Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Mariette Hartley, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, 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 : Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Georges Géret, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.

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 : Gloria Delaney, Jimmy Lynch, Lady Reed, Rudy Ray Moore,
Directors : Cliff Roquemore,

A flabby black comedian defends his community from attacks by stereotypical whites.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Actors : Robert Hogan, Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

1930's gangster era film about Dillinger and his last girl. Written by John Sayles.

Actors : Imtiaz Khan, Zeenat Aman, Vijay Arora, Dharmendra,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they learned as children.

Actors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fat Chung, Ha Huang, Lung Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Villager Bold Cheung (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo), known for his willingness to do anything courageous, bold or daring, becomes a target by the evil rich Master Tam (Huang Ha), who committed ...

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 : Gino Santercole, Tomas Milian, Laura Belli, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Actors : Dean Shek, Siu Tin Yuen, Hung Lieh Chen, Jackie Chan,

Young Jackie was intrigued by Kung-Fu since an early age, but his father strictly forbade its practice. One day, he meets an old beggar who offers to teach Jackie how to fight. Jackie grows...

Actors : Alexander Knox, Sven-Bertil Taube, Patrick Allen, Barbara Parkins,
Directors : Geoffrey Reeve,

Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do ...

Actors : James Mason, Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Terence Young,

A brutal drug trader takes his violent revenge after his wife is captured by a drug boss.

Actors : Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, Michael Miller, William Lucking,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Doc and the Amazing Five battle Captain Seas and "the green death" for control of a fabulous resource.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, George C. Scott, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

Actors : Puiu Calinescu, Sebastian Papaiani, Dem Radulescu, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.

Actors : Chih-Ping Chiang, Jackie Chan, Hsiu-yi Fang, Hong Hsu,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Don Sharp,

On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during WW2, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency NATO frequency and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Daniel Ivernel, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Actors : Ping-Yu Chang, Jackie Chan, Chung-Erh Lung, Kang Chin,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie witnesses his father's death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique. Jackie vows to become a Shaolin monk and avenge his death (not very ...