Best Female Lead movies of 1961

Actors : Edith Zetline, Mireille Darc, Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who ...

Actors : Haralambie Boros, Eugenia Balaure, Horia Caciulescu, Emil Botta,
Directors : Ion Popescu-Gopo,

A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery...

Actors : Debbie Reynolds, Juliet Prowse, Andy Griffith, Steve Forrest,
Directors : Vincent Sherman,

In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Thanasis Vengos, Labros Konstadaras, Giorgos Panjas,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly as her is ...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Nobu McCarthy,
Directors : Charles Walters,

Out on a Limb, not out on a Leash.

Actors : Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Jeanne Crain, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Fernando Cerchio,

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Actors : Jean-Claude, Elola, Nadine, Denise,
Directors : Jean Rouch,

The arrival of Nadine, a new student, in the Abidjan Lyceum is the starting point for a discussion about interratial relationships.

Actors : Lola Albright, Clarke Gordon, Joe De Santis, Scott Marlowe,
Directors : Alexander Singer,

An older woman seduces an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Disillusionment sets in when the boy discovers that she is a stripper.

Actors : Paolo Stoppa, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Sandra Milo,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.

Actors : Heinz Erhardt, Fritz Tillmann, Marika Rökk, Cornelia Froboess,
Directors : Ulrich Erfurth,

Actors : Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom, Omar Sharif, Omar El-Hariri,
Directors : Ezzel Dine Zulficar,

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Nawal, a rural girl, is married off to a wealthy aristocrat called Taher Basha (Zaki Rostom). Nawal gets ...

Actors : Tatyana Chanturia, Akakiy Chikvaidze, Gia Chiraqadze, V. Maisuradze,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.

Actors : Moira Shearer, Cyd Charisse, Roland Petit, Zizi Jeanmaire,
Directors : Terence Young,

Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).

Actors : Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Virna Lisi, Hélène Chanel, Little Tony,
Directors : Mario Mattoli,

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized ...

Actors : Paul Löwinger, Peter Kraus, Hans von Borsody, Karin Dor,
Directors : Franz Antel,

Eva is small dancing girl at a revue-show . When she finds out the fact that she inherited the palace hotel in St. Wolfgang at the Wolfgang lake she resigns. Together with her friend Maxie ...

Actors : Faina Ranevskaya, Lyudmila Markeliya, Ariadna Shengelaia, Svetlana Kharitonova,
Directors : Nadezhda Kosheverova,

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her...

Actors : Shivaji Ganesan, M.R. Radha, T.S. Balaiah, Gemini Ganesan,
Directors : A. Bhimsingh,

Three children adopted from their by birth homes and raised by foster parents grow up in Muslim, Christian and Hindu households. But will they ever reunite with their original families?

Actors : Patsy, Jose Cris Soto, Lolita Rodriguez, Luis Gonzales,
Directors : Octavio Silos,

It's G.I.BIDAY" verses "FIGHTING MEKENI" in the most EXPLOSIVE atomic comedy.

Actors : Ling Fu, Kuibin Xia, Jinpeng Chen, Zengyin Cao,

Captain Liu and secretary Han lead a group of red guards retreat from base area and fight back again.