Best Action movies of 1971

Actors : Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Actors : Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Charles Gray,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy,
Directors : Don Taylor,

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson,
Directors : Don Siegel,

When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Cleavon Little, Victoria Medlin, Barry Newman, Dean Jagger,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops.

Actors : Bruce Lee, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista, Maria Yi,

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon,
Directors : Terence Young,

In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift from Japan to the U.S. President, prompting a man hunt to retrieve it.

Actors : Chun Shih, Billy Chan, Ying Bai, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

Actors : Simon Oakland, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Don Medford,

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Actors : Akira Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Kawase, Toshie Kimura, Toshio Shiba,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Banno,

From Earth's pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.

Actors : Judith Brown, Brooke Mills, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.

Actors : Peter Jeffrey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ...

Actors : Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sidney Poitier,
Directors : Don Medford,

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.

Actors : Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott,

A former getaway driver from Chicago (George C. Scott) has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job, involving driving a dangerous ...

Actors : Alexander Knox, Sven-Bertil Taube, Patrick Allen, Barbara Parkins,
Directors : Geoffrey Reeve,

Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do ...