Best Action movies of 1974

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Actors : Roger Moore, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Linda Cristal,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Hope Lange, Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.

Actors : Robert Webber, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Warren Oates,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Pam Grier, Terry Carter,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Actors : George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Charlton Heston, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Herb Edelman, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

Actors : Patty Shepard, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Deogratias Huerta,
Directors : Marcello Fondato,

After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Jack Kruschen, Loretta Swit, James Caan,
Directors : Richard Rush,

San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.

Actors : Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford...

Actors : Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, John Wayne,
Directors : John Sturges,

Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.

Actors : Richard Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Actors : Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

Apelike aliens build a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the true Godzilla may not be powerful enough to destroy it.

Actors : Clive Revill, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Caine,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.