Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Another iconoclastic work from the action auteur Chang Cheh, and winner of Honourable Mention for Dramatic Feature at the 13th Golden Horse Awards, 7-Man Army retells the legend of seven ...

Actors : Alberto Farnese, Anna Cardini, Tomas Milian, David Hemmings,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Actors : Timothy Brown, Pamela Collins, Phyllis Davis, Ellaraino,
Directors : Michel Levesque,

Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who ...

Actors : George Lazenby, Ben Carruthers, Robin Hunter, Rudolph Walker,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

A lifelong mercenary commander and weapons expert played by George Lazenby is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Memduh Ün, Suna Yildizoglu, Esref Kolçak,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Kei Tomiyama, Shûsei Nakamura, Yôko Asagami, Gorô Naya,

The Comet Empire approaches, and the Yamato is ready to face them. But this will be the last battle for both sides.

Actors : Alena Johnston, Sabine Sun, Malisa Longo, Rosanna Yanni,
Directors : Terence Young,

A story of a tribe of Amazons in the age of swords and chariots. The film opens with the tribe holding physical contests to select a new queen. Since there are no men in the tribe, they ...

Actors : Diane Keller, Michael D. White, Jason Williams, Bill Osco,
Directors : Walter R. Cichy,

Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : Robert Lansing, Anita Ekberg, Cornelia Sharpe, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Robert Michael Lewis,

Security Hazards Expert Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.

Actors : Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche, Gordon Pinsent, George Peppard,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

In 1970s Los Angeles, honest cop Vince Newman struggles to win the battle against crime and against corruption in his own department.

Actors : Shirô Itô, Yûki Meguro, Eiko Ezaki, Maria Anzai,
Directors : Takashi Tsuboshima,

Though his father's partner Jigen wants him to take charge of the Lupin Empire and the obsessed detective Zenigata wants him behind bars, Lupin III is only concerned about being with the beautiful (and treacherous) lady thief Fujiko.

Actors : Gabriella Giorgelli, Klaus Kinski, Giuseppe Cardillo, Paolo Casella,
Directors : Mario Costa,

A Mexican couple, a maniacal Gringo rapist and a gang of cut-throat Mexican bandits are all after the large inheritance of a kidnapped Texas woman.

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Michele Gammino,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Starting the investigation of a murder mystery, a police man is to investigate dangerously top politicians and military. A chain of suicides takes its toll among the current and past ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Jack Betts, Ray Saunders, Simonetta Vitelli,
Directors : Demofilo Fidani,

There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.

Actors : Jana Bellan, Timothy Brown, Russ Tamblyn, Geoffrey Land,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Kicks Carter, a streetwise Las Vegs cop, is out to shut down an upscale hotel that is actually a front for a host of illegal activities. A gang headed by the scuzzy Ziggy is running ...

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Shin'ichi Chiba, Akane Kawasaki, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs to take them down from the inside.

Actors : Hema Malini, Prem Chopra, Pran, Dharmendra,
Directors : Pramod Chakravorty,

A wealthy businessman moonlights as a philanthropist, robbin' the hood as it were.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Paula Kelly, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An ex-convict priest and a framed former policeman hunt a machine-gun killer behind a bank robbery.

Actors : Hsi Chang, Siu Ming Tsui, Shun-Yee Yuen, Lung Chan,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

Aspiring barber and experienced kung-fu fighter Shang learns that his childhood friend, Siu Ming, has been framed for murder by an unknown villain. When Shang begins looking into the crime,...

Actors : Asha Parekh, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra, Laxmi Chhaya,
Directors : Raj Khosla,

Ajit saves the village from the dakus (bandits); whilst having romance with Anju.