Best Female Lead movies of 1978

Actors : Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf,
Directors : Alain Payet,

A female Russian doctor is taken prisoner into a château where German officers go for entertainment, and she struggles both against imprisonment and the sadistic female warden.

Actors : Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Silvia Reize, Tina Engel, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder ...

Actors : Michèle Simonnet, Nathalie Nell, Pierre Arditi, Alain Fourès,
Directors : Yannick Bellon,

Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she ...

Actors : Vladislav Strzhelchik, Oleg Borisov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Vitaliy Melnikov,

Actors : Vasilis Kolovos, Nikos Kapios, Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas,
Directors : Nikos Koundouros,

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing ...

Actors : Peteris Gaudins, Gunars Cilinskis, Vija Artmane, Ivars Kalnins,
Directors : Janis Streics,

Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.

Actors : Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino, Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano,
Directors : Paul Naschy,

Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is ...

Actors : Jesper Christensen, Benny Dahl, Lise Lotte Henriksen, Helle Borup,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

Actors : John Frawley, John Derum, Ruth Cracknell, Kerry Walker,
Directors : Jim Sharman,

The Night The Prowler, is about the dark side of suburban middle-class urban culture and family relations. It film brings to the surface some of the darkest recesses of suburban family life...

Actors : Peter Kilman, Kevin McKenzie, Katharine Hepburn, Dennis Dimster,
Directors : Richard A. Colla,

Two young boys and an eccentric old woman who owns a junkyard work together to build a hot-air balloon in time to launch it on the birthday of one boy's late grandfather.

Actors : Turi Ferro, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York.

Actors : Mircha Carven, Lilli Carati, Ajita Wilson, Marco Guglielmi,
Directors : Claudio Giorgi,

A teenage girl falls in love with a man who works in live sex shows, and who just happens to be having an affair with the girl's stepmother--with her father's knowledge.

Actors : Beba Bidart, Fernanda Mistral, Luisina Brando, Julio De Grazia,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.

Actors : Sophie Barjac, Daniel Ceccaldi, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Grellier,
Directors : Michel Lang,

August in Brittany at a seaside hotel. Some guests are new, some come every year and are friends. The men nearing middle age fish and plan infidelities; their wives have surprises of their ...

Actors : Elaine Boies, Louise Gallandra, Jeannie Cusick, Dale Hansen,
Directors : Andy Milligan,

Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs...

Actors : Bulut Aras, Ayfer Feray, Erol Tas, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Easily deceived by her charming affectation, a boisterous country man kidnaps an adventurous damsel to a far off land hoping soon she will come to her senses with him. She lacks the courage to reject his straightforward endearment.

Actors : Patrizia Gori, Richard Allan, Dominique Aveline, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Patrice Rhomm,

Vicious warden Helga runs the castle penitentiary Stilberg for female political prisoners with an iron fist. Stubborn and recalcitrant new inmate Elisabeth Vogel, who's the daughter of a ...

Actors : Yun Ling, Ying Bai, Barry Chan, Nancy Yen,
Directors : Chia Chih Li,

A soldier returning home from battle joins forces with villagers seeking justice after their families are brutally slain.

Actors : Nan Martin, Timothy Bottoms, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California. They rent a summer ...

Actors : Beryl Reid, Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle, John Le Mesurier,
Directors : Justin Cartwright,

Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.