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 : 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 : 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 : Arundhati Devi, Soumitra Chatterjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Chhabi Biswas,
Directors : Tapan Sinha,

The film is adapted from a story called Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore. A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted. As time...

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 : 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 : Dawn Addams, Hansjörg Felmy, Joachim Fuchsberger, Horst Frank,
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 : 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, Nutan, Minoo Mumtaz,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.