Best Action movies of 1969

Actors : Hugo Carvana, Maurício do Valle, Othon Bastos, Odete Lara,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio ...

Actors : Feng Tien, Chiao Chiao, Chia Essie Lin, Yu Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

After defeating The Long-Armed Devil and his armies, our nubbed hero has been living in retirement as a farmer, but circumstances causes him to come out of retirement and take on The Eight ...

Actors : Barry Sullivan, Silvia Pinal, Arthur Kennedy, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Alan Dobie, Arthur Hill, Anne Heywood,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.

Actors : Orson Welles, Tomas Milian, José Torres, John Steiner,
Directors : Giulio Petroni,

The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, David Carradine, Robert Walker Jr., Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

In New Mexico, looking for his son's murderer, Ben Kane takes a deputy marshal's job and runs into young Billy Young who's on the lam.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Actors : Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, Maria Rohm, George Sanders,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.

Actors : Boris Dvornik, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Relja Basic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

In order to check German offensive, Partizans send elite team of explosive experts to blow up strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost ...

Actors : John 'Bud' Cardos, Scott Brady, Russ Tamblyn, Robert Dix,
Directors : Al Adamson,

The "Satans" are a very cruel biker gang led by Anchor. The gang goes to a diner in the middle of nowhere in the California desert where they begin to terrorize Lew and his patrons and his ...

Actors : Michael Rennie, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Marco Guglielmi,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Italian and German scouts race towards Alexandria. Mussolini has...

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Minori Terada, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt ...

Actors : Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Gianni Garko, Aldo Canti,
Directors : Gianfranco Parolini,

U.S. Lieutenant Glenn Hoffmann and a team of commandos go behind enemy lines to steal Nazi documents from a safe inside a well-guarded German HQ villa in Italy.

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Yoshiko Sakuma, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces ...

Actors : Yul Brynner, Charles Gray, Edward Woodward, John Barrie,
Directors : Sam Wanamaker,

U.S. Agent Novak and Scotland Yard Officer Thompson go undercover to infiltrate a counterfeit organization.

Actors : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Miao Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an ...

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Masumi Okada, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

A journalist is saved by a giant submarine captained by a 200 year old man who takes him to an underwater paradise city where no one ages. That's when monsters and mutants sent by the captain's rival, a 200 year old scientist, attack.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Feri Cansel, Esen Püsküllü, Meltem Mete,

Byzantine Prince kidnaps a governor and plans to marry Serbian Princess to create a rift within Ottoman Empire. Malkocoglu is sent to save the governor and prevent the marriage.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Sid Haig, Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos,
Directors : Jack Hill,

Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP.

Actors : Wolfgang Preiss, Claudio Undari, Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Irish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of twenty-eight slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next, ...