Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Teruhiko Saigô, Takahiro Tamura, Ken Ogata, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

Actors : Chia-Hui Liu, Sheng Fu, Yi Ling Chen, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When the ruling dynasty in China sends soldiers to destroy the Shaolin Temple, students use their martial arts to defend the school.

Actors : Billy Robinson, Verne Gagne, Edward Asner, Elaine Giftos,
Directors : James A. Westman,

Promoting the world of professional wrestling at the expense of the plot itself, Frank Bass (Ed Asner) takes a stand and defends what he thinks is right. Gamblers, mobsters, unscrupulous ...

Actors : Sonja Jeannine, Hua Yueh, Hui-Ling Liu, Diane Drube,

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their ...

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Dennis Safren, Lang Jeffries, Dobie Gray,

Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, George Murdock, Max Julien, Glynn Turman,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

A rare blaxploitation classic starring Vonette McGee & Max Julien, Thomasine & Bushrod was intended as a counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde. This pair of thieves, who operate in the American ...

Actors : Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche, George Peppard, Gordon Pinsent,
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 : Annazette Chase, Philip Michael Thomas, Robert Burr, Richard Lawson,

To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

Actors : Timothy Brown, Aldo Ray, Alan Tang, James Hong,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.

Actors : Hua Yueh, Malisa Longo, Aldo Canti, Marc Hannibal,
Directors : Alfonso Brescia,

Three men with supernatural powers interfere in a tribal warfare to prevent evil Amazons destroying the inhabitants of a village.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Fabio Testi, Franco Nero, Lina Polito,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some ...

Actors : Kongara Jaggaiah, Krishna Ghattamaneni, Vijaya Nirmala, Chandramohan,
Directors : V. Ramachandra Rao,

Cinematci version of the life of the legendary freedom fighter.

Actors : Gisela Hahn, Renzo Palmer, Henry Silva, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Tonino Ricci,

Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Isao Natsuyagi, Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

Actors : Toshio Kurosawa, Tetsurô Tanba, Kaoru Yumi, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late....

Actors : Lu-Yi Chuo, Yao Lin Chen, Cüneyt Arkin, Tao Chiang,
Directors : Victor Lamp,

Erol is a successful cop, who lives with his sister Yasemin. Wang, the most troublesome gang leader of Hong Kong comes to Istanbul. The Security Department of Istanbul, appoint Erol to ...

Actors : Walter Kohut, Eva Mattes, Michael Degen, Charly Wierczejewski,
Directors : Roland Klick,

Willi is a street kid trying to make a living with petty crimes. He befriends both a journalist who wants to help him make an honest living and an older petty criminal looking for a quick buck.

Actors : David Chiang, Kuan Tai Chen, Danny Lee, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A town is taken over by a brutal gang, which has taken a safe in a robbery of another town and needs to find someone who can open it for them. They terrorize the townsfolk, beating up and ...

Actors : Shirley Washington, Chiquito, James Iglehart, Marissa Delgado,
Directors : Cesar Gallardo,

The Jefferson's honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. ...

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Kuan Tai Chen, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When the "godfather of the kung-fu film" Chang Cheh decided to tell their stories with Alexander Fu Sheng, Chen Kuan-tai, and Chi Kuan-chun in the roles, it was cause for celebration. This ...