Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

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

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

Actors : Roger Mutton, Marianne Faithfull, Marius Goring, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.

Actors : Flora Robson, Anne Bancroft, Margaret Leighton, Sue Lyon,
Directors : John Ford,

In China in 1935, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.

Actors : Maureen O'Hara, Chill Wills, Steve Cochran, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

Actors : Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro, Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

Actors : Hans Alfredson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg, Inger Nilsson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.

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 : 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 : Erika Remberg, Frank Wolff, Paolo Turco, Silvana Venturelli,
Directors : Radley Metzger,

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in ...

Actors : Dawn Addams, Gert Fröbe, 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 : Dirk Bogarde, Aline MacMahon, Judy Garland, Jack Klugman,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father...

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Doris Day, Pat Carroll, Brian Keith,
Directors : Howard Morris,

Two widowed people fall in love and marry, unprepared for the hostile reactions of their children.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.

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 : 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.