Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

Actors : Judith Brown, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier, Roberta Collins,
Directors : Gerardo de Leon,

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Shin'ichi Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played by a comic actor in drag) rather than...

Actors : Bryan Brown, John Hargreaves, Graham Kennedy, John Jarratt,
Directors : Tom Jeffrey,

In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.

Actors : Shirley Washington, Trina Parks, Edna Richardson, Bettye Sweet,
Directors : William Witney,

Syreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow.

Actors : Barry Newman, Dolph Sweet, John Vernon, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Michael Tuchner,

Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a ...

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Yu Wang,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

Actors : Eiko Masuyama, Makio Inoue, Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi,

While attempting to win the affections of a beautiful rival, a master thief risks death to learn the secret and intentions of a wealthy and seemingly immortal, but certainly ruthless, recluse.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Dobrescu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Kara Hui, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Lieh Lo,

The monk Hung Wen-Ting fights against the evil priest White Lotus.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Linda Evans, Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin,

Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.

Actors : Keizô Kanie, Kazuko Inano, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as prostitutes, and a notorious thief who plans to rob the mint.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Jean Tissier, Ottavia Piccolo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is ...

Actors : Betty Pei Ti, Jackie Chan, Charlie Chin, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Incriminating evidence against a gang is left in a cab when a gang member dies in it. The gang chases the innocent cab driver, who receives help from the dead gangster's sister - a tough police woman.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Dennis Hopper, Frank Thring, Jack Thompson,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Eva Bender, Bilal Inci, Kartal Tibet,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

Atilla the Hun gives a Silver Saddle to Altar as a gift. The intention of Kostok is the get rid of the Huns and seize the valuable saddle. Little Tarkan who is compulsory abandoned by his foster-mother in a cave, his cry attracts the attention of a wolf and the wolf magnifies Tarkan like his own cub.

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Lieh Lo, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom ...

Actors : Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama, Ken Yoshizawa, Yuki Aresa,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Biao Yuen, Billy Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Knockabout is Sammo HungÂ's (TVÂ's Martial Law, The Legend Of Zu) brilliant cinematic achievement at merging comedy with kung fu. His meticulous blending of the two ingredients is vividly demonstrated in this film.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi, Sanae Ôhori, Asao Uchida,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and ...