Best Action movies of 1974

Actors : Hark-On Fung, Kuan Tai Chen, Hsin Fang, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Hung escapes Shaolin after the temple is attacked by the Ching, only to be jailed with the help of Fang (also of Shoalin) who mistakes him for a bandit. Fang must now help Hung escape so they can challenge the Ching together.

Actors : Chuck Boyd, Sylvia Chang, Don Wong, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

Actors : Tani Guthrie, Jennifer Billingsley, John Considine, 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 : John Phillip Law, Peter Fonda, Richard Lynch, Cornelia Sharpe,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

Actors : Clyde Ventura, Douglas Dirkson, Sam Gilman, Claudia Jennings,

Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Isao Natsuyagi, Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

Actors : Connie Strickland, William Smith, Carol Speed, Rockne Tarkington,
Directors : Charles Bail,

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Actors : Toshio Kurosawa, Tetsurô Tanba, Kaoru Yumi, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late....

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Stacy Keach, Margot Kidder, Barry Primus,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.

Actors : Tallie Cochrane, Jabie Abercrombe, Donna Young, Rene Bond,
Directors : Stephen C. Apostolof,

Five inmates break out of a women's prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn't commit. As the authorities chase them down, the ...

Actors : Bruce Lee, Van Williams, Lloyd Gough, Wende Wagner,

Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.

Actors : Peter Cushing, Stuart Whitman, Lung Ti, Lily Li,

Shatter, an international hitman, is hiding out in Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader. Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the ...

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, David Birney,
Directors : Geoffrey Reeve,

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But...

Actors : Shirley Washington, Chiquito, James Iglehart, Marissa Delgado,
Directors : Cesar Gallardo,

The Jefferson's honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. ...

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Cheri Caffaro, Rosanna Ortiz, John Ashley,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader ...

Actors : Hua Yueh, Malisa Longo, Aldo Canti, Marc Hannibal,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

Three men with supernatural powers interfere in a tribal warfare to prevent evil Amazons destroying the inhabitants of a village.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and ...

Actors : Lu-Yi Chuo, Cüneyt Arkin, Yao Lin Chen, Tao Chiang,
Directors : Victor Lamp,

Erol is a successful cop, who lives with his sister Yasemin. Wang, the most troublesome gang leader of Hong Kong comes to Istanbul. The Security Department of Istanbul, appoint Erol to ...

Actors : Teruhiko Saigô, Takahiro Tamura, Ken Ogata, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Fabio Testi, Franco Nero, Lina Polito,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some ...