Best Female Lead movies of 1970s

Actors : Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Antonio Marsina, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.

Actors : Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Amy Stryker, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".

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 : Mel Gibson, Pat Evison, Piper Laurie, Alwyn Kurts,
Directors : Michael Pate,

A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuse his naiveté. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Catherine Rivet, Frédéric Lagache, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Francis Giacobetti,

Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very ...

Actors : Lun Hua, Lung Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers ...

Actors : James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Clu Gulager, Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Paul Aaron,

When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Greece 1939 - 1952 Fascist, Nazi, Communist conflict as seen through a family of travelling provincial players

Actors : Iya Savvina, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft,
Directors : Eldar Ryazanov,

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal...

Actors : Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs, Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes,

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Roland Amstutz, Nathalie Baye, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

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 : 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 : Akemi Negishi, Yôko Hori, Ryôko Ema, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Ann Marie, Ken Kerr, June Mack, Kitten Natividad,
Directors : Russ Meyer,

Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna & Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not ...

Actors : Cemil Sahbaz, Sadri Alisik, Ferdi Merter, Erol Amaç,
Directors : Hulki Saner,

The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Ellen Burstyn,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...