Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Feng Ku, Chen Chi Lin, Hui-Ling Liu, Lung Ti,
Directors : Shan Hua,

Famed actor Ti Lung plays a lone swordsman trying to defeat the "Number One Swordsman" as part of his vengeance package in life in Soul Of The Sword. He quickly learns however, that sometimes wanting is better than having.

Actors : Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche, Gordon Pinsent, George Peppard,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

In 1970s Los Angeles, honest cop Vince Newman struggles to win the battle against crime and against corruption in his own department.

Actors : Shirô Itô, Yûki Meguro, Eiko Ezaki, Maria Anzai,
Directors : Takashi Tsuboshima,

Though his father's partner Jigen wants him to take charge of the Lupin Empire and the obsessed detective Zenigata wants him behind bars, Lupin III is only concerned about being with the beautiful (and treacherous) lady thief Fujiko.

Actors : Yuet Sang Chin, Meg Lam, Jason Pai Piao, Fat Chung,
Directors : Karl Maka,

Multi-Hand Chick asks Crazy Frog for protection after stealing someone's wallet at the casino. Foolishly he accepts, and even more foolishly he follows her home and removes his Invincible ...

Actors : Jana Bellan, Timothy Brown, Russ Tamblyn, Geoffrey Land,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Kicks Carter, a streetwise Las Vegs cop, is out to shut down an upscale hotel that is actually a front for a host of illegal activities. A gang headed by the scuzzy Ziggy is running ...

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Another iconoclastic work from the action auteur Chang Cheh, and winner of Honourable Mention for Dramatic Feature at the 13th Golden Horse Awards, 7-Man Army retells the legend of seven ...

Actors : Jess Walton, Paul Prokop, Michael Ontkean, Clint Ritchie,
Directors : Douglas Schwartz,

Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main ...

Actors : Hristos Nomikos, Maria Aliferi, Jessica Dublin, Peter Winter,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

Two crooks get the job to protect a mysterious young girl and her mother from a bunch of gangsters.

Actors : Iurie Darie, Puiu Calinescu, Jean Constantin, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Actors : Hema Malini, Pran, Prem Chopra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Pramod Chakravorty,

A wealthy businessman moonlights as a philanthropist, robbin' the hood as it were.

Actors : Eduards Pavuls, Regina Razuma, Vija Artmane, Boris Khmelnitskiy,
Directors : Sergey Tarasov,

With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and ...

Actors : Jeff Blynn, Leonard Mann, Henry Silva, Ida Galli,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

Fast paced Italian crime movie with the various action scenes revolving around bank robberies, street violence, car chases, cops verses the underworld at its greatest. If you have ever been...

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Sherry Jackson, Michael Heit, Robert Viharo,
Directors : Don Edmonds,

A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.

Actors : Diane Keller, Michael D. White, Jason Williams, Bill Osco,
Directors : Walter R. Cichy,

Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Paula Kelly, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An ex-convict priest and a framed former policeman hunt a machine-gun killer behind a bank robbery.

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Michele Gammino,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Starting the investigation of a murder mystery, a police man is to investigate dangerously top politicians and military. A chain of suicides takes its toll among the current and past ...

Actors : Fonda Lynn, Jacky Lim, Alan Tam, Lona Chang,
Directors : Karen Yang,

A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.

Actors : Timothy Brown, Pamela Collins, Phyllis Davis, Ellaraino,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who ...

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Masashi Ishibashi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Randy Mewbourn, Bobby Watson, Paul Benefield, Don Watson,
Directors : Jim West,

A criminal gang bust two of their incarcerated colleagues out of jail in order for them to take on a high profile drug smuggling operation.