Best Female Lead movies of 1978

Actors : Sirpa Lane, Dakar, Maurice Poli, Melissa Chimenti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A team of geologists attempt to remove a native cannibal population from an island to perform atomic research, but the cannibals' female leader disposes of them one by one by seduction.

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Frank Zuniga,

The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands ...

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Paulo César Peréio, Nuno Leal Maia, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Neville de Almeida,

Carlos and Solange, childhood sweethearts, marry after a chaste courtship. On their wedding night, Solange refuses to make love to him. First he pleads, then in anger he rapes her. She says...

Actors : Gerry Sundquist, Gabriele Blum, Stefano D'Amato, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : André Farwagi,

This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

Actors : Susan Hemingway, Howard Vernon, Karine Gambier, Aida Gouveia,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison.

Actors : Jesper Christensen, Benny Dahl, Lise Lotte Henriksen, Helle Borup,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Actors : Bulut Aras, Ayfer Feray, Erol Tas, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Easily deceived by her charming affectation, a boisterous country man kidnaps an adventurous damsel to a far off land hoping soon she will come to her senses with him. She lacks the courage to reject his straightforward endearment.

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 : Peteris Gaudins, Gunars Cilinskis, Vija Artmane, Ivars Kalnins,
Directors : Janis Streics,

Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.

Actors : Turi Ferro, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York.

Actors : Michèle Simonnet, Pierre Arditi, Nathalie Nell, Alain Fourès,
Directors : Yannick Bellon,

Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she ...

Actors : Beba Bidart, Fernanda Mistral, Luisina Brando, Julio De Grazia,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.

Actors : Yun Ling, Nancy Yen, Ying Bai, Barry Chan,
Directors : Chia Chih Li,

A soldier returning home from battle joins forces with villagers seeking justice after their families are brutally slain.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Despo Diamantidou, Andréas Voutsinas, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, ...

Actors : Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino, Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is ...

Actors : Mircha Carven, Ajita Wilson, Marco Guglielmi, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Claudio Giorgi,

A teenage girl falls in love with a man who works in live sex shows, and who just happens to be having an affair with the girl's stepmother--with her father's knowledge.

Actors : Vladislav Strzhelchik, Oleg Borisov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Vitaliy Melnikov,

Actors : John Frawley, John Derum, Ruth Cracknell, Kerry Walker,
Directors : Jim Sharman,

The Night The Prowler, is about the dark side of suburban middle-class urban culture and family relations. It film brings to the surface some of the darkest recesses of suburban family life...

Actors : Beryl Reid, Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Justin Cartwright,

Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.