Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Robert DoQui, Booker Bradshaw, William Elliott, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Siu Tin Yuen, Dean Shek, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Woo-Ping Yuen,

Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Yuen Siu-Tien), a master of drunken martial arts.

Actors : George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Charlton Heston, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Actors : Nora Miao, Bruce Lee, Ping Ou Wei, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Bruce Lee,

A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Pam Grier,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Actors : Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Dirk Benedict,

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Steve McQueen, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

Actors : Bruce Lee, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista, Maria Yi,

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.

Actors : Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Carl Lee, Julius Harris,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Actors : Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, James Brolin, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

A mysterious black, sleek automobile terrorizes everyone it comes into contact with in a small town in Utah. The local sheriff may be the only person who can stop this menace which has been possessed by pure evil.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.

Actors : Nora Miao, Bruce Lee, James Tien, Maria Yi,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A young man seeks vengence for the death of his teacher.

Actors : Roger Moore, Hardy Krüger, Richard Burton, Richard Harris,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Tom Berenger, Hugh Millais, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Irvin,

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Caroline Munro,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile...

Actors : Brian Keith, Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston,
Directors : John Milius,

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Shôgen Nitta, Tomisaburô Wakayama,

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Herb Edelman, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...