Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Alex Rocco,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The...

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 : Adalberto Maria Merli, Rosy Varte, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

Commissaire Letellier and Inspector Moissac are tracking Minos, a serial killer whose victims are women.

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Prunella Gee, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.

Actors : Jim Backus, Ann Sothern, Stuart Whitman, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, ...

Actors : Al Lettieri, Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale, Renato Scarpa,
Directors : Steno,

Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.

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 : Karen Valentine, Susan Clark, Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Bruce Bilson,

When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Goldstone,

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Actors : Ferruccio Amendola, Claudio Undari, Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Bud Spencer is, as always, getting into fights - especially after getting a job as sheriff. He's looking after a small boy who's actually an extraterrestrial with special abilities thus the military wants him. Bud's got his hands full.

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 ...

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 : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Actors : Michel Constantin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Actors : Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott,

A former getaway driver from Chicago (George C. Scott) has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job, involving driving a dangerous ...

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Dominic Barto, Yanti Somer,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.

Actors : Ralph Waite, William Smithers, Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set ...