and Otto is stuck in optimistic denial. Things escalate at their summer cottage, but no one dares call it quits.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Gale Sondergaard, Florence Lake, Miriam Hopkins, David Garfield,
Directors : Donald Wolfe,

An aging actress whose career ended in the '30s lives in her decaying mansion with a retinue of bizarre people, including a personal assistant who keeps an arsenal of weapons.

Actors : Dinos Iliopoulos, Mary Vidali, Rena Vlahopoulou, Danos Lygizos,
Directors : Dimis Dadiras,

Actors : Candice Bergen, Marcia Rodd, Peter Boyle, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.

Actors : Handan Adali, Muazzez Arçay, Ali Ozoguz, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Halit Refig,

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Stefano Satta Flores,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?

Actors : Meral Taygun, Yesim Tan, Sadri Alisik, Zeynep Degirmencioglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Shula Roan, Brett Zeller, Peter Balakoff, Gary Kent,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

Cynthia Kyle enters puberty with a vengeance, murdering her parents as they make love: she's wanted her father to love only her. Eight years later, she's free and wants to marry, but ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.