Best Female Lead movies of 1966

Actors : Alekos Tzanetakos, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Stavros Xenidis, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Kostas Karagiannis,

Rena Varlamos, a brilliant and capacious woman, takes up the election campaign of her fiance, Pericles Arapis, who wants to be a MP. She tries to land him in reality, but he does not. ...

Actors : Josephine Passer, Peter Steen, Dirch Passer, Lene Tiemroth,
Directors : Finn Henriksen,

A Danish count invites his showgirl girlfriend to meet his family at their estate in the countryside. Her platonic friend, who at times looks after her baby, ends up employed as butler there.

Actors : Billy M. Greene, Dorothy Keller, Jayne Mansfield, Fabian Dean,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

The fall of a blonde, Mansfield, from innocence to prostitution. Mansfield died before the movie was completed.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Gastone Moschin, Enrico Maria Salerno,

Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina"chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving ...

Actors : Françoise Vatel, Claude Melki, Colette Descombes, Michel Gonzalès,
Directors : Luc Moullet,

A twenty minute documentary about the two smallest French villages. Then, Paris, 1960s. Two girls named Brigitte from the two villages share an apartment and study at the Sorbonne.

Actors : Melpo Zarokosta, Mary Aroni, Giannis Vogiatzis, Labros Konstadaras,
Directors : Dimitris Nikolaidis,

Anna thinks up a clever plan to bring her husband Manos on track. Having discovered that he is cheating on her, after only two years of marriage, she pretends to be crazy and decides to pay him back in the same coin.

Actors : Irina Petrescu, Dan Nutu, Graziela Albini, Eugenia Popovici,
Directors : Lucian Pintilie,

Actors : Eva Dahlbeck, Michel Piccoli, Marie-France Mignal, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

Actors : Patty Duke, Victor Borge, Jack Gilford, Tallulah Bankhead,
Directors : Jules Bass,

An anthology of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen: "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Thumbelina" and "The Garden of Paradise."

Actors : Irina Petrescu, László Mensáros, Éva Ruttkai, Lajos Básti,
Directors : Márton Keleti,

Actors : Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca, Benedicta Mendoza,
Directors : Jorge Sanjinés,

While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.

Actors : Antonio Ferrandis, Marianne Benet, Teresa Gimpera, Marcos Martí,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only ...

Actors : Helena Ignez, Mário Lago, Fauzi Arap, Paulo José,
Directors : Joaquim Pedro de Andrade,

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a ...

Actors : Krystyna Sienkiewicz, Andrzej Lapicki, Kalina Jedrusik, Wienczyslaw Glinski,
Directors : Jan Batory,

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is an other love." Then she becomes a ...

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Pyotr Artemyev, Lina Braknyte, Valentin Nikulin,

Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.

Actors : Linda Gale, Robin Nolan, Diane Conti, Eileen Dietz,
Directors : Sande N. Johnsen,

A no-good Manhattan girl moves in on a Brooklyn gang. Using her obvious charms she gets the leader killed in a fight over her and then takes up with the victor and new head man. Then she ...

Actors : David Blair, Desmond Doyle, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn,
Directors : Paul Czinner,

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

Actors : Phyllis Diller, Jack E. Leonard, Brian Donlevy, Johnny Tillotson,
Directors : Joseph Cates,

Off the coast of Florida, a nearly-deserted island is rumored to have the fountain of youth. A boatload of teenage kids are headed there for a scavenger hunt. Wellington, the island's ...

Actors : Manos Katrakis, Alekos Alexandrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Zoi Laskari,
Directors : Giannis Dalianidis,

When a beautiful loving daughter crashes her car on the day of her mother's wedding, a tragic tale of love, deception and betrayal will unfold behind the closed doors of a wealthy family.