Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Meng Lo, Carl Scott, Feng Ku, Bruce Li,
Directors : Shan Hua,

Two illegal immigrants meet a young kid and the three become best friends until one of them joins the Triads. Now the remaining two must fight the Triads in a battle to the death.

Actors : Mel Welles, Sandy Alan, Leslie Ackerman, Len Lesser,

Teenage friends Cindy and Leah have decided to leave their abusive homelives behind, stealing Cindy's father's car and setting out on the road to freedom. On the way, they meet up with a ...

Actors : José Aguilar, Alfredo Wally Barrón, Elsa Aguirre, Antonio Aguilar,
Directors : Mario Hernández,

Esta es la historia de un experto en gallos de peleas y su gran amigo, el hombre más rico y poderoso del pueblo, quien a base de malos tratos y de trampas logra casarse con una bella dama,...

Actors : Iftekhar, Mahendra Sandhu, Asha Sachdev, Jagdeep,
Directors : Deepak Bahry,

Agent Vinod is assigned the task of locating an abducted scientist.

Actors : Viktor Staal, Simon Ward, Verónica Forqué, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Ottokar Runze,

The setting is Belgrade, Oct 1918, the closing days of World War 1, and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Actors : Yi Chang, Carter Wong, Lingfeng Shangguan, Chung-Erh Lung,
Directors : Da Chiao Lin,

A series of killings ravage a Buddhist temple and one of its disciples is a suspect. A corrupted Emperor seeks out a valuable piece of treasure while giving the monks a month to recover the gift or die.

Actors : Suchorita, Wasim, Sohel Rana, Shabana,
Directors : Dewan Nazrul,

A former police officer calls two outlaws to help him to capture a notorious and ruthless bandit who murdered his family members.

Actors : Shabana Azmi, Satyendra Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Mahesh has returned home from overseas to his home country, India, along with the girl he plans to marry, Seema. He is greeted at the airport by his dad's assistant, Mack, and subsequently ...

Actors : Yi Chang, Phillip Ko, Wei Tung, Don Wong,
Directors : Chung Ting,

The martial-arts action film 10 Brothers of Shaolin tells the tale of ten specially trained fighters, five monks, five laymen, who have been taught their skills in order to protect Master ...

Actors : Yasuhiro Shikamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shiomi, Tadashi Yamashita,

After his master is brutally murdered by his fellow disciple & vicious Drug dealer Shikimura, Sonny sets out to find out his whereabouts. However the drug king pin has too many fighters and...

Actors : Yi Chang, Chung-Kuei Chang, Feng Hsu, Yu Wang,
Directors : Ting Mei Sung,

The pacifist warrior Silver Hermit is accused of having killed and/or conspired to kill three rivals in a martial arts contest. The contest is to choose a brave warrior to marry a princess,...

Actors : Woody Strode, Stuart Whitman, Gheorghe Dinica, Tony Kendall,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire ...

Actors : Shu-Tsai Chang, Shen-Lin Chen, Pao-Shan Chang, Ting Chao,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

Rescued from his house as a child and sent to the Shaolin Temple, Chu Shiao Chieh learns the martial arts and the virtues of patience and mercy. Upon reaching manhood, Chu sets out to ...

Actors : James Tien, Sing Chen, Casanova Wong, Shan Kwan,
Directors : Feng Huang,

This 1977 Hong Kong action film gave Sammo Hung his first starring role. A sinister martial arts master moves violently through Hong Kong. The only person standing in his way is his best student.

Actors : Lena Farugia, David Broadnax, Arthur Brauss, Stella Stevens,
Directors : Michael D. Moore,

Geoffrey Graves is a suave secret agent who's called out of retirement and sent to South Africa to recover a kidnapped aerospace engineer before he can reveal the secrets of the ...

Actors : Chung-Kuei Chang, Kau Chen, Kuang Lung Chi, Kao Chen,
Directors : Wu Ma,

A mysterious martial arts master takes revenge on the black Dragon gang for the murder of his father.

Actors : Dhruv, Shabana Azmi, Dev Kumar, Dharmendra,
Directors : Arjun Hingorani,

After watching his father, Masterji, getting killed; his sister, Laxmi, getting sexually assaulted by Sangram Singh, Dharamdas and Nandan, and then killing herself; and his younger brother,...

Actors : Jang Lee Hwang, Biao Yuen, Sing Chen, Chung-Erh Lung,
Directors : Chi Chang,

A regional champion martial artist that moonlights as an honour-bound assassin, Tu Ta Shen, solidifies his reputation by challenging top fighters en route to the other champion, Nan Pa Tien...

Actors : Michel Constantin, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Nero, Mauro Barabani,
Directors : Tonino Valerii,

Jean Bellard and Carl Mank, two Western engineers supported by Hamid are in search of a terrorist group that murdered their colleague in the Tunisian desert.

Actors : Richard Ng, Ricky Hui, Ying Cheung, Angie Chiu,
Directors : John Woo,

Ducky is hired by Rich Chen to transport the "diamonds" he stole from Uncle Pai Mary. Uncles Tough Guy and Mary would like to get the diamond from Ducky, so they volunteer to relieve Ducky of his responsibility.