Best Action movies of 1960s

Actors : Milly Vitale, Jack Palance, Guy Rolfe, Austin Willis,
Directors : Rudolph Maté,

Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley, ...

Actors : Hôsei Komatsu, Noriko Matsumoto, Rokkô Toura, Kei Yamamoto,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

The vengeful son of a murdered feudal lord meets a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime in this unusual animated film where still manga drawings are accompanied with sound.

Actors : Isao Kimura, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Chieko Naniwa, Wakaba Irie,
Directors : Tomu Uchida,

Actors : Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Martin Landau, Peter Graves,
Directors : Paul Stanley,

Actors : Bin Amatsu, Keiko Awaji, Takuya Fujioka, Kiyoshi Hitomi,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange ...

Actors : Iurie Darie, Puiu Calinescu, Jean Constantin, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Actors : Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Masayuki Mori,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Jelínek, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Jirí Sequens,

The assasination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Kam Tong, Jack Palance, Fernando Lamas,
Directors : Michael D. Moore,

Chinese villagers hire a mercenary and his team of karate experts to help rid them of a gangster and his henchman who are threatening their island.

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Takashi Shimura, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Seiichirô Uchikawa,

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of ...

Actors : Michael Forest, Walter Maslow, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Actors : Diane McBain, Sherry Jackson, Ross Hagen, Jeremy Slate,
Directors : Maury Dexter,

Driven by jealousy, the jilted leader of a female motorcycle gang instigates a sadistic reign of terror against her ex-lover and his new bride.

Actors : Nadia Marlowa, Roger Browne, Eduardo Fajardo, Dominique Boschero,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

Argoman is practically invincible with powers beyond the scope of mortal man. Who is Sir Reginald Hoover, he seems to know what mission Argoman is involved with? Will Jenabell become the ...

Actors : Doug McClure, Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Joanie Sommers,
Directors : Jack Arnold,

Casey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed record. Wealthy playboy ...

Actors : Bunjaku Han, Takeo Chii, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Toshiya Fujita,

Five freewheeling friends conjure up a plan to rob 30 million yen from a religious movement.

Actors : James Mason, Rip Torn, Neville Brand, Kate Manx,
Directors : Leslie Stevens,

In 1718 a recently freed family of indentured workers inherits the small uninhabited Bull Island off the Carolina coast. The family consist of husband and wife, one son, and a second son ...

Actors : Sujit Kumar, Kumkum, Dharmendra, Mala Sinha,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

Shortly after independence India faces terrorists attacks in Assam, resulting in many deaths and casualties. A group of concerned citizens, who are not connected with the Government, decide...

Actors : R.S. Manohar, Jayalalitha J, Nagesh, M.N. Nambiar,
Directors : B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu,

Enslaved convicts for treason plan escape but get caught by pirates and work for them before gaining their support and fighting back their country's authoritarian rule.

Actors : Naoko Kubo, Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Another subversion of audience expectations has Kobayashi acting somewhat cowardly in the snow-bound final showdown, an unheard-of trait in a ninkyô yakuza hero. Also with Tamio Kawaji as a sword-wielding assassin in Zero-cape-and -hat(!)