Best Female Lead movies of 1960

Actors : Lloyd Nolan, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, John Kerr,
Directors : Joseph Cates,

Girl of the Night is about Bobbie (Anne Francis), a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madame, played by Kay Medford.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Izumi Yukimura, Akemi Kita, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Kôzô Saeki,

Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track, Clues lead Detective Yoneyama (Misashi) to Kobe where a narcotics gang is smuggling drugs in golf balls with the aid of an ex-cop (Takarada).

Actors : Halina Buyno-Loza, Mieczyslaw Gajda, Boguslaw Danielewski, Krystyna Feldman,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

The lives of several one room tenants in Warsaw's Old Town. All the young roommates - a poet, a student, a writer, a left-wing activist - have to face difficulties in finding a place for themselves in early 1930s reality.

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Pascale Petit, Giani Esposito, Serge Sauvion,
Directors : René Wheeler,

Catherine is at odds with her bourgeois family.She marries Jérome,a wealthy owner in North Africa,in spite of her relatives' disapproval.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Raymond Gérôme, Jean Servais, Danielle Darrieux,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

(1961) Danielle Darrieus, Michael Auclair. A singer believes she's being haunted by the ghost of her dead husband...

Actors : Shammi Kapoor, Pran, Minoo Mumtaz, Nutan,
Directors : Bibhuti Mitra,

A runaway spoiled rich girl is helped by a man she meets on the road, but their path to love is strewn with numerous misunderstandings, false accusations, a sudden tragedy and the pursing footsteps of a persistent pickpocket.

Actors : Dawn Addams, Hansjörg Felmy, Horst Frank, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Wolf Rilla,

Dawn Addams, Joachim Fuchsberger, Wera Frydtberg, Paul Dahlke. A British agent is sent in to infiltrate a German atomic laboratory and steal top secret documents. The daughter of a secret ...

Actors : Joanne Dru, Robert Strauss, Mark Stevens, Asher Dann,
Directors : Byron Haskin,

A young, handsome man works on the yacht of a Parisian tycoon who happens to be away at the moment. Two nautical layabouts convince the man to take them out looking for the sunken treasure.

Actors : Korneliya Bozhanova, Georgi Georgiev-Getz, Georgi Naumov, Georgi Kaloyanchev,
Directors : Rangel Vulchanov,

A lyrical account of a difficult love in a class-conscious society.

Actors : Micheline Presle, Martha Hyer, Wolfgang Preiss, Carlos Thompson,

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military ...

Actors : Rosa Mia, Lito Legaspi, Liberty Ilagan, Eddie Gutierrez,
Directors : Ding M. De Jesus,

Based on the popular 60s radio serial aired over DZRH, "Ginang Hokom" presented five true-to-life episodes taken from the court records and files. Rosa Mia, the "mater dolorosa" of Philippine movies, headlined the star-studded movie.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Severin Bijelic, Olivera Markovic, Mija Aleksic,
Directors : Zorz Skrigin,

Through several entangled stories, province atmosphere is shown, in which new ideas are hard to penetrate. Parallel with the seventh anniversary of peasant's cooperative farm, activity of a...

Actors : Franco Fabrizi, Gérard Blain, Yvonne Furneaux, Antonella Lualdi,
Directors : Mario Camerini,

The lives, loves and disappointments of a group of artist friends living in the same neighborhood in Rome, Via Margutta, a mecca for young artists, each struggling to be a success.

Actors : Manuel 'Loco' Valdés, María Gracia, Prudencia Grifell, Santanón,
Directors : Roberto Rodríguez,

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.

Actors : Frank Roche, Jo Ann LeCompte, James Brooks, Ray Gronwold,
Directors : Gordon Weisenborn,

A bored young girl looking for excitement gets involved with nude modeling, drugs and a rock band.

Actors : Július Pántik, Lia Eliava, Aleksandre Omiadze, Otar Koberidze,

Young couple separated by World War 2, dream of being reunited years later. Unusual (for that time) co-production between Slovakia and Georgia (then part of the USSR).

Actors : Christiane Martel, Elvira Quintana, Mapita Cortés, Flor Silvestre,
Directors : Benito Alazraki,

A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.

Actors : Linda Cristal, Pierre Brice, John Drew Barrymore, Armando Francioli,
Directors : Viktor Tourjansky,

A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a ...

Actors : Flor Silvestre, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mauricio Garcés, Julio Aldama,
Directors : Rogelio A. González,

Three beautiful sisters mistakenly purchase a cantina in northern Mexico, believing it to be a hacienda. But soon they find themselves falling for the three "braggarts" who manage the cantina.

Actors : Ziyue Zhao, Ting Zhou, Pei Liu,
Directors : Rong Wei,

Three poor children in Tibet leave home in search of a road being built by the People's Liberation Army.