Best Female Lead movies of 1960s

Actors : Deborah Kerr, John Mills, Edith Evans, Hayley Mills,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! ...

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 : Paulette Dubost, George Hamilton, Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau,
Directors : Louis Malle,

Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus,...

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 : 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 : 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 : Anne Bancroft, Flora Robson, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.