Best Female Lead movies of 1972

Actors : Hope Stansbury, Noel Collins, Joan Ogden, Jackie Skarvellis,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

The daughter in a family of werewolves decides to put an end to the family curse.

Actors : Forrest Lorne, Ray Wray, Laurel Canyon, Candy Sweet,
Directors : Ray Williams,

Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult ...

Actors : Zita Duarte, João Guedes, Laura Soveral, Ruy Furtado,
Directors : Fernando Lopes,

Actors : Müsfik Kenter, Halit Akçatepe, Kadir Inanir, Hülya Koçyigit,
Directors : Memduh Ün,

A blind panhandler girl as an idealist dreamer joins three cronies in a supper, after which the cronies decide to rob a rich man's villa to collect enough money for her to recover from ...

Actors : Jack Bond, Liz Danciger, Sheila Allen, Jane Arden,
Directors : Jane Arden,

Jane Arden's surreal take on a group of females in a therapy session.

Actors : Dixie Peabody, Clyde Ventura, Joanne Moore Jordan, Terry Mace,
Directors : Barbara Peeters,

Tautly directed biker film, told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.

Actors : Diana Dors, Peder Kinberg, Cia Löwgren, Solveig Andersson,
Directors : Joseph W. Sarno,

The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ring leader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam's shows always feature her bodacious nieces...

Actors : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Marthe Keller, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Blanc,

Actors : Stavros Kalaroglou, Kostas Rigopoulos, Smaro Veaki, Anna Vagena,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

Anna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.

Actors : Juan Luis Galiardo, Fernando Rey, Adriano Celentano, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist.

Actors : John Anderson, Clu Gulager, Sam Elliott, Vera Miles,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handsome young man named Johnny, plays on ...

Actors : Frank Wolff, Fiammetta Baralla, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Pasquale Festa Campanile,

Two tribes of dimwitted cavemen prepare for war against each other.

Actors : Harry Lauter, Craig Littler, Antoinette Bower, Vic Diaz,
Directors : George Schenck,

A doctor finds a jungle laboratory, complete with mad scientist and genetic engineering experiments.

Actors : Marvin Howard, Eric Allison, Mason Caulfield, Maria De Aragon,
Directors : Harry Essex,

An alien life form that is a huge ball of living matter invades earth, and replenishes itself by absorbing people.

Actors : Annik Borel, Maria Arnold, Tracy Handfuss, Jacqueline Giroux,
Directors : Tom DeSimone,

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to ...

Actors : Claude Jade, Bernard Le Coq, Jean Rochefort, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Serge Korber,

Seit Jahren lebt Marie-Louise allein mit ihren Kindern Laura und Jean-Paul. Als der untreue Gatte wieder auftaucht, hält Medizinstudentin Laura zur Mutter, doch Jean-Paul wendet sich von ...

Actors : Michael Craze, Michael Petrovitch, Frank Finlay, Susan Hampshire,
Directors : Fred Burnley,

This movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper there and they quickly become lovers. ...

Actors : Makis Demiris, Nonika Galinea, Alekos Alexandrakis, Rena Vlahopoulou,
Directors : Alekos Sakellarios,

The Countess of Corfu is a 1972 film starring Rena Vlahopoulou, Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea. The movie was filmed in Corfu, the birthplace of Rena Vlahopoulou.

Actors : Luis Arroyo, Marcia Forbes, Harlan Cary Poe, Evelyn Kingsley,
Directors : Stanley H. Brassloff,

Emotionally stunted child woman Jamie Godard not only suffers from an unhealthy fixation on her long absent father, but also has an obsession with all the toys he gave her as a little girl....