Best Action movies of 1970s

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 : Deepti Naval, Mithun Chakraborty, Shabana Azmi, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Bapu,

The wealthy and lecherous Zamindar Thakur Vir Pratap Singh lord over a small region in rural India mercilessly killing anyone who opposes his rule. He gets the male villagers addicted to ...

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

Actors : Irina Shevchenko, Bruce Le, Yi Tao Chang, Dragon Lee,
Directors : Joseph Kong,

Bruce Lee has just died, but the BSI is swinging into action to salvage the situation. Aided by the brilliant Professor Lucas, cells from the martial arts master's body are removed and ...

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Tak Yuen, Kuan Tai Chen, Hsueh-Erh Wen,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.

Actors : Richard Harrison, Bruce Le, Jang Lee Hwang, Nadiuska,

Two CIA agents - a kung fu master (Bruce Le) and a suave womanizer (Richard Harrison) - track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.

Actors : Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Sheng Chiang, Feng Lu, Li Wang,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

When director Chang Chen found new talent and blood with "The Five Venoms" actors, most of which were trained in the highly acrobatic Chinese opera and well versed with exotic martial arts ...

Actors : Robert Lansing, Anita Ekberg, Cornelia Sharpe, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Robert Michael Lewis,

Security Hazards Expert Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.

Actors : Rajinikanth, Rati Agnihotri, Jaishankar, Sumalatha,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Kaaliyan and Jaishankar are like dictators in neighboring villages separately, but in contrast to Kaaliyan, Jaishankar is selfish and bad. Engagement of Jaishankar's sister with Kaaliyan triggers rivalry between the two villages.

Actors : Tsui Ling Yu, Jason Pai Piao, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

Director Kuei Chih Hung was famous for his modern day crime thrillers, his horror flicks, and even his comedies. But if the only kung-fu film he ever made was this one, he'd still be spoken...

Actors : Albert Salmi, Woody Strode, Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Chuck Workman,

Adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Fu-Chien Chang, Feng Cheng, Yi Lung Huang,
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 : James Gammon, Regina Baff, John C. Becher, Mildred Burke,
Directors : Robert Fowler,

A New York City waitress decides to become a professional wrestler.

Actors : Bryan Brown, Gary Waddell, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Actors : Jun'ichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tarô Shigaki,
Directors : Hideo Onchi,

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Sheng Fu, Lung Ti,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The movie involves two stories concerning the original Ten Tigers and their future disciples.

Actors : Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Nenji Kobayashi, Kôji Nanjô,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the gang feels betrayed. Especially the reputedly...

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 : Kwok-Wah Au, Siu-Lung Leung, Yee-Hing Chan, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Fung Wong,

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hiroshi Katsuno, Yumi Takigawa,
Directors : Kenjirô Ohmori,

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.