1970s action films

The list of action films of the 1970s includes movies of the action genre that were released between 1970 and 1979. It does not claim to be complete.

year	title	Country of production	Director	main actor	annotation
1970	Airport	United States	George Seaton	Burt Lancaster	Continued
1970	Ten hours for Virgil Tibbs	United States	Gordon Douglas	Sidney Poitier	Continuation , continued
1970	Cold sweat	Italy France Belgium	Terence Young	Charles Bronson	Book adaptation
1971	Vanishing Point San Francisco	United States United Kingdom	Richard C. Sarafian	Barry Newman	Remake
1971	The omega man	United States	Boris Sagal	Charlton Heston	Remake , book adaptation
1971	James Bond 007 - Diamond Fever	United Kingdom	Guy Hamilton	Sean Connery	Continuation , Continued , book adaptation
1971	Brooklyn focal point	United States	William Friedkin	Gene Hackman	Continued , book adaptation
1971	Dirty Harry	United States	Don Siegel	Clint Eastwood	Continued
1971	Shaft	United States	Gordon Parks	Richard Roundtree	Continued , book adaptation
1971	The organization	United States	Don Medford	Sidney Poitier	continuation
1971	Fan Chu - Deadly Revenge	Hong Kong	Chang Cheh	David Chiang
1971	Bruce Lee - The Death Fist of Cheng Li	Hong Kong	Lo Wei	Bruce Lee
1972	Everyone is the first to die	United States	John Boorman	Jon Voight
1972	Cold breath	United States	Michael Winner	Charles Bronson	Remake
1972	Poseidon's journey into hell	United States	Ronald Neame	Gene Hackman	Remake , book adaptation
1972	Two heaven dogs on their way to hell	Italy	Giuseppe Colizzi	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1972	Superfly	United States	Gordon Parks Jr.	Ron O'Neal
1972	Getaway	United States	Sam Peckinpah	Steve McQueen	Remake
1972	Greetings from pistols	United States	Gordon Parks	Richard Roundtree	Continuation , Continued , book adaptation
1972	Slaughter	United States Mexico	Jack Starrett	Jim Brown
1972	Bruce Lee - Death greetings from Shanghai	Hong Kong	Lo Wei	Bruce Lee
1972	The claw of death hits up again	Hong Kong	Bruce Lee	Bruce Lee
1973	The Hong Kong girl	BR Germany	Jürgen Roland	Joachim Fuchsberger
1973	James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die	United Kingdom	Guy Hamilton	Roger Moore	Continuation , Continued , book adaptation
1973	The big coup	United States	Don Siegel	Walter Matthau
1973	Shaft in Africa	United States	John Guillermin	Richard Roundtree	Continuation , book adaptation
1973	The man with the death claw	Hong Kong	Robert Clouse	Bruce Lee
1973	The tiger chases the pack	United States	Joseph Sargent	Burt Reynolds	Continued
1973	Dirty Harry II - Calahan	United States	Ted Post	Clint Eastwood	Continuation , continued
1974	Two like bad luck and brimstone	Italy Spain	Marcello Fondato	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1974	I am the law	United States	Richard Fleischer	Charles Bronson
1974	A man sees red	United States	Michael Winner	Charles Bronson	Book adaptation
1974	Stop the deadly journey of the subway 123	United States	Joseph Sargent	Walter Matthau	Remake
1974	James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun	United Kingdom	Guy Hamilton	Roger Moore	Continuation , Continued , book adaptation
1974	Two missionaries	Italy France	Franco Rossi	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1974	earthquake	United States	Mark Robson	Charlton Heston
1974	Flaming inferno	United States	John Guillermin	Steve McQueen , Paul Newman	Book adaptation
1974	Giants in the sky	United States	Jack Smight	Charlton Heston	Continuation , continued
1974	The tin pirates	United States	HB Halicki	HB Halicki	Remake
1975	Fear over the city	France Italy	Henri Verneuil	Jean-Paul Belmondo
1975	Rollerball	United States	Norman Jewison	James Caan
1975	French Connection II	United States	John Frankenheimer	Gene Hackman	continuation
1976	Dirty Harry III - The Relentless	United States	James Fargo	Clint Eastwood	Continuation , continued
1976	Rocky	United States	John G. Avildsen	Sylvester Stallone	Continued
1976	Assault at night	United States	John Carpenter	Austin Stoker	Remake
1976	My name is gator	United States	Burt Reynolds	Burt Reynolds	continuation
1977	Two out of control	Italy	Enzo Barboni	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1977	Lost in the Bermuda Triangle	United States	Jerry Jameson	Jack Lemmon	Continuation , continued
1977	James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me	United Kingdom	Lewis Gilbert	Roger Moore	Continuation , Continued , book adaptation
1977	A boiled rascal	United States	Hal Needham	Burt Reynolds	Continued
1977	phone	United States	Don Siegel	Charles Bronson
1978	Bruce Lee - My last fight	United States Hong Kong	Robert Clouse	Bruce Lee
1978	Convoy	United States United Kingdom	Sam Peckinpah	Kris Kristofferson
1978	They called him mosquito	Italy BR Germany	Michele Lupo	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1978	Two cannot be stopped	Italy	Sergio Corbucci	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1978	Driver	United States United Kingdom	Walter Hill	Ryan O'Neal
1979	The warriors	United States	Walter Hill	Michael Beck
1979	James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret	United Kingdom of France	Lewis Gilbert	Roger Moore	Continuation , Continued , book adaptation
1979	Escape from Alcatraz	United States	Don Siegel	Clint Eastwood	Book adaptation
1979	Airport '80 - The Concorde	United States	David Lowell Rich	Alain Delon	continuation
1979	The crocodile and his hippo	Italy	Italo Zingarelli	Bud Spencer , Terence Hill
1979	Mad Max	Australia	George Miller	Mel Gibson	Continued
1979	Rocky II	United States	Sylvester Stallone	Sylvester Stallone	Continuation , continued
1979	1941 - Where are you going to Hollywood	United States	Steven Spielberg	Dan Aykroyd

Individual evidence

1. ↑ information from IMDb taken