Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Nadia El Gendy, Amina Rizk, Samir Sabri, Imad Hamdi,
Directors : Hassan Al Imam,

Actors : Fikret Hakan, Aysen Gruda, Hülya Koçyigit, Gülsah Soydan,
Directors : Orhan Elmas,

Actors : Norma Bengell, Maurice Garrel, Françoise Brion, Jacques Charrier,
Directors : Pierre Kast,

Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

Actors : Neda Arneric, Darko Damevski, Dime Ilijev, Slobodan Dimitrijevic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djurcinov,

A Macedonian girl is trying to swim the British Channel. During the ordeal, she remembers her troubled past.

Actors : Claude Boisson, Olivier Mathot, Monica Swinn, Lina Romay,

A nightclub stripper hooks up with two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy.

Actors : Vítor Mendes, Esther Moser, Martine Stedil, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

When a woman has been found by the police she tells of being kidnapped, drugged and tortured by 'Arminda' (Lina Romay). For many years they have been trying to shut down Arminda's sex ...

Actors : Inger Johanne Byhring, Svend Skjønsberg, Siri Stonex, Peter Jackson,
Directors : Espen Thorstenson,

The eight children Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten Minstemann, live with their parents in a tiny apartment in the city. Grandmother lives in the country side, but ...

Actors : Anton Diffring, Lukas Ammann, Erika Blanc, Percy Hoven,
Directors : Adrian Hoven,

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Actors : Seif Abol Naga, Dawlad Abiad, Ahmed Mazhar, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new ...

Actors : Corinne Brodbeck, Gianni Garko, Olivia Pascal, Frits Hassoldt,
Directors : Franz Josef Gottlieb,

Actors : Tamayo Mitsukawa, Michiyo Bandô, Etsuko Shiomi, Hisako Tanaka,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese...

Actors : Esther Studer, Nanda Van Bergen, Lina Romay, Michael Maien,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Margarita, the only witness of a brutal murder, has temporary amnesia due to shock. She's sent to a psychiatric clinic where a masked man rapes her and kills another woman. She must piece her memory back together before he returns.

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Francis Huster, Catherine Deneuve, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

For assistance to murder Catherine Berger (Catherine Deneuve) is sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. There she gives birth to a son, Simon (Jean-Jaques Briot). After her release Catherine ...

Actors : Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga, Adrian Georgescu,

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

Actors : James Mason, Orazio Orlando, Jennifer O'Neill, Franco Nero,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it ...

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Asami Ogawa, Michio Hino, Tatsuya Hamaguchi,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

At 24, Asima lives with her father and works as an office girl, watching men get promoted and having their pick of the young women in the steno pool. She appears removed from it all, but ...

Actors : Marin Moraru, Maria Ploae, Draga Olteanu Matei, Dumitru Furdui,

The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by...

Actors : Preston Pierce, Georgina Spelvin, Susie Ewing, Rosalind Miles,
Directors : Al Adamson,

A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.

Actors : Alvaro Vitali, Rodolfo Bigotti, Gloria Guida, Sylvain Chamarande,
Directors : Mariano Laurenti,