Best Action movies of 1974

Actors : Blue Demon, Jorge Russek, Santo, Sasha Montenegro,
Directors : Miguel M. Delgado,

El Santo and Blue Demon team up with a couple of detectives to stop the grandson of Dr Frankenstein from conducting fiendish brain transplant experiments.

Actors : Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Ulla Jacobsson, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.

Actors : Billy Robinson, Verne Gagne, Edward Asner, Elaine Giftos,
Directors : James A. Westman,

Promoting the world of professional wrestling at the expense of the plot itself, Frank Bass (Ed Asner) takes a stand and defends what he thinks is right. Gamblers, mobsters, unscrupulous ...

Actors : Sonja Jeannine, Hua Yueh, Hui-Ling Liu, Diane Drube,

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their ...

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 : Ni Tien, Wu Chi Liu, Chun Yang, Ping Chen,
Directors : Han Hsiang Li,

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Dennis Safren, Dobie Gray, Lang Jeffries,

Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.

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 : Annazette Chase, Philip Michael Thomas, Robert Burr, Richard Lawson,

To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

Actors : Ediz Hun, Bülent Kayabas, Filiz Akin, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Zeynep lives with his old father. She has lost her ability to speak because of an accident. She needs an operation in order to be able to talk again. One day, five prison fugitives come to ...

Actors : Walter Kohut, Eva Mattes, Michael Degen, Charly Wierczejewski,
Directors : Roland Klick,

Willi is a street kid trying to make a living with petty crimes. He befriends both a journalist who wants to help him make an honest living and an older petty criminal looking for a quick buck.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Ann Sothern, Elizabeth Ashley, Jim Kelly,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Various factions are fighting each other to gain possession of a very special statue. The statue itself is not worth much, the needles inside it are the true prize. These "golden needles" ...

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Kuan Tai Chen, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When the "godfather of the kung-fu film" Chang Cheh decided to tell their stories with Alexander Fu Sheng, Chen Kuan-tai, and Chi Kuan-chun in the roles, it was cause for celebration. This ...

Actors : Betty Ting Pei, George Lazenby, Ing-Sik Whang, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Stoner, an Australian cop, has been investigating the spread of a mysterious addictive drug that acts like an aphrodisiac and a hallucenogen on anyone who takes it. When his own sister ...

Actors : Paula Kelly, Lino Ventura, 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 : Tamayo Mitsukawa, Michiyo Bandô, Etsuko Shiomi, Hisako Tanaka,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese...

Actors : Lieux Dressler, John Martino, Claudia Jennings, Paul Carr,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, George Murdock, Max Julien, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

A rare blaxploitation classic starring Vonette McGee & Max Julien, Thomasine & Bushrod was intended as a counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde. This pair of thieves, who operate in the American ...

Actors : Kongara Jaggaiah, Krishna Ghattamaneni, Vijaya Nirmala, Chandramohan,
Directors : V. Ramachandra Rao,

Cinematci version of the life of the legendary freedom fighter.

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Gastone Moschin, Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

A cop is consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook in question is Marseilles who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement.