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Films with the genre "Action", sorted by production date
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The Tea House (1974)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Chen Kuan-tai, Yang Chih-ching, Chan Shen, Bruce Le
Three Tough Guys (1974)
, 1h32Directed by Duccio Tessari
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Buddy films
Actors Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, Paula Kelly, William Berger, Vittorio Sanipoli
L'inspecteur d'une société d'assurance est tué pendant qu'il enquête sur un client très important. Un prêtre et un ancien inspecteur de police décident de découvrir le coupable.
Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
, 1h37Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Joshua Bryant, Paul Michael Glaser, Cliff Potts, Barra Grant
Truck Stop Women (1974)
, 1h22Directed by Mark L. Lester
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Pornographic
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors Claudia Jennings, Paul Carr, Len Lesser, Dennis Fimple, John Martino, Uschi Digard
Une mère et sa fille qui dirigent un bordel pour camionneurs ripostent lorsque la mafia tente de prendre le contrôle de leur entreprise.
The Two Missionaries (1974)
, 1h28Directed by Franco Rossi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about religion, Buddy films
Actors Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Mario Pilar, Robert Loggia, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Two missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
, 1h44Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor
Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier), a blue-collar worker at a steel mill, has just begun a two-weeks-long vacation. He is convinced by his friend Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) to go to a party that Saturday night at Madam Zenobia's, an uptown nightclub.
, 1h36Directed by Massimo Dallamano
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi, Farley Granger, Micaela Pignatelli
Le corps d'une jeune fille, Silvia Polvesi, est retrouvé pendu dans le grenier d'une maison d'un petit village de la province de Brescia. Les faits suggèrent d'abord un suicide. La police ouvre une enquête, d'abord conduite par le commissaire Silvestri puis par le commissaire Valentini, sous la coupe de la procureur adjointe Vittoria Stori. Les enquêteurs mettent à jour un réseau de prostitution de mineures impliquant de hauts politiques italiens et un scandale risque d'exploser. Mais l'enquête s'emballe encore plus dangereusement lorsqu'un homme habillé en motard, dont le visage est dissimulé sous un casque de moto, tente d'assassiner les enquêteurs et les témoins gênants.
The White Dawn (1974)
, 1h50Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.
When three whalers become stranded in Northern Canada’s Arctic in 1896, they are rescued by Inuit. In the beginning, the Inuit accept the strangers' European ways, but as this increasingly influences and affects their customs, things slowly fall apart and cultural tension grows until the climax.
Zehreela Insaan (1974)
, 2h30Directed by Puttanna Kanagal
Genres Action
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Moushumi Chatterjee, Neetu Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Madan Puri, Manorama
The California Kid (1974)
, 1h15Directed by Richard T. Heffron
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips, Nick Nolte, Stuart Margolin, Joe Estevez
The story takes place in 1958, and involves a town, Clarksburg, California, with a famous speed trap, in which a disturbed Sheriff Roy Childress (Vic Morrow), whose wife and daughter were killed by a speeder, turns bad, with a habit of deliberately punishing speeders by pushing their cars off the mountain highway in his 1957 Plymouth Belvedere.
Pray for the Wildcats (1974)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Michael Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson, Janet Margolin
Sam Farragut (Griffith) is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees (Shatner, Reed, Gortner) to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business.
Ransom (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Casper Wrede
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Isabel Dean, James Maxwell, William Fox, Colin Prockter
A small group of terrorists have seized the British ambassador to the fictitious country of "Scandinavia", and are holding him hostage in his residence. Scandinavia's head of security, Col. Nils Tahlvik (Sean Connery), wants to take an uncompromising position, but he is overruled by the governments of both Scandinavia and Britain, who insist that all of the terrorists' demands be met.
Dead of Night (1974)
, 1h28Directed by Bob Clark
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Action, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Politique, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Backus, John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Henderson Forsythe, Arthur Anderson, Arthur Anderson
In Vietnam, US soldier Andy Brooks is shot by a sniper and falls to the ground. As he dies, he hears his mother's voice calling out, "Andy, you'll come back. You've got to. You promised." The voice becomes sinister and muffled as Andy's eyes close. Sometime later, his family receives notice of his death in combat.
, 1h38Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Bunta Sugawara, Nobuo Kaneko, Akira Kobayashi, Kin'ya Kitaōji, Shingo Yamashiro, Kunie Tanaka
Following the previous film, Shozo Hirono is serving seven years in prison and Akira Takeda was released from prison on a technicality. Takeda then united all the families in the Hiroshima region, shed their yakuza image, and formed the Tensei Coalition political party. In August 1965, Takeda is leader as Chairman, Katsutoshi Otomo is Vice Chairman, Tamotsu Matsumura is Managing Director, Hideo Hayakawa is Secretary General, and Shoichi Eda a Director. Hirono's men get into an altercation with some low-level Tensei members. Elder yakuza Otomo and Hayakawa demand the instigators should have to commit yubitsume, however, after a vote the Coalition agrees to let Matsumura handle discipline on account of wanting to avoid the rituals tied to yakuza for their public image. In 1966, Hirono's friend Terukichi Ichioka has a Tensei financial adviser killed and attends the funeral, angering Otomo who openly vows to take him on. However, Takeda threatens that anyone who responds to the attack will be expelled from Tensei.
, 1h41Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Takeshi Katō, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko
In fall 1963, the police crack down on yakuza activities nationwide due to public outcry and in preparation for the upcoming 1964 Summer Olympics. However, the war between the Yamamori family and Shinwa Group versus the Uchimoto, Hirono, and Akashi families wages on. Noburo Uchimoto, Shozo Hirono and Shinichi Iwai recruit Hidemitsu Kawada and Tomoji Okajima, the usually neutral leader of the Gisei Group, to their side. When Masakichi Makihara's men kill a member of Hirono's family he wants to go after Yamamori himself, however retired yakuza and Hirono's adviser Kenichi Okubo stops him. Akira Takeda threatened Okubo to keep Hirono in Kure, as Yamamori has fled to Hiroshima City while Makihara's men stay to fight Hirono's.