Best Training movies of 1970s

Actors : Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Karen Lynn Gorney, John Travolta,
Directors : John Badham,

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...

Actors : Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Julie Neesam, Nicholas Ball,
Directors : Stuart Cooper,

During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

Actors : Jennifer Warren, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Paul Newman,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Robert Webber, Goldie Hawn, Armand Assante,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jack Warden, Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Barry Primus, David Carradine, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Caine, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon, Charles Durning,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Tom Gries,

John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.

Actors : James Mason, Perry King, Richard Ward, Susan George,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Dean Shek, Siu Tin Yuen, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

Jackie Chan is a boy who is used as a janitor at his kung-fu school. Jackie Chan can't fight and is always getting bullied by the teachers and pupils. One day an old man helps Jackie train ...

Actors : Iftekhar, Zeenat Aman, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Chandra Barot,

Don, a wanted criminal, dies in a police chase. DSP D'Silva is the only one who knows about his death, and to get hold of the gang he trains Don-lookalike Vijay. But Vijay faces danger from the police and from within the gang.

Actors : Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Competition between privately owned LA ambulance companies is played for humor.

Actors : Jackie Earle Haley, Tony Curtis, Antonio Inoki, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : John Berry,

In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best ...

Actors : Clifton James, Jimmy Baio, Jackie Earle Haley, William Devane,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Sean Connery, Jack Weston, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, Gilbert Green, Will Geer,
Directors : David Miller,

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Nando Paone, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Raimund Harmstorf,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. ...

Actors : O.E. Hasse, Renato Salvatori, Jacques Weber, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by ...