The Top 250 Action Movies of the 1970s

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The Top 250 Action Movies of the 1970s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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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 -
5418 1941 1979 Steven Spielberg PG -
5473 Waterloo 1970 Sergei Bondarchuk G -
5497 Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter 1974 Brian Clemens R -
5549 Freebie and the Bean 1974 Richard Rush R -
5728 Orca 1977 Michael Anderson PG -
5798 Keoma 1976 Enzo G. Castellari NR -
5852 The Wild Geese 1978 Andrew V. McLaglen R -
5918 Godzilla on Monster Island 1972 Jun Fukuda G -
5922 Godzilla vs. Megalon 1973 Jun Fukuda G -
5925 Earthquake 1974 Mark Robson PG -
5931 Futureworld 1976 Richard T. Heffron PG -
5968 Escape to Witch Mountain 1975 John Hough NR -
6087 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 1979 Daniel Haller PG -
6356 Le Mans 1971 Lee H. Katzin G -
6447 Walking Tall 1973 Phil Karlson R -
6452 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 Melvin Van Peebles NR -
6482 The Incredible Hulk 1977 Kenneth Johnson NR -
6499 Black Belt Jones 1974 Robert Clouse R -
6537 Juggernaut 1974 Richard Lester PG -
6796 Telefon 1977 Don Siegel PG -
6833 Dolemite 1975 D'Urville Martin R -
6876 Return of the Street Fighter 1974 Shigehiro Ozawa R -
7024 Cleopatra Jones 1973 Jack Starrett PG -
7081 The Killer Elite 1975 Sam Peckinpah PG -
7115 Meteor 1979 Ronald Neame PG -
7260 The Beast Must Die 1974 Paul Annett PG -
7268 Airport 1975 1974 Jack Smight PG -
7319 Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo 1970 Kihachi Okamoto NR -
7332 Billy Jack 1971 Tom Laughlin PG -
7333 Red Sun 1971 Terence Young PG -
7390 Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance 1974 Toshiya Fujita NR -
7445 Cotton Comes to Harlem 1970 Ossie Davis R -
7473 White Lightning 1973 Joseph Sargent PG -
7483 Sex and Fury 1973 Norifumi Suzuki R -
7491 Rollercoaster 1977 James Goldstone NR -
7672 Last Hurrah for Chivalry 1979 John Woo NR -
7745 The Fearless Hyena 1979 Jackie Chan, Kenneth Tsang NR -
7917 Damnation Alley 1977 Jack Smight PG -
7970 Heroes of the East 1978 Chia-Liang Liu R -
8269 The Man from Hong Kong 1975 Brian Trenchard-Smith NR -
8329 Too Late the Hero 1970 Robert Aldrich PG -
8382 The Big Bird Cage 1972 Jack Hill R -
8400 The Thirty-Nine Steps 1978 Don Sharp PG -
8571 Caged Heat 1974 Jonathan Demme R -
8716 The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires 1974 Roy Ward Baker R -
8737 Black Mama, White Mama 1973 Eddie Romero R -
8739 Magnificent Butcher 1979 Woo-ping Yuen PG13 -
8774 The Big Doll House 1971 Jack Hill R -
9081 The Kid with the Golden Arm 1979 Cheh Chang R -
9138 The Cassandra Crossing 1977 George P. Cosmatos R -
9185 Supervixens 1975 Russ Meyer NR -
9332 Brannigan 1975 Douglas Hickox R -
9387 F.I.S.T 1978 Norman Jewison PG -
9417 Shaft's Big Score! 1972 Gordon Parks R -
9431 Dirty Ho 1979 Chia-Liang Liu R -
9468 Grand Theft Auto 1977 Ron Howard PG -
9505 Breakout 1975 Tom Gries PG -
9726 Crime Busters 1977 Enzo Barboni PG -
9789 Hell Up In Harlem 1973 Larry Cohen NR -
9872 Heavy Traffic 1973 Ralph Bakshi R -
9936 The Super Inframan 1975 Shan Hua PG -
9937 Airport '77 1977 Jerry Jameson PG -
9964 Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire 1970 Kenji Misumi NR -
10077 Bucktown 1975 Arthur Marks R -
10161 Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman 1971 Kimiyoshi Yasuda NR -
10201 Circle of Iron 1978 Richard Moore R -
10211 Take a Hard Ride 1975 Antonio Margheriti PG -
10266 Friday Foster 1975 Arthur Marks R -
10302 Blind Woman's Curse 1970 Teruo Ishii R -
10348 Slaughter 1972 Johnny Jones R -
10513 The Big Racket 1976 Enzo G. Castellari NR -
10528 Shaolin Temple 1976 Cheh Chang NR -
10547 Big Bad Mama 1974 Steve Carver R -
10551 Detroit 9000 1973 Arthur Marks R -
10661 Two-Minute Warning 1976 Larry Peerce R -
10668 Cannonball 1976 Paul Bartel R -
10679 Gator 1976 Burt Reynolds PG -
10732 Stone 1974 Sandy Harbutt NR -
10775 Deewaar 1975 Yash Chopra NR -
10791 Executioners from Shaolin 1977 Chia-Liang Liu R -
11005 The Italian Connection 1972 Fernando Di Leo R -
11034 Chato's Land 1972 Michael Winner PG -
11085 Wipeout! 1973 Fernando Di Leo R -
11236 Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice 1972 Kenji Misumi NR -
11320 The Last American Hero 1973 Lamont Johnson PG -
11399 Sheba, Baby 1975 William Girdler PG -
11559 Go Tell the Spartans 1978 Ted Post R -
11564 Trouble Man 1972 Ivan Dixon R -
11635 Five Shaolin Masters 1974 Cheh Chang R -
11652 Knockabout 1979 Sammo Hung NR -
11717 The Stone Killer 1973 Michael Winner R -
11727 Adios Sabata 1970 Gianfranco Parolini PG13 -
11783 Sister Street Fighter 1974 Kazuhiko Yamaguchi R -
11820 Gamera vs. Monster X 1970 Noriaki Yuasa NR -
11903 Jackson County Jail 1976 Michael Miller R -
11930 Rumble in Hong Kong 1973 Mu Zhu NR -
12094 White Line Fever 1975 Jonathan Kaplan PG -
12138 Three the Hard Way 1974 Gordon Parks Jr. R -
12196 All the Way Boys 1972 Giuseppe Colizzi PG -
12330 The New One-Armed Swordsman 1971 Cheh Chang R -
12490 Mad Dog Morgan 1976 Philippe Mora NR -
12533 The Human Tornado 1976 Cliff Roquemore R -
12674 Invincible Shaolin 1978 Cheh Chang NR -
12761 The Spook Who Sat by the Door 1973 Ivan Dixon PG -
12801 The Swarm 1978 Irwin Allen PG -
12885 Melinda 1972 Hugh A. Robertson R -
12923 Shaft in Africa 1973 John Guillermin R -
12936 Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin 1978 Chi-Hwa Chen NR -
13025 ...tick... tick... tick... 1970 Ralph Nelson G -
13046 The White Sun of the Desert 1970 Vladimir Motyl NR -
13071 Girl Boss Guerilla 1972 Norifumi Suzuki NR -
13142 The Four Feathers 1977 Don Sharp NR -
13169 Zatoichi at Large 1972 Kazuo Mori NR -
13171 The Last Hard Men 1976 Andrew V. McLaglen R -
13352 Street Law 1974 Enzo G. Castellari R -
13359 Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold 1975 Charles Bail R -
13463 Female Yakuza Tale 1973 Teruo Ishii NR -
13532 Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo 1978 Soji Yoshikawa, Yasuo Ôtsuka NR -
13560 The Six Million Dollar Man 1973 Richard Irving NR -
13643 The Executioner 1974 Teruo Ishii R -
13733 The Last Run 1971 Richard Fleischer PG -
13824 Disco Godfather 1979 J. Robert Wagoner R -
13836 The Shogun's Samurai 1978 Kinji Fukasaku NR -
14062 Willie Dynamite 1974 Gilbert Moses R -
14077 Warriors Two 1978 Sammo Hung R -
14093 The Great Texas Dynamite Chase 1976 Michael Pressman R -
14119 I'm for the Hippopotamus 1979 Italo Zingarelli NR -
14124 The Black Gestapo 1975 Lee Frost NR -
14201 Gray Lady Down 1978 David Greene PG -
14223 Sitting Target 1972 Douglas Hickox NR -
14324 KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park 1978 Gordon Hessler PG -
14469 The Trial of Billy Jack 1974 Tom Laughlin PG -
14493 Black Samurai 1977 Al Adamson R -
14528 The Return of Sabata 1971 Gianfranco Parolini PG -
14636 The Amazing Spider-Man 1977 E.W. Swackhamer NR -
14668 The Deadly Tower 1975 Jerry Jameson NR -
14755 Savage Sisters 1974 Eddie Romero R -
14807 A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe 1975 Damiano Damiani NR -
14820 One-Armed Boxer 1972 Yu Wang R -
14852 Terminal Island 1973 Stephanie Rothman R -
14872 Women in Cages 1971 Gerardo de Leon R -
14924 The Chinese Boxer 1970 Yu Wang R -
14927 Mad Monkey Kung Fu 1979 Chia-Liang Liu R -
14935 The Flying Guillotine 1975 Meng Hua Ho NR -
15097 Good Guys Wear Black 1978 Ted Post PG -
15132 The Brave Archer 1977 Cheh Chang NR -
15393 The Final Programme 1973 Robert Fuest R -
15417 The Mighty Peking Man 1977 Meng Hua Ho PG13 -
15513 The Fate of Lee Khan 1973 King Hu NR -
15574 The Ambush: Incident at Blood Pass 1970 Hiroshi Inagaki NR -

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