Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
Velvet Smooth (1975)
- Dir. Michael Fink
Feat. Johnnie Hill
- Minor blaxploitation starlet Johnnie Hill gets to strut her stuff as a "fighting whirlwind" in this cheesey 70s effort.
Wind and the Lion, The (1975)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Sean Connery, Candice Bergen
- Connery plays a Moroccan sheik who kidnaps American Bergin, angering the US government. Old fashioned epic based loosely on fact.
Yakuza, The (1975)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura
- Mitchum challenges the sword and secrets of the Japanese Mafia in this accomplished actioner written by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne.
Airport 1975 (1974)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy…
- First sequel to the 'disaster' blockbuster of 1970, this places its star–cast in a disabled Boeing 747 with both pilots down and the chief…
Black Belt Jones (1974)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Jim Kelly
- Jim Kelly (a former international middleweight karate champion) battles the Mafia to save his school of self–defense in this…
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Warren Oates, Kris Kristofferson, Gig Young…
- One of the director's best, a modern–day western set in Mexico, with wash–out gringo Warren Oates questing for the bounty–prize…
Death Wish (1974)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson
- Charles Bronson became a household name in the role of a New York businessman who takes the law into his own hands after his wife and daughter are…
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke…
- Countercultural couple Mary and Larry commandeer a muscle car, a mechanic, and a whole lotta highway in this hard and fast rev–up of the chase…
Foxy Brown (1974)
- Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter…
- Badass Pam Grier vehicle from director Jack Hill, the "Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking" according to Tarantino.
When mobsters murder her…
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
- Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. James Caan, Alan Arkin, Valerie Harper…
- A genre–twisting cop film from the dir. of THE STUNT MAN, that has cops Caan and Arkin in pursuit of a gangster and leaving an immense trail of…