Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Gene Kelly, Evel Knievel, Red Buttons, Lauren Hutton,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico. What Evel doesn't know is that they're planning to kill him and use his body to ship cocaine into the U.S. His ...

Actors : Claude Gagnon, Masafumi Suzuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yôko Ichiji,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Takuma "Terry" Tsurugi returns. In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In a vein similar to James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.

Actors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fat Chung, Ha Huang, Lung Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Villager Bold Cheung (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo), known for his willingness to do anything courageous, bold or daring, becomes a target by the evil rich Master Tam (Huang Ha), who committed ...

Actors : Ping-Yu Chang, Jackie Chan, Chung-Erh Lung, Kang Chin,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie witnesses his father's death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique. Jackie vows to become a Shaolin monk and avenge his death (not very ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Influential Arab diplomat becomes the target of numerous assassination attempts, when he announces his plan to make peace with Israel by letting them join the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Actors : Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, Michael Miller, William Lucking,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Doc and the Amazing Five battle Captain Seas and "the green death" for control of a fabulous resource.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Dyan Cannon, Omar Sharif, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars plan an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector but the corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.

Actors : Imtiaz Khan, Zeenat Aman, Vijay Arora, Dharmendra,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they learned as children.

Actors : Chih-Ping Chiang, Jackie Chan, Chung-Erh Lung, Jeong-Nam Kim,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

A young man poses as "the Whip King" and collects the reward for a bandit he has seen killed by a famous bounty hunter. He must now learn Kung Fu if he is to live up to this new persona and conquer the enemies he has inherited.

Actors : James Mason, Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Terence Young,

A brutal drug trader takes his violent revenge after his wife is captured by a drug boss.

Actors : Woody Strode, Henry Silva, Adolfo Celi, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom he gives up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son,...

Actors : Liza Greer, Sylvia Anderson, Jacqulin Cole, Lieu Chinh,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione, Robert Lamoureux, Jean Lefebvre,
Directors : Robert Lamoureux,

1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can ...

Actors : Dean Shek, Siu Tin Yuen, Hung Lieh Chen, Jackie Chan,

Young Jackie was intrigued by Kung-Fu since an early age, but his father strictly forbade its practice. One day, he meets an old beggar who offers to teach Jackie how to fight. Jackie grows...

Actors : Gloria Delaney, Jimmy Lynch, Lady Reed, Rudy Ray Moore,
Directors : Cliff Roquemore,

A flabby black comedian defends his community from attacks by stereotypical whites.

Actors : Puiu Calinescu, Sebastian Papaiani, Dem Radulescu, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.

Actors : Gino Santercole, Tomas Milian, Laura Belli, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Georges Géret, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.