Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Lee Van Cleef, Chuck Norris, Art Hindle, Karen Carlson,
Directors : Eric Karson,

A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Ian Bannen, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is secunded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

Actors : Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, John Wayne,
Directors : John Sturges,

Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.

Actors : Richard Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Actors : Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Despina Tomazani, Per-Axel Arosenius,
Directors : Bo Arne Vibenius,

A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.

Actors : Nancy Morgan, Barry Cahill, Elizabeth Rogers, Ron Howard,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Terence Hill, Marc Lawrence, Joanne Dru,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Harrison Ford, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Actors : Jason Robards, Anne Archer, David Selby, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Actors : Pavel Luspekayev, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze,
Directors : Vladimir Motyl,

At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.

Actors : Pai Wei, Biao Yuen, Jackie Chan, Lily Li,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much ...

Actors : Bruce Dern, Fritz Weaver, Marthe Keller, Robert Shaw,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.

Actors : Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu, Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.

Actors : Linda Haynes, James Best, Tommy Lee Jones, William Devane,
Directors : John Flynn,

Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Brian Keith,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.

Actors : D'Urville Martin, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his ...

Actors : Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric, Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay,
Directors : John Guillermin,

P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Susan Sennett, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Charles Tyner, Keith Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

In 1933, during the Depression, Shack the brutal conductor of the number 19 train has a personal vendetta against the best train hopping hobo tramp in the Northwest, A No. 1.