Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

Six teenagers from New Jersey run off to go to a Beatles concert to meet their idols, despite not having tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Don Gordon,
Directors : Dennis Hopper,

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

Actors : Richard Harris, O.J. Simpson, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

Actors : Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Zohra Lampert, Gretchen Corbett,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

Actors : Chia Yung Liu, Lieh Lo, Chia-Hui Liu, Norman Chu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A man studies kung fu at the Shaolin Temple to fight back against the oppressive Manchu government.

Actors : Hülya Tuglu, Kadir Inanir, Ahmet Mekin, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Story of a dilemma between a woman's love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the ...

Actors : William Finley, Margot Kidder, Charles Durning, Jennifer Salt,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A journalist witnesses a brutal murder in a neighboring apartment, but the police do not believe that the crime took place. With the help of a private detective, she seeks out the truth.

Actors : Michael Higgins, Barbara Loden, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes,
Directors : Barbara Loden,

In the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, Wanda Goronski is constantly drinking to shut out the problems in her life. Having deserted her husband and infant children, Wanda sleeps on her ...

Actors : Pippa Steel, Madeline Smith, Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.

Actors : Klaus Löwitsch, Gisela Uhlen, Ivan Desny, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Britta Barnes, Fiona Florence,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital.

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Vera Alentova, Irina Muravyova, Raisa Ryazanova,
Directors : Vladimir Menshov,

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : John McIntire, Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit in Italy in May 1938.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Wim van den Brink, Tonny Huurdeman, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a ...

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 : Claudio Camaso, Luigi Pistilli, Claudine Auger, Anna Maria Rosati,
Directors : Mario Bava,

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing ...