Best Action movies of 1970s

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 : 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 ...

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Jim Kelly, Eric Laneuville, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Max Baer Jr., Alan Vint, Cheryl Waters,
Directors : Richard Compton,

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.

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 : 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 : Angela Lansbury, Elliott Gould, Herbert Lom, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Anthony Page,

Whilst traveling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realise a passenger seems to have been kidnapped off their train, but, no other passenger aside from themselves, recalls her.

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 : 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 : Pai Wei, Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Tak-Hing Kwan,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons and is accused of raping the head of that school's ...

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger, Pam Grier, Austin Stoker,
Directors : William Girdler,

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward,
Directors : Jack Gold,

In WW1 the high casualty rate among the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.

Actors : Mariette Hartley, Michael Callan, Stefanie Powers, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : George McCowan,

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Raj Kiran, Simi Garewal, Tina Ambani,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Ravi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from previous life and inquires about his family from first life and his evil wife Kamini.

Actors : Raymond Gérôme, Raquel Welch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Dany Saval,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

The funny misadventures of a dating duo of film stunt professionals in France.

Actors : Meng Lo, Kuan-Tai Chan, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, 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 : Philip Michael Thomas, Charles Gordone, Barry White, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Yanti Somer, Dominic Barto,
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.