The Top 100 Action Movies of the 1970s

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The Top 100 Action Movies of the 1970s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas PG -
213 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin R -
335 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent R -
395 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel R -
470 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse R -
519 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill R -
598 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg PG -
711 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah R -
730 Superman 1978 Richard Donner PG -
772 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter R -
897 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel PG -
909 Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro 1979 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
944 Mad Max 1979 George Miller R -
989 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 1978 Chia-Liang Liu R -
1020 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah PG -
1058 Lady Snowblood 1973 Toshiya Fujita NR -
1065 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel PG -
1183 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Richard Attenborough R -
1188 Magnum Force 1973 Ted Post R -
1339 The Duellists 1977 Ridley Scott PG -
1350 Drunken Master 1978 Woo-ping Yuen PG13 -
1403 Vanishing Point 1971 Richard C. Sarafian R -
1445 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill R -
1480 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Lewis Gilbert PG -
1484 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton PG -
1558 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson PG -
1570 Live and Let Die 1973 Guy Hamilton PG -
1662 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 Hal Needham PG -
1676 THX 1138 1971 George Lucas R -
1742 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame PG -
1805 The Big Boss 1971 Wei Lo R -
1842 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu NR -
1873 The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Guy Hamilton PG -
1903 Death Race 2000 1975 Paul Bartel R -
1959 The Way of the Dragon 1972 Bruce Lee R -
1986 The In-Laws 1979 Arthur Hiller PG -
2021 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Guy Hamilton PG -
2057 Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
2073 The Enforcer 1976 James Fargo R -
2081 Fist of Fury 1972 Wei Lo R -
2154 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin PG -
2228 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller PG -
2283 Coffy 1973 Jack Hill R -
2285 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
2344 Rolling Thunder 1977 John Flynn R -
2453 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Robert Wise PG -
2571 The Omega Man 1971 Boris Sagal PG -
2707 Hard Times 1975 Walter Hill PG -
2738 The Three Musketeers 1973 Richard Lester PG -
2758 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks R -
2786 French Connection II 1975 John Frankenheimer R -
2819 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison R -
2821 Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971 Don Taylor G -
2834 Foxy Brown 1974 Jack Hill R -
2909 Master of the Flying Guillotine 1976 Yu Wang R -
3034 Wizards 1977 Ralph Bakshi PG -
3040 Game of Death 1978 Robert Clouse, Bruce Lee R -
3049 The Gauntlet 1977 Clint Eastwood R -
3082 Black Sunday 1977 John Frankenheimer R -
3156 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril 1972 Buichi Saito NR -
3302 The Street Fighter 1974 Shigehiro Ozawa R -
3318 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 1972 J. Lee Thompson PG -
3348 Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 Ted Post G -
3375 The Inglorious Bastards 1978 Enzo G. Castellari R -
3410 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
3413 Every Which Way But Loose 1978 James Fargo PG -
3463 Five Deadly Venoms 1978 Cheh Chang NR -
3470 The Eiger Sanction 1975 Clint Eastwood R -
3547 The Four Musketeers 1974 Richard Lester PG -
3589 Moonraker 1979 Lewis Gilbert PG -
3709 Force 10 from Navarone 1978 Guy Hamilton PG -
3795 Midway 1976 Jack Smight PG -
3877 The Yakuza 1974 Sydney Pollack R -
3898 The Crazies 1973 George A. Romero R -
3900 Mr. Majestyk 1974 Richard Fleischer PG -
3901 The Twelve Tasks of Asterix 1976 René Goscinny NR -
3967 Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster 1971 Yoshimitsu Banno G -
4088 Airport 1970 George Seaton G -
4101 Emperor of the North Pole 1973 Robert Aldrich PG -
4103 Truck Turner 1974 Jonathan Kaplan R -
4116 The Black Hole 1979 Gary Nelson PG -
4211 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 1974 John Hough PG -
4265 Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 1978 Woo-ping Yuen PG -
4303 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1973 Gordon Hessler G -
4309 The Seven-Ups 1973 Philip D'Antoni PG -
4316 Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 1974 Jun Fukuda G -
4474 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy PG -
4549 Terror of Mechagodzilla 1975 Ishirô Honda G -
4631 Battlestar Galactica 1978 Richard A. Colla PG -
4732 Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973 J. Lee Thompson G -
4868 Crippled Avengers 1978 Cheh Chang NR -
4888 Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell 1974 Yoshiyuki Kuroda NR -
4898 Race with the Devil 1975 Jack Starrett PG -
4914 Thriller: A Cruel Picture 1973 Bo Arne Vibenius NR -
4968 Gone in 60 Seconds 1974 H.B. Halicki PG -
5105 Trinity Is Still My Name 1971 Enzo Barboni G -
5178 Five Fingers of Death 1972 Chang-hwa Jeong R -
5217 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons 1973 Kenji Misumi NR -
5285 Hooper 1978 Hal Needham PG -
5303 Sugar Hill 1974 Paul Maslansky PG -

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