Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama, Ken Yoshizawa, Yuki Aresa,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Dobrescu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

Actors : Eva Bender, Altan Günbay, Kartal Tibet, Zeki Alasya,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

The story of Tarkan and his friends efforts to rescue Atilla's kidnapped son.

Actors : Betty Pei Ti, Charlie Chin, Jackie Chan, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Incriminating evidence against a gang is left in a cab when a gang member dies in it. The gang chases the innocent cab driver, who receives help from the dead gangster's sister - a tough police woman.

Actors : Marc Porel, Richard Conte, Carla Gravina, Alain Delon,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Actors : Keizô Kanie, Kazuko Inano, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as prostitutes, and a notorious thief who plans to rob the mint.

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Cüneyt Arkin, Meral Orhonsay, Melda Sözen,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Sultan Khan of Ottoman Empire has fallen in love with Princess Iren of Byzantium. When he asks her father Niktol for her hand he refuses and tries to kill Khan. The Sultan's armies then ...

Actors : Kazim Kartal, Reha Yurdakul, Cüneyt Arkin, Birsen Ayda,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

After his family is killed in front of his eyes, little Seyit Battal grows up to be the nightmare of Byzantine's Black Knighthood.

Actors : James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine,
Directors : Robert Parrish,

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

Actors : Sandy Harbutt, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Deryck Barnes, Lex Mitchell,
Directors : Sandy Harbutt,

Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Sandy Harbutt's timeless Australian cult film about a bunch of renegades riding Kawasaki 900s.

Actors : David Chiang, Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi, Sanae Ôhori, Asao Uchida,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and ...

Actors : Renzo Palmer, Barbara Bach, Franco Nero, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.

Actors : Yutaka Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Vladan Holec, Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's ...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zerrin Arbas, Bilal Inci, Yavuz Selekman,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

When, now senior, Battal Gazi is killed by Byzantine Prince, his son swears to take revenge.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Robert DoQui, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler,
Directors : Earl Bellamy,

Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.

Actors : Tony King, Thalmus Rasulala, Fred Williamson, Pam Grier,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince ...

Actors : Shirley Washington, Trina Parks, Edna Richardson, Bettye Sweet,
Directors : William Witney,

Syreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow.