Best Female Lead movies of 1979

Actors : Jonas Bergström, Catriona MacColl, Christine Böhm, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Jutta Lampe, Konstantin Wecker, Jessica Früh, Gudrun Gabriel,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, ...

Actors : Dana Preu, David Peck, Gene Densmore, J. Smith-Cameron,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

Gal Young 'Un centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic bootlegger. He marries her for her place and her ...

Actors : Kristine DeBell, Wally Ann Wharton, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A bus-load containing three cheer-leading teams from 3 different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

Actors : Rodna Yeshonov, Feliks Sergeyev, Olga Yenzak, Vladimir Kruglov,
Directors : Boris Buneev,

A team of surveyors in Siberia enlist the help of native Evenk guides to solve a string of disappearances on the dreaded mountain Yambuy.

Actors : Anne Jackson, Marilyn Hassett, Jameson Parker, Julie Harris,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

As the horrors beneath the idealized 1950's come about, a successful young woman finds herself having a serious mental breakdown when she returns to New England.

Actors : Paul Savoie, Monique Miller, Julie Vincent, Germain Houde,
Directors : Anne Claire Poirier,

A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Valentina Cortese, Frank Finlay, Anne Heywood,
Directors : Pier Carpi,

Four women make a pact with the Devil. The 13-year-old daughter of one of them has begun to shown signs of a dark nature which causes preoccupation and somewhat regret on her mother.

Actors : Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, David Steinberg, Marilyn Sokol, Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Directors : David Helpern,

A romantic comedy revolving around the on-again, off-again relationship of a young New York couple.

Actors : Olga Ageyeva, Natalya Fateeva, Boris Zajdenberg, Galina Belyaeva,
Directors : Viktor Sadovsky,

The story of a Russian record-breaking female swimmer, Nadya Privalova, who suffered from a stage fright syndrome.

Actors : Isabela Corona, María Rebeca, Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.

Actors : Adele Fátima, Costinha, Meiry Vieira, Denis Derkian,
Directors : Oswaldo de Oliveira,

Erotic spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

Actors : Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini, Guido Lombardi, Olimpia Carlisi,

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò...

Actors : Yuki Nohira, Jun Aki, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yûko Akane,
Directors : Kôyû Ohara,

After being brutally raped, a young woman attempts to commit suicide. A priest talks her out of it and she decides to become a nun. Once inside the convent, she is again a victim of sexual abuse.

Actors : Félix Rotaeta, José Lage, Carmen Maura, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Fernando Colomo,

Rosa, separated and with two children, has to endure the jealousy of her ex-husband, and lives anguished because he continues trying to control her life. Through a friend she knows the ...

Actors : Brigitte Lahaie, Danielle Troger, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay,
Directors : Erwin C. Dietrich,

In a small Swiss girls' boarding school, which is also attended by 6 blond free-spirited Swedish girls, Greta, Inga, Kerstin, Lil, Astrid and Selma, Miss Klein leads a strict regiment. ...

Actors : Inger Johanne Byhring, Anne-Cath Vestly, Jon Eikemo, Eli Skolmen Ryg,
Directors : Espen Thorstenson,

The eight kids Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten has moved with their parents and grandmother from the tiny apartment in the city to a cozy, red house in the forest. ...

Actors : Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali, Gloria Guida, Lorraine De Selle,
Directors : Mariano Laurenti,

There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend ...