Best Revenge movies of 1970s

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Kimberly Beck, Robert Carradine, Derrel Maury,
Directors : Rene Daalder,

A high school transfer student, pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies, resorts to murder to reclaim the school from oppression, and later turns against the students wanting to fill the vacuum of their oppressors.

Actors : Akemi Negishi, Yôko Hori, Ryôko Ema, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Joe Don Baker, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : Jack Elam, Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

After she is raped and her husband murdered, a woman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can get her revenge on the three outlaws responsible.

Actors : Richard Harris, Percy Herbert, Henry Wilcoxon, John Huston,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper exacts revenge on his fellow companions who abandoned him in dangerous Indian territory.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Marlène Jobert, Jill Ireland, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : René Clément,

A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

Actors : George Murdock, Chuck Norris, Terry O'Connor, Don Gentry,
Directors : Don Hulette,

Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

Actors : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

A docile black law student is possessed by a 1940's mobster in mid-70's New Orleans. The mobster seeks revenge upon the people who killed him and his sister.

Actors : Rez Cortez, Ruel Vernal, Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge.

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Max Baer Jr., Alan Vint, Cheryl Waters,
Directors : Richard Compton,

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Romolo Valli, Shelley Winters, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Robert F. Lyons, Patricia Quinn, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A former bank robber searches for his double crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after a 6 year old girl.

Actors : Michel Constantin, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Sergio Sollima,

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Daniel Ivernel, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Rip Torn, Stella Stevens, Jim Brown,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.

Actors : Nora Miao, James Tien, Yin-Ju Lin, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A dishonored student of the Dragon Fist Sect seeks revenge for the death of his teacher.

Actors : Essy Persson, Vincent Price, Carl Rigg, Hilary Heath,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

In Elizabethan England, a wicked lord massacres nearly all the members of a coven of witches, earning the enmity of their leader, Oona. Oona calls up a magical servant, a "banshee", to ...

Actors : Ping-Yu Chang, Jackie Chan, Chung-Erh Lung, Kang Chin,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie witnesses his father's death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique. Jackie vows to become a Shaolin monk and avenge his death (not very ...