Best Action movies of 1970s

Actors : Simon Oakland, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Don Medford,

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Donald Pleasence, Walter George Alton, Sydne Rome,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the ...

Actors : Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

Apelike aliens build a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the true Godzilla may not be powerful enough to destroy it.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar.

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Nando Paone, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Raimund Harmstorf,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. ...

Actors : Roger Moore, James Mason, Michael Parks, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.

Actors : Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Katsuhiko Sasaki,
Directors : Jun Fukuda,

The undersea nation of Seatopia sends the gigantic Megalon to destroy the world above - and it's up to Godzilla and a size-shifting robot, Jet Jaguar, to defeat him.

Actors : Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes, Chuck Norris, James Franciscus,
Directors : Ted Post,

An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Hans Meyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Vittorio Caprioli,
Directors : Philippe de Broca,

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and ...

Actors : Roddy McDowall, David Carradine, Christopher Lee, Jeff Cooper,
Directors : Richard Moore,

A young martial artist embarks on an adventure, encountering other martial artists in battle until one day he meets an aging blind man who will show him the true meaning of martial arts and life.

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

A World War II adventure, involving a group of Allied POWs, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.

Actors : Yûko Hama, Isao Yamagata, Gô Katô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Actors : Clive Revill, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Caine,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.

Actors : James Tien, Dean Shek, Jackie Chan, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote village with his grandfather who teaches him Kung-Fu. He keeps getting into fights, even though his grandfather warns him not to show their ...

Actors : Akira Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Kawase, Toshie Kimura, Toshio Shiba,
Directors : Yoshimitsu Banno,

From Earth's pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.