Best Female Lead movies of 1979

Actors : François Guétary, Gaëlle Legrand, Pascale Christophe, Marina Pierro,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Three erotic tales: The first film features Marina Pierro as a woman who inspires more than just creativity in the minds and loins of the men of ancient Rome. In the second offering, a ...

Actors : Gilat Ankori, Gali Atari, Anat Atzmon, Smadar Brener,
Directors : Avi Nesher,

Three friends are moving to live together in 70's happy Tel Aviv . By days they are working a boring desk office job and by nights living the city. They also starting their way in ...

Actors : Ana Harpo, Sara Lezana, Paul Naschy, David Rocha,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

The devil, following in the footsteps of Christ, decides to become flesh and take a stroll around Earth to see how humans have progressed, and have a little fun creating havoc and mayhem in the process.

Actors : Hugh Keays-Byrne, Chantal Contouri, Sigrid Thornton, Robert Bruning,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, ...

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Alvaro Vitali, Gloria Guida, Leo Colonna,
Directors : Mariano Laurenti,

Gloria Guida stars in this Italian sex-comedy in which she plays a private nurse who is involved in a family struggle for the estate of the ailing old man she cares for.

Actors : Fernando Arrabal, Tilo Prückner, Carline Seiser, Helmut Griem,
Directors : Peter Fleischmann,

The BRD is haunted by a mysterious, deadly plague. In Hamburg, a group of people head for an odyssey through the country to search for survivors and a rescue.

Actors : Manuchehr Farid, Reza Babak, Susan Taslimi, Siamak Atlassi,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

Tara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. In her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa's...

Actors : Magdalena Montezuma, Tabea Blumenschein, Lutze, Orpha Termin,
Directors : Ulrike Ottinger,

A woman given to us as a "trinkerin" is having a special tour in Berlin, she bought herself a single way ticket, and start drinking everywhere she can....

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 : Emiliya Myrynska, Ivan Stoychev, Slavka Ankova, Borislav Tsankov,
Directors : Rangel Vulchanov,

This is a story of lifetime. A story full of spiritual power biography, behind which stays a whole age in the national development of Bulgaria.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marijke Merckens, Maria Schneider, Peter Faber,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

Young mother of two Eva is send on holiday to France by her husband to relief her stress. There she meets lesbian Liliane who lives in a commune.

Actors : Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Edith Clever,
Directors : Jeanne Moreau,

The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's ...

Actors : György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Udo Kier, Gábor Koncz,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.

Actors : Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali, Pippo Santonastaso, Gloria Guida,
Directors : Nando Cicero,

3 short stories directed by Nando Cicero.

Actors : Dinos Iliopoulos, Mary Vidali, Rena Vlahopoulou, Danos Lygizos,
Directors : Dimis Dadiras,

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Anne Heywood, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman,
Directors : Marvin J. Chomsky,

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and an young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Paul Préboist, Jacques Villeret, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

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 : Iwona Biernacka, Ewa Dalkowska, Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production ...

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.