Best Revenge movies of 1970s

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Humbert Balsan, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother's death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.

Actors : John Savage, Ann Sothern, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem...

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Luc Merenda, Carlo Alighiero, Richard Conte,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

When Milano police lieutenant Giorga's chief is murdered by an organized crime ring, he vows to avenge his boss's death. Going undercover to continue the chief's investigation, he plans to ...

Actors : Reatha Grey, Stan Kamber, Marlo Monte, Tiffany Peters,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A proud black man does time in jail where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he goes about extracting vengeance on those who put him in prison. This includes both ...

Actors : Norman Burton, George Paulsin, Brenda Scott, Andrew Prine,
Directors : Bruce Kessler,

Simon, a young man with magic powers, invokes the help of the evil forces in order to take revenge on a man who cheated him with a bad cheque.

Actors : Rod Steiger, Trevor Howard, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Don Sharp,

Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. After his family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Actors : John Saxon, Tisa Farrow, Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal ...

Actors : Sinéad Cusack, Ray Barrett, James Booth, Joan Collins,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

A family plots to take its revenge on the man who raped and murdered their daughter.

Actors : Jun Chong, Deborah Dutch, Anthony Bronson, Su-cheon Bae,
Directors : Doo-yong Lee,

A lightning bolt strikes the grave of Bruce Lee. However, that is as much as Bruce Lee has to do with it. Then a kung fu instructor starts a quest to avenge a friend's death, and on the way...

Actors : Daniel Martín, Klaus Kinski, George Martin, Marina Malfatti,
Directors : Alfonso Balcázar,

Trinity is an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. Unfortunately for him, a ruthless bounty hunter is on his trail. ...

Actors : Rosie Stone, Frank Bannon, Joshua Bryant, Linda York,

Two Los Angeles detectives are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. Their job is complicated by the fact that the killer is able to avoid capture because he can pose as a woman.

Actors : Chiu-Sing Hau, Yuan-Chun Wu, Siu-Hung Leung, Austin Wai,
Directors : Mar Lo,

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself ''a corrector of bad kung-fu.'' Determined to avenge their teacher and ...

Actors : Charles Robinson, Tim Considine, David Moses, Joan Caulfield,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

Three men track down a pack of dobermans and along with a young Native American boy, train the dobermans to rob the campaign funds of a politician.

Actors : Ni Tien, Jung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen, Lap Ban Chan,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A woman, who believes she has murdered her abusive husband, then sees him return as a vengeful ghost.

Actors : Pei-Pei Cheng, Yi Chang, Han Chin, Yuen Kao,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A young woman sets out to reunite feuding brothers to take out a gang of killers who have murdered their father.

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Gastone Moschin, Ray Lovelock, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

A cop is consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook in question is Marseilles who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : René Clément,

A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.

Actors : Denis Le Guillou, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Anne Deleuze, Sylvie Bréal,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Mocky,

During an orgy with minor girls, some old and wealthy notables are being murdered by a small group of leftist young revolutionaries. Very soon the police are tracking down Virgile Cabral, ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Masaomi Kondô,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701 -- 1702, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the ... See full synopsis »

Actors : Darryl Wells, Jack Gardner, Robert Elston, Anitra Walsh,
Directors : Thomas W. Moore,

A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.