Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Teresa Kelly,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The...

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia

Actors : Candice Roman, Anitra Ford, Teda Bracci, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ramesh Sippy,

Shaan tells the story of DCP Shiv Kumar an honest, brave and upright police man. He live in the country with his wife, a daughter and two brothers Ravi and Vijay who are con men to the ...

Actors : Baldwyn Dakile, Angelo Infanti, Bud Spencer, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Steno,

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell...

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Joe Santos, Burt Reynolds, John P. Ryan,
Directors : Buzz Kulik,

New York private eye Shamus McCoy likes girls, drink and gambling, but by the look of his flat business can't be too hot. So an offer of $10,000 to finds some diamonds stolen in a daring ...

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Robert Middleton, Bud Spencer, Bill Vanders,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

Two nice guys, a wrestler (Bud Spencer) and an Ice-cream vendor (Giuliano Gemma) are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is "Sorriso". With the ...

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 : Chuck Norris, George Murdock, Terry O'Connor, Don Gentry,
Directors : Don Hulette,

Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

Actors : Ferruccio Amendola, Bud Spencer, Claudio Undari, Cary Guffey,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

Bud Spencer is, as always, getting into fights - especially after getting a job as sheriff. He's looking after a small boy who's actually an extraterrestrial with special abilities thus the military wants him. Bud's got his hands full.

Actors : Nora Miao, Jackie Chan, Jeong-Nam Kim, Yung-Kuo Li,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie Chan stars as the young warrior Hsu Yiu Fong. Hsu has been entrusted with the book of the "Art of the Snake and Crane," after the mysterious disappearance of the eight Shaolin ...

Actors : Neda Spasojevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

A man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Claude Dauphin, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV ...

Actors : George Peppard, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Charles Bronson, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

Actors : Jim Backus, Ann Sothern, Stuart Whitman, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, ...

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.

Actors : Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of ...

Actors : Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Georgi Zhzhyonov,
Directors : Aleksandr Mitta,

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Actors : Frank Thornton, John Inman, Trevor Bannister, Mollie Sugden,
Directors : Bob Kellett,

The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka while the department is being remodeled.