Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Vinod Khanna, Jeetendra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ravi Chopra,

A dedicated railway employee's plan to introduce an express train result in sabotage.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Rakesh Kumar,

Two rival burglars end up at the same school with the intent of abducting a rich man's son for a large ransom.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Paul Rogers, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Actors : Marianna Hill, Patrick O'Neal, Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown,
Directors : John Guillermin,

The El Condor, the fabled Mexican stronghold rumoured to contain Emperor Maximilian's mythical reserves in gold, will attract two adventurous fortune seekers, who with eyes gleaming with desire, will shortly know that only fools rush in.

Actors : Sergio Fantoni, Sylva Koscina, Rock Hudson, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,

In 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing-up a vital enemy dam.

Actors : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Lynn Carlin, Jim Brown,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Actors : Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Jeevan, Pran,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Monu (Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in boxing. Their father gets killed by a goon following orders from Ranjit (Premnath). Mohan kills the ...

Actors : Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy, Kon Ohmura,
Directors : Noriaki Yuasa,

When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo '70, a giant, vaguely Triceratops-like monster is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Hideo Sunazuka, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ruriko Asaoka,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set ...

Actors : Percy Herbert, Carroll Baker, Lee Van Cleef, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Alexander Singer,

A Native American born US Army officer, Captain Apache, investigating a murder, uncovers a presidential assassination plot.

Actors : Viktor Kosykh, Mikhail Metyolkin, Vasiliy Vasilev, Valentina Kurdyukova,
Directors : Edmond Keosayan,

Third film in the Neulovimye mstiteli (1967) trilogy. This time the action is set in 1923/24 and the heroes Danya, Yasha, Ksanya and Valeri have joined the Cheka and take an active part ...

Actors : Julie Parrish, Simmy Bow, Hal Reed, Byron Mabe,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...

Actors : Yeh Tien, Hsin Tang, Yu Wang, Fei Lung,
Directors : Yu Wang,

After his schoolmate and master is killed and he loses an arm, student Tien Lung has to learn the art of one-arm boxing.

Actors : David Chiang, Mario Milano, Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching,

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Actors : Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Asao Koike, Noboru Andô,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds himself leading the remnants of the gang he once belonged to in order to secure an area of their own.

Actors : Kyoko Yoshizawa, Shintarô Katsu, Yasuhiro Koume, Kiwako Taichi,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Cüneyt Arkin, Bilal Inci, Meral Zeren,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Battal Gazi takes on the Byzantium to save his kidnapped wife and kid.

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Shintarô Katsu, Hisaya Morishige, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kazuo Mori,

On the road, Zatoichi meets a dying pregnant woman and delivers the child moments before she passes. Honor bound, he sets out to find the next-of-kin who he discovers have their own problems.