Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Kôjirô Hongô, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masaru Shiga, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Actors : Olga Karlatos, Mario Feliciani, Massimo Serato, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high ...

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 : Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Shatrughan Sinha, Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Rajkumar Kohli,

A newly married bride disappears after her marriage.

Actors : Meng Lo, Jason Pai Piao, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.

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 : Kiel Martin, Chris Forbes, Arthur Hunnicutt, James Mitchum,
Directors : Gy Waldron,

Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters.

Actors : Berta Cabré, Bernard Seray, Isabel Mestres, Ángel Fernández Franco,
Directors : José Antonio de la Loma,

Actors : George Memmoli, Geoffrey Binney, Jim Kelly, Irene Tsu,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.

Actors : Art Maier, Lou Bedford, Fred Williamson, Bernard Kirby,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He ...

Actors : Heidy Bohlen, Carlheinz Heitmann, Raimund Harmstorf, Sybil Danning,

An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Jirô Yabuki, Etsuko Shiomi, Yasuaki Kurata,
Directors : Yu Kohira,

Karate master Kazuma gets severely beaten and crippled by nefarious rival Nikaido. Kazuma trains his loyal daughter Yumi in the martial arts so she can exact a harsh revenge on Nikaido and his band of evil thugs.

Actors : Jeff Cameron, Esmeralda Barros, Gengher Gatti, John Desmont,
Directors : Luigi Batzella,

Django's fiancee was abducted. So he must rescue her but that's not very easy. The problem is that the kidnappers are the Cortez brothers and their gang. They have robbed a bank and hid in ...

Actors : Alberto Dell'Acqua, Reza Beyk Imanverdi, Öztürk Serengil, Tarik Akan,

Married unhappily with dozens of children, the cashier Cafer embezzles a high sum of money and is put into prison. In order to learn the whereabouts of the money the rogues Mehmet, Omer and...

Actors : Tao-Liang Tan, Nami Misaki, Jim Kelly, Sing Chen,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart ...

Actors : Fujio Suga, Meiko Kaji, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shingo Yamashiro,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami(played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae who's father had sold her for prostitution. ...

Actors : Jana Bellan, Joe Higgins, Larry Mahan, Lindsay Bloom,
Directors : Fred G. Thorne,

Busty, blonde and beautiful, Six-Pack Annie seeks to help her Aunt Tess raise $5,000 for the family diner...by trying to find a rich daddy.

Actors : Meng Lo, Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Li Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three refugees become sworn brothers during a war. One (Kuo Chui/Philip Kwok) works in a whore house, one (Chiang Sheng) in a gambling house, and the other (Lo Mang) in a martial arts ...

Actors : Ming-Ming Hsiao, Min-Hsiung Wu, Yuan Yi, Ching Ching Chang,
Directors : Min-Hsiung Wu,

To Pa and several members of his Eagle Claw Fighting Clan are repulsed, in their attempt to rob government gold, by Chen Chen Chow, the Lightning Whipper. The clan do a second attack and ...