Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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

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

Actors : Geraldine Page, Glenda Jackson, Sandy Dennis, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Michael Lindsay-Hogg,

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.

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 : 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 : Marc Ariche, Betty Mars, Pierre Oudrey, Nathalie Guérin,
Directors : Guy Casaril,

A female artist is having an affair with a married man. He won't leave his wife, so she decides to meet her. However, she ends up liking and seducing the introvert wife, so they enter a ménage à trois. The wife explores her lesbian side.

Actors : Jay Edwards, Dixie Donovan, Loray White, Johnny Rocco,
Directors : Peter Perry Jr.,

The story of egyptian princess Cleopatra's amorous adventures.

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 : Susanne Severeid, Sherry Hardin, Rae Sperling, Marcy Albrecht,
Directors : Patrick Wright,

Four high school girls at Hollywood High are looking for fun. Together they frolic on the beach and cavort with their guys. In their search for a little privacy they meet up with a retired ...

Actors : Lucia Popp, John van Kesteren, Hermann Prey, Michael Habeck,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Ponnelle,

Actors : Natalya Fateeva, Olga Ageyeva, 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 : 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 : Claudine Gabay, Noëlle Chatelet, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu), who has been using her for some time to keep his failing building business afloat.

Actors : Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, Neal Smith,
Directors : Joe Gannon,

Actors : Ludmila Berlinskaya, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Igor Sakharov, Sergey Obrazov,
Directors : Valentin Selivanov,

Three teens are selected for a space flight on the spacecraft Astra. The children are subjected to crises and breakdowns, they have to deal with all sort of problems in outer space.

Actors : Matti Turunen, Eikka Lehtonen, Irma Huntus, Leena Suomu,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

In a small Finnish Lapland community, Milka, an innocent 14-year-old girl lives with her mother, misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. For haymaking, they employ a ...

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.

Actors : Haydée Balza, Hilda Vera, Orlando Urdaneta, Miguel Ángel Landa,
Directors : Román Chalbaud,

A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon...

Actors : Eric Edwards, Mary Mendum, Jennifer Jordan, Jamie Gillis,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

A seductive woman, who left her small fishing town long ago after being caught with another woman's husband, returns to shake up the place by seducing everyone, including the woman and her girlfriends.

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 : 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...