Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Leslie Caron, Avis Bunnage, Anthony Booth, Patricia Phoenix,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Frank Perry,

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Randy Borscheidt, Christian Päffgen, Brigid Berlin, Angelina 'Pepper' Davis,

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.

Actors : Misako Watanabe, Minako Katsuki, Tamio Kawaji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Bernard Cribbins, Peter Cushing, John Richardson,
Directors : Robert Day,

An Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality.

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Actors : Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Avril Angers, John Comer,
Directors : Roy Boulting,

Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.

Actors : Delphine Seyrig, Nita Klein, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit - ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Jack Kruschen, Ray Walston, Doris Day,
Directors : Frank Tashlin,

An industrial designer causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.

Actors : Richard Burton, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Christian Marquand,

Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Claude Giraud, Michèle Mercier, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

In the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer.

Actors : Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Anthony Asquith,

A Millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set-up by their respective parents.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa, Tomiko Ishii, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and...

Actors : Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette, Murray Hamilton, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Wolfgang Preiss,
Directors : Fritz Lang,

During the 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse is using hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Renzo Ricci, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Actors : Erika Peters, Frank Gerstle, Marjorie Eaton, Frank Fowler,

A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

Actors : Catherine Sée, Christian Charrière, Philippe Beuzen, Diane Wilkinson,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

The friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.

Actors : Stanislav Khitrov, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Nadezhda Rumyantseva,
Directors : Yuriy Chulyukin,

Tonya has just graduated from the trade school and found a job as a cook in a Siberian village. She is naive but open hearted and kind. When Ilya starts flirting with her she takes it as a ...