Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

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 : Karen Valentine, Susan Clark, Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Bruce Bilson,

When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.

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 : 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 : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

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 : 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 : Mariette Hartley, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan, Lee Van Cleef,
Directors : George McCowan,

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the ...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Elliott Gould, Herbert Lom, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Anthony Page,

Whilst traveling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realise a passenger seems to have been kidnapped off their train, but, no other passenger aside from themselves, recalls her.

Actors : Claude Dauphin, Peter O'Toole, 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 : Gloria Hendry, Jim Kelly, Eric Laneuville, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.

Actors : Pai Wei, Biao Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Tak-Hing Kwan,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons and is accused of raping the head of that school's ...

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 : 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 : Meng Lo, Kuan-Tai Chan, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Terence Hill, Dominic Barto, Yanti Somer,
Directors : Enzo Barboni,

In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.

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.

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

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