Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

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 : Kaneta Kimotsuki, Nobuyo Ôyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura,
Directors : Hiroshi Fukutomi,

Through the adventure in summer, a boy experiences meeting and parting with a friend.

Actors : Ulla Jessen, Helle Merete Sørensen, Søren Strømberg, Marianne Tønsberg,
Directors : Finn Henriksen,

Actors : Nils Brandt, Anna Godenius, Gösta Bredefeldt, Toni Regner,
Directors : Jörn Donner,

A woman is raped. She starts to follow and study her rapist.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Marquand, Dominique Labourier, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Nadine Trintignant,

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.

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 : 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 : Ann Stafford, Gene Ross, Camilla Carr, Stephen Tobolowsky,
Directors : S.F. Brownrigg,

A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.

Actors : Jon Finch, Mercedes Sampietro, Carmen Maura, Víctor Valverde,
Directors : Pilar Miró,

A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to ...

Actors : Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Roddy McDowall,

Based on an ancient Scottish folk song, an older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends.

Actors : Diana Kjær, Anne Grete Nissen, Robert Strauss, Ole Søltoft,
Directors : Vernon P. Becker,

Known to her clients as Dagmar, she's a classy Swedish call girl in Copenhagen. After two years, she's ready quit, and we follow her on what she hopes is her last day in the trade. She ...

Actors : John Wood, Tammy Grimes, Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi,

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching ...

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Lara Wendel, Klaus Löwitsch, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,
Directors : Gianni Barcelloni,

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. When she discovers that Viola...

Actors : Clive Merrison, Merdelle Jordine, Dinah Stabb, Riannon Tise,

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

Actors : Fonda Lynn, Jacky Lim, Alan Tam, Lona Chang,
Directors : Karen Yang,

A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.

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 : Mimsy Farmer, Bernard Fresson, Pascal Sellier, Madeleine Robinson,
Directors : Bernard Queysanne,

"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, ...

Actors : Otoniel Serra, Helena Ignez, Paulo Villaça, Guará Rodrigues,
Directors : Rogério Sganzerla,

The saga of some Copacabana dwellers: Sônia Silk, a prostitute also known as Miss Prado Júnior and Peroxide Beast; her gay brother, addicted to smelling his boss's underwear; and Mr. Grillo, the boss.

Actors : Kadir Inanir, Mürüvet Sim, Erol Tas, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Memduh Ün,