Best Female Lead movies of 1972

Actors : Elena Nathanail, Eleni Anousaki, Anna Fonsou, Udo Kier,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

Angelos suffer from impotence caused by painful memories of the first woman he tried to have sex with. She was later murdered by an unknown person. With a ticket to Australia, Angelos hopes...

Actors : Gino Cervi, Sylva Koscina, Ottavia Piccolo, Rodolfo Baldini,
Directors : Giuseppe Rolando,

Valeria (Piccolo) and Gianni (Baldini) are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion.

Actors : Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Noriko Kurosawa, Kôji Moritsugu, Chôei Takahashi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

Actors : Ewa Strömberg, Barbara Nielsen, Ingrid Steeger, Ingeborg Steinbach,
Directors : Hubert Frank,

A reporter begins research on a story involving married European women and their secret fantasies and desires.

Actors : Hideo Kanze, Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Meg Flower,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

When her husband leaves her for a younger woman, a woman plots revenge against him.

Actors : Julian Negulesco, Yves Robert, Didi Perego, Jeanne Moreau,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

A young woman, Louise, is a lecturer in a provincial town where she meets an Italian immigrant. The film retraces their relationship.

Actors : Hiram Keller, Micaela Pignatelli, Macha Méril, Jürgen Drews,
Directors : Gian Vittorio Baldi,

The logical consequences of unrestrained hedonism are explored in this Italian drama.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending.

Actors : Rehana Sultan, Radha Saluja, Mehmood, Anil Dhawan,
Directors : C.P. Dixit,

Kamal is a single woman who lives in Bombay, India. She finds work as a Governess with a widowed male named Madhu Sudan Gupta, an Architect by profession, who lives in a palatial house with...

Actors : Konstantin Kotsev, Nikolai Ouzounov, Violeta Pavlová, Tzvetana Maneva,
Directors : Nikola Petkov,

A Girl is hitchhiking to the seaside. At nightfall, she sneaks in a gas station. The Boy who works there discovers her. The two begin a conversation. Through the gas station pass very ...

Actors : Suzana Gonçalves, Mariza Mayer, Yara Lins, Edgard Franco,
Directors : Maurício Nabuco,

Bia is a drug-addicted middle-aged woman, separated from her husband Eduardo. She takes Bebeto, a drug dealer, as her lover, so she can have access to drugs. But Bebeto mistreats her and ...

Actors : Nicholas Ney, Inés Morales, Diana Sorel, Loreta Tovar,
Directors : José María Elorrieta,

A small rural Spanish village of the present is haunted by vampires. Dr.Dora Maeterlick is called to a nearby castle to cure the father of Baron Carl von Rysselbert who suffers from a ...

Actors : Giovanni Rosselli, Mimsy Farmer, François Simon, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Fabio Carpi,

A father and son, separated by the "generation gap," discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.

Actors : Gustav Wiklund, Paul Osipow, Riitta Elstelä, Tea Ista,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

Sanna, a middle-aged widow, has moved from Finland to Sweden with her two children. She starts a correspondence with doctor Peter Mackus, who is married and with two children. Their meeting...

Actors : Tammy Gibbs, Misty Rowe, Nick Klar, Linda Avery,

Maggie learns she's pregnant so she runs away from home. Before long she gets involved with some other girls on their own who have found a way of supporting themselves. She joins them in ...

Actors : Tim Elliott, Marion Johns, Jane Harders, June Collis,
Directors : Jim Sharman,

A group of aliens plans to invade Australia as a means of taking over the Earth. In order to communicate with the people of Earth, they bring a statue of the long-dead Duke of Edinburgh to life.

Actors : Terri Johnson, Sandy Carey, Marsha Jordan, Rene Bond,
Directors : Stephen C. Apostolof,

Brenda, Madie, and Tammy go on a ski vacation, where they have intimate encounters with men.

Actors : Ernst Schütz, Michael Schanze, Jutta Speidel, Heidi Hansen,
Directors : Franz Antel,

Unverhofft erbt das Nummerngirl Eva das marode "Schwarze Rössl" am Wolfgangsee. Mit ihrer resoluten Freundin Maxi und dem Hausfaktotum Zacherl nimmt sie den Kampf gegen das Nobel-Hotel "...

Actors : Peter Ehrlich, Senta Berger, Margarethe von Trotta, Helmut Griem,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Ruth Halbfass has been married to the industrialist Erich Halbfass for sixteen years in a loveless marriage and they have a fourteen year-old teenage daughter, Aglaia. Ruth has a love ...

Actors : Jeong-hie Yu, Jang-kang Heo,
Directors : Man-hui Lee,

An investigation of a motorcycle gang gets sidetracked as the police unit uncovers a case of child abuse and kidnapping.