Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A merc is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Actors : Jack Elam, Cornel Wilde, Lee Majors, Mel Ferrer,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Fernando Rey, Stella Stevens,

A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.

Actors : Pomson Shi, Yao Lin Chen, Chiu-Sing Hau, John Cheung,
Directors : Sum Cheung,

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert ...

Actors : Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ...

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Ray Lovelock, Richard Conte, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of...

Actors : Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Dallas Edward Hayes, Beverly Ballard,
Directors : Larry Yust,

Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

Actors : Tani Guthrie, John Considine, Jennifer Billingsley, Judith McConnell,
Directors : Terry Becker,

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.

Actors : David Chiang, Cecilia Wong, Chia Yung Liu, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Shaolin Mantis (Orig. Tang lang) is a 1978 Shaw Brothers film directed by Lau Kar-leung. Starring David Chiang and Liu Chia Hui. Shaolin Mantis tells the story of a man who learns martial arts by observing a praying mantis.

Actors : Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Thommy Berggren, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his ...

Actors : Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson, Lee Remick,
Directors : Don Sharp,

Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Fei Ai, Ping Chen, Shen Chan,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Two clans compete for dominance over the martial arts world in this classic of violent swordplay and political intrigue. A complex tale of deception and double crosses. Killer Clans leaves ...

Actors : David Chiang, Jeanette Yu Wei, Ping Wang, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A Kung Fu artist sacrifices everything to avenge his father's execution.

Actors : Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.

Actors : William Smith, Carl Steppling, Tom Baker, Frank Leo,
Directors : Richard Compton,

Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.

Actors : Yuriy Tolubeev, Oleg Tabakov, Spartak Mishulin, Andrey Mironov,
Directors : Vladimir Bychkov,

Spring 1918. After the Russian Revolution, Prince Meshchersky' collection of paintings and sculptures was to be nationalized. However, Tarakanov, the Prince's former land steward steals it,...

Actors : David Chiang, Pawana Chanajit, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. One of the ...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Aruna Irani, Mehmood Jr., Jeetendra,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Sunita is a young woman who ends up married to the wrong man, Rajan. Thinking that he has conspired with his girlfriend, Monica to murder her, she runs away to find an old friend of her ...

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Ettore Manni, Stephanie Beacham, Patricia Hayes,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

The Superbitch uses her body to deceive and manipulate men to get what she wants.