Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : James Fox, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Sigge Fürst, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Agostino Salvietti, Sophia Loren, Aldo Giuffrè,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange, Anouk Aimée,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow/widower. Each is slow ...

Actors : Lidia Alfonsi, Mark Damon, Michèle Mercier, Boris Karloff,
Directors : Mario Bava,

Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a patriarch who has become a vampire-like monster, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

Actors : Keiji Sada, Setsuko Hara, Mariko Okada, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Actors : Françoise Lugagne, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

Celestine, the chambermaid, has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and ...

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.

Actors : Homer Nish, Yvonne Williams, Tom Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez,
Directors : Kent Mackenzie,

Native Americans in Los Angeles. For 12 hours one Friday night, from late afternoon until dawn, we follow a handful of urban Indians. Yvonne is pregnant, commenting on her life and dreams ...

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova,
Directors : Vera Chytilová,

Two girls try to understand the meaning of the world and their life.

Actors : Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Natalie Wood, Herschel Bernardi,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

The rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Gogi Gegechkori, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images.

Actors : Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren,

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Lucille Ball, Louise Troy,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.