Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Vinod Khanna, Jeetendra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Ravi Chopra,

A dedicated railway employee's plan to introduce an express train result in sabotage.

Actors : Eva Bender, Altan Günbay, Kartal Tibet, Zeki Alasya,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

The story of Tarkan and his friends efforts to rescue Atilla's kidnapped son.

Actors : Ian Mune, Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Warren Oates,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between leftist guerillas and the New Zealand government. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, ...

Actors : Ken Metcalfe, Jeannie Bell, Pat Anderson, Stan Shaw,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.

Actors : Kathy O'Dare, Christopher Norris, Ron Howard, Brad David,
Directors : Charles B. Griffith,

Darlene's into going fast, Hoover's into Darlene, but when they both get into a red-hot race car, the reckless fun accelerates into a trunk-full of hot pursuits.

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Renzo Palmer, John Saxon, Tomas Milian, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Luigi Maietto (Chinaman) escapes from prison he then orders two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonal led to his being jailed. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but lives. The ...

Actors : Zouzou, Elliott Gould, Joss Ackland, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In 1948, an assortment of shady characters are searching for Nazi loot, sunken off the coast of Peru.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Paul Rogers, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Actors : Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Rochefort, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Philippe Labro,

Bart Cordell, is unanimously considered as a daddy's boy and an insignificant playboy. So, when he suddenly becomes head of his father's financial empire following his death, nobody ...

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Actors : Julie Parrish, Simmy Bow, Hal Reed, Byron Mabe,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : James Fargo,

In 1948, at the U.S. embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential American senator.

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Seiko Saburi, Misuzu Ôta, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

Three new students at a super strict girls' school face off against the oppressive administration, a corrupt politician and a sadistic student discipline brigade.

Actors : Bobby Alto, Joe Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Joe Pesci,
Directors : Ralph De Vito,

Neighborhood kid goes to work for the Mafia as a debt collector.

Actors : Shi-Kwan Yen, Feng Ku, Siu-Hung Leung, Kar-Yung Lau,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

A young man decides to learn Kung Fu to avenge the death of his father, a peaceful shopkeeper who was murdered by Manchurian gangsters for not paying protection money. At first he is ...

Actors : Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and...

Actors : Kyoko Yoshizawa, Shintarô Katsu, Yasuhiro Koume, Kiwako Taichi,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Forrest Tucker, Lurene Tuttle, Leif Garrett,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Buford Pusser's last days as Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee in 1970 and his subsequent death in 1974.