Best Action Comedy movies of 1970s

Actors : Kara Hui, Ho Hsiao, Chia-Liang Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.

Actors : Richard Harris, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Ron Leibman, Sheila Frazier, David Selby,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

Actors : Catherine Alric, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Romance in the prime of life. When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's ...

Actors : Zouzou, Elliott Gould, Joss Ackland, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of ...

Actors : Julie Parrish, Simmy Bow, Hal Reed, Byron Mabe,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.

Actors : Asher Tzarfati, Shmuel Wolf, Lily Avidan, Tzila Karney,
Directors : Amos Sefer,

Incited by a disillusioned young man who has decided to flee from civilization, a group of 4 people go searching for freedom and happiness on an isolated island . When their boat goes ...

Actors : Charles Grodin, Joan Collins, Farrah Fawcett, Art Carney,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up $5 million. A hotshot investigator Decker (Grodin) and a charming model (Fawcett) come in to check it out.

Actors : Louis Quinn, Tony Young, Joyce Jillson, Thomas Reardon,
Directors : Ed Forsyth,

Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with ...

Actors : Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Ajit,
Directors : Vijay Anand,

Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents ...

Actors : Yi Chang, Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fanny Wang,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught trying to rape his wife on their wedding night. His brother has never given up the chase ...

Actors : Tara Strohmeier, Miles Watkins, Jocelyn Jones, Claudia Jennings,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

Explosive drama and action when two sexy girls go on a bank robbing binge.

Actors : William Smith, Joe Namath, Jennifer Billingsley, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Seymour Robbie,

Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her ...

Actors : Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Fernando Rey, Stella Stevens,

A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.

Actors : Horst Janson, Lynn Redgrave, Eli Wallach, Franco Nero,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A self-proclaimed Russian prince, a Mexican bandit and a radical Irish female journalist team up during the Mexican Revolution to find fortune and notoriety.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Kaajal Kiran, Amjad Khan, Tariq,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

A businessman, an underachever, an heiress, her mobster father, his gang, his assistant and his father, and others hunt for a leather belt carrier containing a cache of diamonds which ...

Actors : Meg Lam, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Chun Yang, Roy Chiao,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

An apprentice farmer (Sammo Hung) ventures to the city and helps his family battle a gang of thugs.

Actors : Skip E. Lowe, John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Joseph Carlo,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

A black hairstylist has sex with his female customers, and tries to keep the Mafia from taking over his business.

Actors : James Tien, Hark-On Fung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Sing Chen,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

The Iron-Fisted Monk marks the directorial debut of Sammo Hung (Painted Faces, TVÂ's Martial Law), who used the opportunity to push the envelop in kung fu action films.