Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Masaru Shiga, Janet Hatta, Eiko Matsuda,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A tough-as-nails cop from Okinawa investigates a savage murder in Tokyo's nightlife district. Originally dismissed as a bumpkin, he soon proves more savvy than the local police.

Actors : Ching Tien, Feng Yu, Mu Chu, Lung Ti,

Wu Sung, a military swordmaster, is acused of murdering his adulterous sister-in-law and a thug, and sent to exile in Meng Chou. At the prison camp, Shih En, son of the camp commander, ...

Actors : Yao Hsiao, Feng Ku, Lung Ti, Lily Li,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Actors : Lee de Broux, Jon Shank, Michael Pataki, Paul Carr,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less) who are after the women in the company.

Actors : Om Prakash, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Preeti lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with her widower dad, Heerachand, and is a medical student. While on a trip to Simla, she meets and falls in love with a Casanova, Prem, and...

Actors : Milo O'Shea, Frank Converse, Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker,
Directors : Cliff Robertson,

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.

Actors : James Westmoreland, Anitra Ford, Alan Landers, Anne Randall,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

The sleazy and dangerous adventures of a gorgeous female private detective.

Actors : Christopher George, Richard Ely, James Luisi, Jim Brown,
Directors : William Witney,

In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Actors : Brioni Farrell, Adam West, Rod Taylor, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic,
Directors : Stole Jankovic,

Partisans attacked the ship, with lots of people and the Jews held by the Germans. After the release and attack, there is yet another partisan attack on the convoy of Germans. Partisans few...

Actors : Gary Waddell, Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Actors : George 'Buck' Flower, Steven Hodge, Fred Finkleloffe, John Tull,
Directors : Bethel Buckalew,

A boxer's manager pays a prostitute to make his boxer's nights hot, and endless. Not so strange, considering all the dirty deals the manager has with the local mafia. The strong champion ...

Actors : Chia-Hui Liu, Yi Ling Chen, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When the ruling dynasty in China sends soldiers to destroy the Shaolin Temple, students use their martial arts to defend the school.

Actors : Yi Chang, Shao Chun Chao, Bruce Li, Kang Chin,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a...

Actors : David Hyry, J. Craig Collicut, Carson Jackson, Jan Sisk,

Mayhem starts when a gang of bikers is accused of a sadistic rape in a small town.

Actors : Robert Fuller, Guy Stockwell, BarBara Luna, Woody Strode,
Directors : Robert Gordon,

Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.

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

This 1971 top ten hit - a post-Chinese Revolution action adventure of rebels battling warlords -- is another great example of its famed director, stars, and kung-fu choreographer's talen and charisma.

Actors : Deep Roy, Maribel Martín, Christian Anders, Dunja Rajter,

Actors : Luke Askew, Tyne Daly, Larry Bishop, Don Stroud,
Directors : Lee Madden,

Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.

Actors : Raf Baldassarre, David Dreyer, Lloyd Battista, Tony Anthony,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

While escorting a Spanish princess back to her homeland, a wisecracking gunfighter does battle with such foes as Vikings, Moors, barbarians, evil spirits, a raging bull, and a maniacal Shakespeare-quoting hunchback.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Jenny Tseng, Hsia Hui Wu, Sheng Fu,

International favorite Alexander Fu Sheng cemented his stardom in this, the fourth film in his esteemed director's "Shaolin" series. Fu gives both a great dramatic and kung-fu performance ...