Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Meng Hua Ho,

Chen Kuan-tai battles assassins that use a deadly, beheading weapon to kill dissidents. Based on true events, the film's weapon was completely fabricated because in real life, no one ever ...

Actors : Ching Wong, Jackie Chan, Yang Kao, Qiu Yuen,
Directors : Mu Chu,

Historical movie, set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII, in which a group of Chinese rebels tries to oust the Japanese forces from a small town. Jackie Chan is one of the ...

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu, Chien Sun,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three North Shaolin teachers (Lu Feng, Chang Sheng, and Sun Chien) are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "romanian dream".

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Cornel Wilde, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and ...

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 : Mako Midori, Shintarô Katsu, Kô Nishimura, Mikio Narita,
Directors : Yoshio Inoue,

After extracting information by raping a ghost, Hanzo uncovers a plot among high officials to steal the shogunate's gold and loan it out to the poor.

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Ian Bannen, Barry Foster,
Directors : David Wickes,

Cinematic spin-off from the popular TV series. Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of ...

Actors : Yu-Li Lan, Ling Lung Yu, Jackie Chan, Yu Wang,
Directors : Wei Lo,

Mei Xing He is a local hero, as known as "Killer Meteors", his secret weapon makes him invincible. However, when Hua Wu Bin, another powerful local character seeks his assistance, Mei Xing He will face the deadliest challenge of his life.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do ...

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Gandhimathi, Bhagyaraj, Goundamani,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

The movie revolves around the struggle and vulnerability of 16-year old Mayil (Sridevi) when in love.

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Aleksandar Bercek,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Prle and Tihi, being the only surviving members of their resistance group, had been forced to leave Nazi-occupied Belgrade and join Partisans in country. In Summer of 1944 somebody is ...

Actors : Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Klaus Kinski, Chen Lee, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.

Actors : Aachi Manorama, R.S. Manohar, K. Balaji, Ashokan,
Directors : R. Krishnamurthy,

A village bumpkin poses as a Mafia don to uncover the gang.

Actors : Charles Aznavour, Robert Culp, James Coburn, Susannah York,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

When an industrialist's wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman's ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gliders.

Actors : David Chiang, Mario Milano, Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching,

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Denholm Elliott, Ken Hutchison,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

Second cinematic spin-off from the popular 70's police series. Regan & Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.