Best Female Lead movies of 1961

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

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

Out on a Limb, not out on a Leash.

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.

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 : 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 : 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?