Best Action Comedy movies of 1970s

Actors : Kathy O'Dare, Christopher Norris, Ron Howard, Brad David,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

Darlene's into going fast, Hoover's into Darlene, but when they both get into a red-hot race car, the reckless fun accelerates into a trunk-full of hot pursuits.

Actors : Saira Banu, Sulakshana Pandit, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Prakash Mehra,

Popular Indian leading man Amitabh Bachchan stars in HERA PHERI, a campy Bollywood musical melodrama about faded friendships and family secrets. Best friends Vijay (Bachchan) and Ajay (...

Actors : Zouzou, Elliott Gould, Joss Ackland, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of ...

Actors : Shi-Kwan Yen, Feng Ku, Siu-Hung Leung, Kar-Yung Lau,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

A young man decides to learn Kung Fu to avenge the death of his father, a peaceful shopkeeper who was murdered by Manchurian gangsters for not paying protection money. At first he is ...

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Michelle Yim, Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.

Actors : Kara Hui, Ho Hsiao, Chia-Liang Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Siu Tin Yuen, Linda Lin, Shun-Yee Yuen,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from ...

Actors : Lynn Redgrave, Horst Janson, Eli Wallach, Franco Nero,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A self-proclaimed Russian prince, a Mexican bandit and a radical Irish female journalist team up during the Mexican Revolution to find fortune and notoriety.

Actors : Asher Tzarfati, Shmuel Wolf, Lily Avidan, Tzila Karney,
Directors : Amos Sefer,

Incited by a disillusioned young man who has decided to flee from civilization, a group of 4 people go searching for freedom and happiness on an isolated island . When their boat goes ...

Actors : Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Ajit,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents ...

Actors : Louis Quinn, Tony Young, Joyce Jillson, Thomas Reardon,
Directors : Ed Forsyth,

Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with ...

Actors : Lois Ayres, Allan Baker, John Ballee, Billy Schwartz,
Directors : Lance D. Hayes,

A remote monastery in China has trained a talking gorilla, King Kung Fu, in the ancient art of kung fu. Having mastered his fighting skills, King Kung Fu is sent to America to demonstrate ...

Actors : Meg Lam, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Chun Yang, Roy Chiao,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

An apprentice farmer (Sammo Hung) ventures to the city and helps his family battle a gang of thugs.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Joan Collins, Art Carney, Farrah Fawcett,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up $5 million. A hotshot investigator Decker (Grodin) and a charming model (Fawcett) come in to check it out.

Actors : William Smith, Joe Namath, Jennifer Billingsley, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Seymour Robbie,

Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her ...

Actors : Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Fernando Rey, Stella Stevens,

A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.

Actors : Tara Strohmeier, Miles Watkins, Jocelyn Jones, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

Explosive drama and action when two sexy girls go on a bank robbing binge.

Actors : Skip E. Lowe, John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Joseph Carlo,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

A black hairstylist has sex with his female customers, and tries to keep the Mafia from taking over his business.

Actors : James Tien, Hark-On Fung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Sing Chen,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

The Iron-Fisted Monk marks the directorial debut of Sammo Hung (Painted Faces, TVÂ's Martial Law), who used the opportunity to push the envelop in kung fu action films.