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1970s Action Movies

Public list by WPS with 266 movies or TV shows/series

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Superman(1978)

PG
| 2h 23min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 1,751 votes)

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Fist of Fury(1972)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Action, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 383 votes)

Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While investigating the man's death, Chen discovers that a rival Japanese school is operating a drug smuggling ring. To avenge his master’s death, Chen takes on both Chinese and Japanese assassins… and even a towering Russian.

The Big Boss(1971)

R
| 1h 40min | Action
3.6/5 (with 302 votes)

Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

Directed by Lo Wei - With Maria Yi, James Tien, Tony Liu, Bruce Lee, Chen Chao, Nora Miao, ...

Game of Death(1978)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama, Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 277 votes)

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Directed by Bruce Lee, Robert Clouse, Sammo Hung - With James Tien, Chieh Yuan, Dan Inosanto, Ji Han-jae, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bruce Lee, ...

Force 10 from Navarone(1978)

PG
| 1h 58min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.1/5 (with 119 votes)

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

Shaft(1971)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 145 votes)

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Spider-Man(1978)

3.0/5 (with 54 votes)

When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin(1978)

1h 55min | Action, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 164 votes)

The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui manages to escape, and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge.

Directed by Lau Kar-leung - With Gordon Liu, Lo Lieh, Wong Yue, Yu Yang, Norman Chui, Wu Hang-Sheng, ...

Vanishing Point(1971)

R
| 1h 39min | Action, Drama
3.6/5 (with 189 votes)

Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.

Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin(1978)

1h 36min | Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

Jackie Chan stars as the young warrior Hsu Yiu Fong. Hsu has been entrusted with the book of the "Art of the Snake and Crane," after the mysterious disappearance of the eight Shaolin Masters who had written it. He must fight off numerous clans who are all attempting to steal the book from him, to find out the true reason for the disappearance of the Shaolin Masters.

Directed by Chi-Hwa Chen - With Jackie Chan

New Fist of Fury(1976)

1h 54min | Action, Drama
2.9/5 (with 32 votes)

A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung- Fu school in Taiwan has plans to bringing all other schools on the island under his domination, and part of his plan involves the murder of the grandfather.

Shaolin Wooden Men(1976)

1h 37min | Action
3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

Little Mute is an orphan traumatized into silence by the death of his father at the hands of a vicious fighting master. Living at the Shaolin monastery, he befriends a dangerous prisoner who teaches him a secret form of deadly kung fu. Seeing his intense determination, other masters share the wisdom of the Gliding Snake and Drunken Master techniques. In one of the most exciting fight scenes ever filmed, Little Mute must run the gauntlet of the famous 108 wooden men in an extreme test of skill and endurance. But if he becomes a master, will he use his unmatched force for redemption or revenge?

Directed by Chi-Hwa Chen - With Jackie Chan, Chin Kang, Chiang Kam, Chang Ping-Yu, Doris Lung Chun-Erh
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White Lightning(1973)

PG
| 1h 41min | Drama, Action, Crime
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Mr. Majestyk(1974)

PG
| 1h 43min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 66 votes)

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

The Bullet Train(1975)

NR
| 2h 32min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

One of the Japanese Shinkansen, “Bullet Trains,” is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.

Coffy(1973)

R
| 1h 30min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 100 votes)

After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.

Violent City(1970)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Gone in 60 Seconds(1974)

PG
| 1h 45min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 66 votes)

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.

Directed by H. B. Halicki - With Marion Busia, H. B. Halicki, Jerry Daugirda, Parnelli Jones

The Cub Tiger from Kwang Tung(1973)

1h 20min | Action, Comedy, Drama
2.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Hsiao Hu has been secretly training in martial arts, as his father (Tien Feng) has forbidden him. Later, some local store owners ask Ah to help protect them from a greedy Chinese extortion ring. Ah discovers that the crime lord behind the extortion had killed his father years before and is determined for revenge.

Directed by Chu Mu, Hai-Feng Wei - With Jackie Chan

The Hunting Party(1971)

R
| 1h 51min | Action, Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

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

The Street Fighter(1974)

R
| 1h 31min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's blood-feud with Terry over a disputed debt.

Magnificent Bodyguards(1978)

R
| 1h 41min | Action
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Chan is asked by a young, wealthy lady to take her sick brother to a particular doctor in order to be cured. To reach this doctor, Chan and a handful of travelling companions must pass through bandit-infested wild country. They meet and kung-fu-fight several gangs of thugs along the way.

Directed by Lo Wei - With Jackie Chan

Return of the Street Fighter(1974)

1h 23min | Action
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.

The Heroic Ones(1970)

NR
| 1h 57min | Action, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals to embark on the mission. However, jealously amongst them sparks a treacherous family feud that could lead to catastrophic consequences for all involved.

Directed by Chang Cheh - With David Chiang, Ku Feng, Chin Han, Ti Lung

The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots(1969)

3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

His goal is to help the weak and defenseless, but his saving a mouse makes him the most wanted in all the land. On the run from incessant, dim-witted mice, Perro befriends a young miller's boy, Pierre; together, they decide to seek fame and fortune. When they cross paths with the lovely Princess Rosa, Perro determines to get Pierre hitched to Her Royal Highness.

Directed by Kimio Yabuki

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge(1974)

1h 23min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

Breaker! Breaker!(1977)

PG
| 1h 26min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

Directed by Don Hulette - With Chuck Norris, George Murdock

Shaolin Temple(1976)

2h 6min | Action, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and literally thousands of Qing troops - complete with betrayals, intrigues, and such novel fighting machines as 108 wooden robots. The conflicts grow in complexity, intensity and even suspense as monks struggle to stay alive in the face of overwhelming odds.

Directed by Chang Cheh - With Alexander Fu Sheng, David Chiang, Ti Lung

Crippled Avengers(1978)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Drama
3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son.

Directed by Chang Cheh - With Philip Kwok, Lu Feng, Lo Mang, Chiang Sheng, Wang Lung-wei, Chen Kuan-tai, ...

The Boxer from Shantung(1972)

2h 9min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Directed by Chang Cheh - With David Chiang, Ku Feng
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