Best Action movies of 1974

Actors : Tani Guthrie, Jennifer Billingsley, John Considine, Judith McConnell,
Directors : Terry Becker,

Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal.

Actors : Jill Harris, Frank Silvano, Chesty Morgan, Saul Meth,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

Underworld drug king Toplar is flooding the market with low-grade heroin. Agent 99 gets a bit too close to the truth, but manages to gasp out a clue as to the identity of Toplar: he has a ...

Actors : Catherine Schell, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Edward Woodward,
Directors : Don Sharp,

David Callan, top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a ...

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Richard Conte, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.

Actors : Bradford Dillman, Alex Cord, Jackie Cooper, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Sutton Roley,

A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. ...

Actors : Ni Tien, Wu Chi Liu, Chun Yang, Ping Chen,
Directors : Han Hsiang Li,

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 : Ediz Hun, Bülent Kayabas, Filiz Akin, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Zeynep lives with his old father. She has lost her ability to speak because of an accident. She needs an operation in order to be able to talk again. One day, five prison fugitives come to ...

Actors : Annazette Chase, Philip Michael Thomas, Robert Burr, Richard Lawson,

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

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Gastone Moschin, Ray Lovelock, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

A cop is consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook in question is Marseilles who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement.

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 ...

Actors : Tamayo Mitsukawa, Michiyo Bandô, Etsuko Shiomi, Hisako Tanaka,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese...

Actors : Paula Kelly, Lino Ventura, 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 : Lieux Dressler, John Martino, Claudia Jennings, Paul Carr,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.

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 : 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 : Joe Don Baker, Ann Sothern, Elizabeth Ashley, Jim Kelly,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Various factions are fighting each other to gain possession of a very special statue. The statue itself is not worth much, the needles inside it are the true prize. These "golden needles" ...

Actors : Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Ulla Jacobsson, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.

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.