Best Action movies of 1972

Actors : Peter De Anda, Raymond St. Jacques, Percy Rodrigues, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Mark Warren,

Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black ...

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 : Hung Pai, Fei Meng, Lin Lin Li, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

A gifted but proud young martial arts student injures and kills an opponent. In retaliation , his father is killed. The young student vows revenge and begins to prepare for his epic face-off.

Actors : Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Aimee Iacobescu, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Ed Cambridge, Billy Dee Williams, Celia Milius,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.

Actors : Gina Romand, Roberto Cañedo, Santo, Anel,
Directors : Miguel M. Delgado,

A mad female scientist needs Santo's blood for a youth serum; and she has Frankenstein's reliable old monster to help her get it.

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 : Ching Tien, Kuan Tai Chen, Mu Chu, Li Ching,

Chen Kuan-tai exuded incredible power on screen, which his directors used to great advantage in this fight-filled follow-up to the smash hit The Boxer From Shantung -- which culminates in ...

Actors : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Yi Chang, Kyung-Ah Oh, Ying Bai, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Tien arrives in town looking to exact revenge on Ling for abandoning her pregnant sister and thus driving said sister to commit suicide. Although Tien agrees to help Ling take down the ...

Actors : Fujio Suga, Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ...

Actors : Atilla Ergün, Cüneyt Arkin, Bora Ayanoglu, Atif Kaptan,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

Mehmed the Conqueror sends Kara Murat to stop Prince of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler aka Vlad III Dracula, the historical inspiration for the vampire Count Dracula.

Actors : Hee-ra Kim, No-shik Park, Yeon-kyeong Yu,
Directors : No-shik Park,

Ex-convict, Jeep--who earned his nickname by stealing a jeep--goes to the aid of his old mentor who is now running an orphanage. His orphanage is in danger of being sold out from under him to make way for a casino to be built on its site

Actors : David Chiang, Chung Wang, Kuan Tai Chen, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

This prime example of director/co-writer Chang Cheh's mastery takes place right after the Korean War, as a kung-fu master, combat instructor, explosives expert, and missle specialist ...

Actors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri, Vanisri,
Directors : Rao C.S.R.,

When a Hindu Hermit complains to Bhagwan Shri Kishan that his prayers have been interrupted and he has been humiliated, the later decides to use his Sudarshan Chakra to behead the culprit, ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Asha Parekh, Tun Tun, Dharmendra,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Lakah Singh gives his life of a Dacoit and lives a happy life with his wife Champa when his son Jaswant becomes three years old, Champa becomes ill with cancer and circumstances force him to be again a Dacoit.

Actors : Kostas Karagiorgis, Hristos Nomikos, Rita Bensousan, Eleni Anousaki,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Actors : Jalal Pishvaian, Saeed Rad, Shahrzad, Vejesta,
Directors : Kamran Shirdel,

Amir is a foul guy who has killed a man in Abadan, he returns to Tehran and continuing his misdeeds trying to convince his girlfriend Zarry to escape with him to the south of Iran.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Bruce Davison, Daria Halprin, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : John Flynn,

An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.

Actors : Mumtaz, Helen, Sanjay Khan, Rajendra Nath,
Directors : Devendra Goel,

Young Deepak Roy accidentally shoots his childhood friend, Suraj, and believing him to be dead, runs away from home. Quite unknown to him, Suraj has survived and is living with Deepak's mom...