Best Action movies of 1972

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami is an ex-convict who becomes a hostess to support a sick woman who bailed her out. In doing so, she gets involved in a local gangster's scheme to take over the bar she works for.

Actors : Margaret Markov, Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Rickey Richardson,
Directors : Joe Viola,

Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Tony Kendall, Monica Teuber, William Berger,
Directors : Ernst Ritter von Theumer,

Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.

Actors : Dixie Peabody, Clyde Ventura, Joanne Moore Jordan, Terry Mace,
Directors : Barbara Peeters,

Tautly directed biker film, told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Sanae Kitabayashi, Atsuo Nakamura, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry...

Actors : Anne Archer, Slim Pickens, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton,
Directors : Steve Ihnat,

An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.

Actors : Charlene Jones, Sid Haig, Pat Woodell, John Ashley,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

Actors : René Caron, Sophie Carrière, Suzanne Valéry, Marcel Sabourin,
Directors : Denys Arcand,

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Stanley Baker,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Experienced British spy must retrieve a defecting Soviet scientist from Turkey. When a pretty female innocent bystander gets kidnapped by mistake by his enemies, he feels responsible and decides to help her as well.

Actors : Margo Mars, Sandy Jackson, Nancy Young, John Tull,
Directors : William Rotsler,

After an unsuccessful assassination attempt, a thankful oil Sheik opens the gates of a thousand delights to a wonder-struck American field geologist.

Actors : Ching Tien, Kuan Tai Chen, Mu Chu, Li Ching,

Chen Kuan-tai exuded incredible power on screen, which his directors used to great advantage in this fight-filled follow-up to the smash hit The Boxer From Shantung -- which culminates in ...

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 : Jack Palance, Lionel Stander, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Giancarlo Prete,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on ...

Actors : Prem Nath, Hema Malini, Prem Chopra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

A queen is fooled into believing that a street-dancer is her grand-daughter.

Actors : Preston Pierce, Kent Taylor, Ross Hagen, Regina Carrol,
Directors : Al Adamson,

Rowdy biker women get more than they bargained for after joining a commune.

Actors : Kazim Kartal, Meral Zeren, Kartal Tibet, Ahmet Mekin,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

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 : D'Urville Martin, Ed Cambridge, Billy Dee Williams, Celia Milius,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.

Actors : Hung Pai, Fei Meng, Lin Lin Li, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yang Ming Tsai,

A gifted but proud young martial arts student injures and kills an opponent. In retaliation , his father is killed. The young student vows revenge and begins to prepare for his epic face-off.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Paul Stevens,
Directors : Hugh A. Robertson,

A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It ...