Best Female Lead movies of 1961

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

Out on a Limb, not out on a Leash.

Actors : Natalya Kuzmina, Nina Drobysheva, Vitaliy Konyaev, Evgeniy Urbanskiy,
Directors : Grigoriy Chukhray,

During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

Actors : Siegfried Lowitz, Karin Dor, Mady Rahl, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

Actors : Carlos Larrañaga, Isabel Garcés, José Marco Davó, Marisol,
Directors : Luis Lucia,

Marisol's parents are dead, and she decides to sell everything she has and go to Madrid with her uncle's Ramon family. Leonor, her aunt, is a very bad woman that doesn't like Marisol and ...

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

Actors : Abanish Banerjee, Supriya Choudhury, Satindra Bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee,
Directors : Ritwik Ghatak,

A highly critical look at the role of "progressive" art and artists in a changing society.

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 : 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 : Robert Hossein, Léa Gray, Renaud Mary, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Christian-Jaque,

Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, ...

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 : Doris Weikow, Wolf-Dieter Panse, Marianne Christina Schilling, Harry Hindemith,
Directors : Gottfried Kolditz,

Hated by her jealous and bloodthirsty stepmother, Snow White flees a murder attempt and seeks shelter in the woods with seven kindly dwarfs. Feeling she is safe from harm, Snow White ...

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 : 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 : Virginia McKenna, Alf Kjellin, Patrick McGoohan, Bill Travers,
Directors : Anthony Asquith,

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives ...

Actors : Rachel Roberts, Annette Whiteley, James Maxwell, Ellen McIntosh,
Directors : Charles Frend,

1961. Drama. Stars oscar nominared. Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell and Annette Whiteley. A key example of British new wave, a great study of the uneasy life of 14 year old Sheila.

Actors : Rodolfo Cristobal, Leonor Vergara, Marietta Miranda, Chiquito,
Directors : Armando De Guzman,

STUPENDOUS. the story of the ALL CONQUERING LOVE of FIVE ORPHANED CHILDREN fighting the MIGHTY TIDE of the world's cruelty and people's tyranny.

Actors : Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock, Jocelyn Britton, John Charlesworth,
Directors : Godfrey Grayson,

A young girl is framed for a robbery, and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

Actors : Lee Montague, Terence Alexander, Allan Cuthbertson, Maxine Audley,
Directors : Robert Tronson,

The police investigate the murder of an officer killed during a jewel robbery.

Actors : Hazel Court, Agnès Laurent, John Bentley, Jack Watling,
Directors : Edward Buzzell,

A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.