Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Clint Eastwood, Jack Cassidy, George Kennedy,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Claude Akins, Severn Darden,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

One decade after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.

Actors : Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar,
Directors : George A. Romero,

The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson,
Directors : Don Siegel,

When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Treat Williams, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Actors : Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Actors : Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Sam J. Jones,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, George Kennedy,

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Linda Cristal,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Bradford Dillman, Harry Guardino,
Directors : James Fargo,

Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Clint Eastwood, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul,
Directors : Ted Post,

Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race.

Actors : Hope Lange, Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.