Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Feng Ku, Yue Wong, Lung Ti, Angie Chiu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

The Kung-Fu Instructor was director Sun Cheng's homage to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where Ti Lung plays a righteous weapon instructor. It's the first time a Shaw Brother's director uses a ...

Actors : Aldo Sambrell, Helga Liné, Espartaco Santoni, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

The sole survivor, named Sando Kid (Peter Lee Lawrence), of a Northern slaughter seeks vendetta. After suffering atrocity, Kid executes a single-handedly revenge, he ravages, he hits and ...

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, Cosie Costa, Ray Milland, Peter Graves,
Directors : Larry Spiegel,

A group of teenagers drive out into the desert in search of sex, beer, and general good times. When their van breaks down, they find a group of prospectors who welcome the kids and offer ...

Actors : Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Colea Rautu, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

Actors : Connie Strickland, William Smith, Carol Speed, Rockne Tarkington,
Directors : Charles Bail,

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Actors : Sanjay Khan, Zeenat Aman, Raj Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Sanjay Khan,

Abdullah is a devout Muslim who lives in a small hut the middle of a desert in Persia, and looks after a well so that it provides water to thirsty travelers. One day a friend, Ameer, ...

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 : Peter Cushing, Stuart Whitman, Lung Ti, Lily Li,

Shatter, an international hitman, is hiding out in Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader. Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the ...

Actors : Barbara Werle, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, James Caan,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

After being framed, a cowboy is sent to jail. After his time is served, he leaves with vengeance in his heart. Soon he meets a young Native American woman and together they go to settle their score with a small town and its corrupt leader.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Yi Lung Huang, Fu-Chien Chang, Feng Cheng,
Directors : Wing-Cho Yip,

Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. One day he gets into a fight defending the locals from a ...

Actors : Iurie Darie, Puiu Calinescu, Jean Constantin, Toma Caragiu,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Actors : Carol Lynley, Warren Berlinger, Adam Roarke, Jack Palance,
Directors : William H. Bushnell,

The film centres around gangland boss Vic Morono who presides over a mixed pack of cards with the trumps being the 'The Four Deuces'-Chip Morono, Mickey Navarro, Ben Arlen and Smokey Ross. ...

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Yi Chang, Bruce Li, Angela Mao,
Directors : Jimmy Shaw,

Shrewd'n'suave Chang Wong and his redoubtable female partner devise an elaborate plan to take out a heroin drug ring led by the nefarious Paul. Moreover, Wong also works for a rival ...

Actors : Joe Lewis, Barbara Bach, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Ernest Pintoff,

A world's new kung-fu hero (Joe Lewis) is out to stop drug dealers, gangs and help save the world from an evil con (Christopher Lee).

Actors : Lon Chaney Jr., Jennifer Bishop, Russ Tamblyn, Aleshia Brevard,

After a string of bad times with men, Sandy tries to kill herself. Co-waitress Libby saves her and takes her to meet some female friends of hers who live on a ranch in the desert. Grace, ...

Actors : Angelique Pettyjohn, Janet Wood, Tom Keena, Victoria Racimo,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

A journalist gets mixed up with a stripper, a defecting Chinese scientist and Red Chinese agents.

Actors : Phillip Ko, Wei Tung, Cecilia Wong, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,
Directors : Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,

In a small town somewhere in 19th-century China, two brothers, each using their own particular style of martial arts, defeat a bully of a fighter who is terrorizing the town. In the ensuing...

Actors : Carlos Ancira, Blue Demon, Ivan J. Rado, Santo,
Directors : Gilberto Martínez Solares,

To foil his plan for world domination, wrestling superheroes El Santo and Blue Demon battle the mad Dr. Halder and his army of reanimated monsters.

Actors : N. Bazanova, Viktor Demertash, Vladimir Basov, Nikolai Dupak,

An expedition is dispatched to find the mysterious monster roaming the seas. Three crew members learn it to be an advanced submarine crewed by free men and headed by Captain Nemo. Their adventures continue aboard the amazing submarine.

Actors : Shan Chang, Cheng-Lan Chen, Tien-Chi Cheng, Kai Chia,

A ruthless white haired general intends to take over a small town with the help of his "Five Hands Gang"