Best Action movies of 1970s

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

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

Actors : George Peppard, Christine Belford, Michael Sarrazin, Cliff Potts,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Meng Lo, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Kuan-Tai Chan, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Mariette Hartley, Michael Callan, Stefanie Powers, 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 : Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Kay Lenz, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

In the 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.

Actors : Ralph Waite, William Smithers, Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...