Best Adventure movies of 1970s

Actors : Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions. Among their hostages are singer Johnny Hallyday and an ambassador in ...

Actors : Jacques Balutin, Georges Atlas, Jacques Careuil, Nadine Basile,
Directors : Raymond Leblanc,

Tintin and his friends visit Professor Calculus at his country laboratory, only to find him and a pair of local children threatened by criminals after the inventor's work.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, George Kennedy, Sally Kellerman, Peter Finch,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of...

Actors : Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, George Sanders,
Directors : Don Sharp,

A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Malgorzata Braunek,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Actors : Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. ...

Actors : Claude Dauphin, Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV ...

Actors : Roger Ward, George Lazenby, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Yu Wang,

Hong Kong Inspector Fang Sing Leng travels to Australia to extradite a drug dealer. When the hood is assassinated on his way to court, everyone suspects Jack Wilton, a crime lord who the local police haven't been able to pick up.

Actors : Frank Thornton, John Inman, Trevor Bannister, Mollie Sugden,
Directors : Bob Kellett,

The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka while the department is being remodeled.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Evel Knievel, Red Buttons, Lauren Hutton,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico. What Evel doesn't know is that they're planning to kill him and use his body to ship cocaine into the U.S. His ...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Elliott Gould, Ricky Schroder, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

When a plane carrying various animals makes a forced landing on a desert island, the only chance to escape is to convert the plane into a boat.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Pamela Brown,
Directors : Robert Fuest,

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Beba Loncar, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In a vein similar to James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

Actors : Diana Lorys, Silvia Monti, Terence Hill, George Martin,
Directors : Lorenzo Gicca Palli,

Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a...

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Prasitsak Singhara, Sulallewan Suxantat, Me Me Lai,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

After a photographer is captured by a native tribe and put through several trials, he must fight to protect the village and his new love interest, the chief's daughter.

Actors : Claude Akins, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Charlton Heston,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Jeff East, Warren Oates,
Directors : Don Taylor,

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

Actors : Roger Moore, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland, Susannah York,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the ...