Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : John Saxon, Mirella D'Angelo, Maurizio Merli, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

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 : Lau Chan, Yi Tao Chang, Dragon Lee, Lik Cheung,
Directors : Joseph Kong,

John Liu, the legendary Northern Kick expert is sent to investigate an antiques smuggling gang working out of Canton.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Anthony Caruso, Fred Williamson, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

Johnny Barrows, a G.I, is dishonorably discharged from the army after striking his commanding officer. When he returns home, he is mugged and thrown in jail. Down on his luck and with no ...

Actors : Lu-Yi Chuo, Yao Lin Chen, Cüneyt Arkin, Tao Chiang,
Directors : Victor Lamp,

Erol is a successful cop, who lives with his sister Yasemin. Wang, the most troublesome gang leader of Hong Kong comes to Istanbul. The Security Department of Istanbul, appoint Erol to ...

Actors : Mihai Volontir, Boris Galkin, Sergei Volkosh, Igor Ivanov,
Directors : Andrey Malyukov,

Action film about military training of Soviet paratroopers.

Actors : Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Dharmendra, Ajit,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

Suraj (Dharmendra) his dad, and sister live in Uganda while their properties and business in India are managed by an employee named Kalicharan. When they are forced to leave Uganda, after ...

Actors : James Brown, Richard Pryor, Fred Williamson, Robert Phillips,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

A cowboy's crimes are blamed on another man.

Actors : Jirô Yabuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Imai, Masashi Ishibashi,
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 : Morgan Woodward, Katie Saylor, Len Lesser, Mark Schneider,
Directors : Lamar Card,

A man named Clint enters a solar-powered van called Vandora into a competition called Freakout.

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 : Lloyd Bochner, Ron Slinker, Joie Chitwood, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Ricou Browning,

Heads roll as two cops, Chuck and Andy, go against Mr. D'Angelo, the biggest drug dealer in Florida, and his ruthless enforcer Fred, who has no legs but does have two mean double barrel shotguns built into his wheelchair.

Actors : Ling Chia, Kuan Tai Chen, Sing Chen, Lin Chiao,
Directors : Hsueh Li Pao,

A kung-fu fighting detective investigating the murder of the emperor's wife uncovers a high-ranking conspiracy.

Actors : Ni Tien, Kwok Kuen Chan, Danny Lee, Chen Chi Lin,
Directors : Hsueh Li Pao,

A bookish young man and his sword-loving sister find themselves battling a trio of villains, one of them a beautiful but masked woman who has promised to either marry or murder the first man to see her unmasked.

Actors : Gianfranco De Grassi, Carmen Scarpitta, Guido De Carli, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Vittorio Salerno,

The Savage Three are three young men, fresh into the world, who work together at a computer analysis company. All three appear to be calm, level-headed, well-educated young men with the ...

Actors : Feng Chen Chen, Chuan Chen, Wai-Man Chan, Yang Chang,

Based on one of China's enduring epic novels, written in the 14th century, "All Men Are Brothers" continues the patriotic story of righteous warriors battling despotic leaders, featuring ...

Actors : Seema, Mustafa Qureshi, Aasia, Sultan Rahi,
Directors : Yunus Malik,

Maula Jat tells the true story of it's eponymous hero's blood feud with the local "gunda" Nuri Nath.

Actors : Hua Yueh, Feng Ku, Lieh Lo, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Thanks to such filmmakers as choreographers Tang Chia and Yuen Cheung-yan (brother of Matrix master Yuen Woo-ping), this battle between Scorpion, Snake, and Centipede sects to create the "...

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 : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Carmen Argenziano, James Iglehart, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai.