Best Female Lead movies of 1974

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Brigitte Borghese, Annie Belle,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he is away for six months. Not one to take advantage of her new "digs", she spends her first night there reading, ...

Actors : Tani Guthrie, Jennifer Billingsley, John Considine, Judith McConnell,
Directors : Terry Becker,

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

Actors : Emel Sayin, Metin Akpinar, Adile Nasit, Suzan Avci,
Directors : Zeki Ökten,

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Terumi Azuma, Naomi Tani,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

A woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur, Ranjita Thakur,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Actors : Alberto Argibay, Dora Baret, Susana Giménez, Carlos Monzón,
Directors : Daniel Tinayre,

A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.

Actors : Pamela Stanford, Howard Vernon, Olivier Mathot, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

The police raid a brothel and a prostitute (Lina Romay) escapes into the countryside. The woman, Celestine, ends up at a rich folks house where she ends up sleeping with two of the servants who then get her a job as a maid.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Stacy Keach, Margot Kidder, Barry Primus,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.

Actors : Manuela Widman, Puppa Armbruster, Wolf Ackva, Sandra Atia,
Directors : Ernst Hofbauer,

A group of young co-eds who are away from home at boarding school share intimate stories about their "first-time" in a revealing session of show and tell. This 1970s late-night classic has ...

Actors : Stacy Keach, Robert Stephens, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Guy Green,

A man's views cause a rift between peasants and the church.

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.

Actors : Meika Seri, Junko Miyashita, Naomi Oka, Aoi Nakajima,
Directors : Tatsumi Kumashiro,

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to ...

Actors : Natalya Gundareva, Aleksandr Fatyushin, Natalya Rudnaya, Leonid Kulagin,
Directors : Andrey Smirnov,

A quiet drama offers an in-depth, realistic look at the attempts of two old-flames who reunite to see if they were meant to be together; the effort teaches them plenty about the true nature...

Actors : Lieux Dressler, John Martino, Claudia Jennings, Paul Carr,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.

Actors : Hélène Surgère, Michel Delahaye, Sonia Saviange, Huguette Forge,
Directors : Paul Vecchiali,

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult ...

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 : Julien Bertheau, Muriel Catalá, Jean Gabin, Sophia Loren,
Directors : André Cayatte,

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Orazio Orlando, Mariangela Melato, Armando Brancia,
Directors : Steno,

Giovanna e' una bella ragazza, ma ha qualche problema con gli uomini: tutti la vogliono solo usare, anche il suo fidanzata Claudio. Trovera' una via d'uscita diventando vigile urbano. Come ...

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Momoe Yamaguchi,
Directors : Katsumi Nishikawa,

"The Izu dancer" describes Young solo to Izu peninsula, and close to an entertainer troupe, in particular with the dancer named Kaoru,but to that brief love is just a featuring lyrical and pale memories by their sad waves farewell.