Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Ian Bannen, Barry Foster,
Directors : David Wickes,

Cinematic spin-off from the popular TV series. Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of ...

Actors : Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu, Chien Sun,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three North Shaolin teachers (Lu Feng, Chang Sheng, and Sun Chien) are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Klaus Kinski, Chen Lee, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.

Actors : Cheryl Smith, Colleen Camp, Jo Johnston, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Jack Hill,

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Halit Akçatepe, Kartal Tibet, Hakki Kosar,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

Attila the Hun, to add power to power, assigns Tarkan to seize the Golden Sword in China land. In order to do that, he must defeat Wang Yu.

Actors : Richard Harris, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "romanian dream".

Actors : Aachi Manorama, K. Balaji, R.S. Manohar, Ashokan,
Directors : R. Krishnamurthy,

A village bumpkin poses as a Mafia don to uncover the gang.

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 : Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

Chen Kuan-tai battles assassins that use a deadly, beheading weapon to kill dissidents. Based on true events, the film's weapon was completely fabricated because in real life, no one ever ...

Actors : Charles Aznavour, James Coburn, Robert Culp, Susannah York,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gliders.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Prle and Tihi, being the only surviving members of their resistance group, had been forced to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join Partisans in country. In Summer of 1944 somebody is ...

Actors : Ching Wong, Jackie Chan, Yang Kao, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Historical movie, set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII, in which a group of Chinese rebels tries to oust the Japanese forces from a small town. Jackie Chan is one of the ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Al Lettieri, Robert Forster, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Sylvia Kristel, Cornel Wilde, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and ...

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 : Lisa Copeland, Cliff Emmich, Tommy Lee Jones, Yvette Mimieux,
Directors : Michael Miller,

This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Actors : Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Yehoram Gaon,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to ...