Best Action movies of 1970s

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 : Dean Shek, Ching Wong, Kar-Yung Lau, Lily Li,
Directors : Ricky Lau,

Street performer Cho (Lau) is hoping to raise money to study martial arts. Soon, he becomes friends with Yan (Shek) the son of a rich man who was robbed. The duo set off to help catch the ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Cristina Lay, Stelio Candelli, Ajita Wilson,
Directors : Edoardo Mulargia,

Girls kept prisoner under appalling conditions to dig emeralds for an evil tyrant are rescued by revolutionaries disguised as soldiers.

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 : Joe Don Baker, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Conny Van Dyke,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison.

Actors : Franco Nero, Licinia Lentini, Mario Maranzana, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Rajesh Narain lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in British India along with his brother, Brijesh, Bhabi, and a niece, Munni. He attends college and has a sweetheart in wealthy Kamini ...

Actors : Albert Salmi, Woody Strode, Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Chuck Workman,

Adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.

Actors : Al Cliver, Clara Hopf, Corrado Olmi, Federico Boido,
Directors : Giorgio Mariuzzo,

Tommy is an innocent cavalry officer who falls in love with a beautiful Apache woman (Yara Kewa) after rescuing her from a nasty gun smuggler named Honest Jeremy. When Jeremy and his gang find Tommy, gruesome violence ensues.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Tony Kendall, Monica Teuber, William Berger,
Directors : Ernst Ritter von Theumer,

Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.

Actors : James Ryan, Daniel DuPlessis, Charlotte Michelle, Norman Coombes,
Directors : Ivan Hall,

Two former ranking figures of the Axis powers schedule a deadly martial arts tournament in an isolated locale. The two rivals then race to assemble the top competitors from around the world...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Stanley Baker,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Experienced British spy must retrieve a defecting Soviet scientist from Turkey. When a pretty female innocent bystander gets kidnapped by mistake by his enemies, he feels responsible and decides to help her as well.

Actors : Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen, Roberta Collins, Maria De Aragon,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

An insurance investigator battles Dr. Tsu and her sexy all-girl army.

Actors : Morgan Woodward, Bo Hopkins, Timothy Bottoms, Susan George,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Cosie Costa, Ray Milland, Peter Graves,
Directors : Larry Spiegel,

A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer ...

Actors : Phillip Ko, Wei Tung, Cecilia Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

In a small town somewhere in 19th-century China, two brothers, each using their own particular style of martial arts, defeat a bully of a fighter who is terrorizing the town. In the ensuing...

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 : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Chen Chi Lin, Lung Ti,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A con artist uses Kung Fu to swindle villagers for money by pretending to be possessed by angry gods. However, when the villagers are later threatened by bandits he must use the same skills for good.

Actors : Feng Ku, Yue Wong, Angie Chiu, Lung Ti,
Directors : Chung Sun,

The Kung-Fu Instructor was director Sun Cheng's homage to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where Ti Lung plays a righteous weapon instructor. It's the first time a Shaw Brother's director uses a ...

Actors : Yung Henry Yu, Chung-Hsin Huang, Ofelia Yu, Ching Chen,
Directors : Jimmy L. Pascual,

As Jen Ko (Henry Yu Yung) has completed his training at the military academy, he is entrusted by his superiors at once with a secret mission. He should take in the city Lung Tau the gang ...