Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Yul Brynner, William Smith, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Atomic holocaust is not the only plague that threatens our future. New York City, 2012 A.D.: In a plague devastated world, one tired man finds a reason to fight.

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Fred Williamson, Margaret Avery, Julius Harris,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Sidney Poitier, Gerald S. O'Loughlin,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Tom Gries,

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

Actors : John Saxon, Cinzia De Carolis, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.

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 : Darren McGavin, Gary Collins, Robert Vaughn, James Hampton,
Directors : James L. Conway,

Shortly after the launch of a satellite from a space shuttle the satellite collides with an UFO in front of the crew's eyes. Because of an election campaign some politicians try to hide the...

Actors : Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston, Lawrence Cook, Janet League,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Actors : Adalberto Maria Merli, Bud Spencer, Juliette Mayniel, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Steno,

Adventures of the police inspector "Flatfoot" Rizzo in the slums of Naples.

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ...

Actors : Ottavia Piccolo, Stanley Baker, Enzo Cerusico, Alain Delon,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

In the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger.

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 : Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden...

Actors : Junko Hitomi, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Gorô Mutsumi,
Directors : Yoshiyuki Kuroda,

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Joe Santos, Burt Reynolds, John P. Ryan,
Directors : Buzz Kulik,

New York private eye Shamus McCoy likes girls, drink and gambling, but by the look of his flat business can't be too hot. So an offer of $10,000 to finds some diamonds stolen in a daring ...

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

Actors : George Murdock, Chuck Norris, Terry O'Connor, Don Gentry,
Directors : Don Hulette,

Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia

Actors : Baldwyn Dakile, Angelo Infanti, Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Steno,

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Shaan tells the story of DCP Shiv Kumar an honest, brave and upright police man. He live in the country with his wife, a daughter and two brothers Ravi and Vijay who are con men to the ...