Best Female Lead movies of 1972

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 : Alena Penz, Christiane Maybach, Eva Garden, Sybil Danning,

When their straight-laced sister loses her job and returns home, Maria and Christel's sex lives grinds to a halt. They conspire, with the aid of a "potency pill," to change her views about sex. But little goes as planned.

Actors : Erkki Pajala, Matti Kassila, Heikki Hämäläinen, Eeva-Maija Haukinen,
Directors : Risto Jarva,

A psyhiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

Actors : Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe, Bonnie Bedelia, Sebastian,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.

Actors : Timothy Brown, Pamela Collins, Phyllis Davis, Ellaraino,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who ...

Actors : Yi Chang, Kyung-Ah Oh, Ying Bai, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Tien arrives in town looking to exact revenge on Ling for abandoning her pregnant sister and thus driving said sister to commit suicide. Although Tien agrees to help Ling take down the ...

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 : Ivan Rassimov, Luigi Pistilli, Pilar Velázquez, Ida Galli,
Directors : Romano Scavolini,

As a Child Mariale witnesses her father kill her mother. Years later, she spends her life with little contact from the outside world living in a gloomy castle. One day, however Mariale ...

Actors : Jan Englert, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Lucja Kowolik,
Directors : Kazimierz Kutz,

Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Trish Van Devere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her ...

Actors : Bernard Blier, Roger Carel, Maurice Biraud, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Michel Audiard,

Actors : Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine ...

Actors : Jane Tsentas, Rick Cassidy, Cleo O'Hara, Sandra Henderson,
Directors : Walt Davis,

A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.

Actors : Clint Kimbrough, Patty Byrne, Mittie Lawrence, Alana Stewart,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their ...

Actors : Meral Taygun, Yesim Tan, Sadri Alisik, Zeynep Degirmencioglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Actors : Mahin Shahabi, Googoosh, Ezzatolah Entezami, Sana Ziaian,
Directors : Hajir Dariush,

Bita is a young girl who lives with her parents. She loves her ill father very much but her mother is reckless about them. Bita is in love with an open minded young reporter Korush and ...

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Lavrentis Dianellos, Nikos Rizos, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Galanos,
Directors : Takis Vougiouklakis,

Young Aliki, after the death of her father, Mr. Nestoras, who was the general administrator of a theatrical company, takes the road to Athens with her sole companion Arapis, her dog. The ...

Actors : Maurizio Degli Esposti, Lucia Bosé, Rosaria, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Giulio Questi,

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a ...

Actors : María Vico, Michael J. Pollard, Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel,
Directors : Gonzalo Suárez,

This Spanish thriller tells the story of two newlyweds and the uncanny happenings that attend their low-budget honeymoon.