Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ...

Actors : Vasilis Kolovos, Nikos Kapios, Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas,
Directors : Nikos Koundouros,

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing ...

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Mien Fang, Hua Yueh, Chung-Hsin Huang,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

A young swordswoman named Fang Ying-qi sets out to join a gathering of the martial world's leading warriors under the banner of Lord Xia and the Flying Dragon Clan. Their mission is to defend their country against invading forces.

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 ...

Actors : Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Galanos, Spyros Kalogirou, Sofia Roubou,
Directors : Takis Vougiouklakis,

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 : Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Karen Blanguernon, Barbara Parkins,
Directors : René Clément,

Jill is surprised and angry when her computer-genius boyfriend decides to quit his job in a big company for unclear reasons. But when her children disapear mysteriously and seem to have ...

Actors : Lola Falana, Gene Washington, Millie Perkins, Alex Dreier,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.

Actors : Anne Wiazemsky, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin, Cristiana Tullio-Altan,

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

Actors : Trina Parks, Jeannie Bell, Rosanne Katon, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.

Actors : Lyudmila Gurchenko, Sergei Popov, Nina Ruslanova, Aleksey Zharkov,
Directors : Kira Muratova,

Mikhail helps out Nikolay and Lyuba by giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory.

Actors : Annik Borel, Maria Arnold, Tracy Handfuss, Jacqueline Giroux,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to ...

Actors : Ursula Andress, Giuliano Gemma, Jack Palance, Enzo Bottesini,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

John and Howard work in a company named Safari Express booking tourists on safaris. Their lives are turned upside down when they encounter a beautiful blonde wandering in the jungle who ...

Actors : Makis Demiris, Nonika Galinea, Alekos Alexandrakis, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

The Countess of Corfu is a 1972 film starring Rena Vlahopoulou, Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea. The movie was filmed in Corfu, the birthplace of Rena Vlahopoulou.

Actors : Claudio Obregón, Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Eduardo López Rojas,
Directors : Miguel Littin,

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

Actors : Gerard Cox, Pleuni Touw, Marina de Graaf, Kitty Courbois,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

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 : Vic Morrow, Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : René Clément,

A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

Actors : John McEnery, Valentina Cortese, Claude Jade, Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Directors : Gérard Brach,

Trotz ihrer sozialen Differenzen sind der arme David und der reiche Olivier die besten Freunde. David hat in Oliviers Pariser Appartement die junge Eleanore untergebracht. Als Olivier sie ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Adjani, Françoise Arnoul, Serge Reggiani,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Violette and François are a couple with a child.As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs,François starts to steal.