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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is John Carpenter's low-budget siege thriller, an homage to Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead, starring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston, a 1976 US failure that became a cult classic.
Cleopatra Jones
Cleopatra Jones is a 1973 Warner Bros. blaxploitation action film directed by Jack Starrett, starring Tamara Dobson as a federal agent fighting drug lord Mommy (Shelley Winters), with a 1975 sequel.
Foxy Brown (film)
Foxy Brown (1974) is a Jack Hill blaxploitation revenge film starring Pam Grier, made for AIP for $500,000 in 18 days; it inspired Tarantino's Jackie Brown and later restorations.
Goldfinger (film)
Goldfinger (1964) is the third Eon James Bond film, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, and Honor Blackman, adapting Fleming's novel; Bond thwarts Goldfinger's Fort Knox raid. 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film)
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) is H.B. "Toby" Halicki's independent car-chase film about thief Maindrian Pace and the yellow Mustang Eleanor, famous for a 40-minute chase destroying 93 cars and a $40 million gross, remade in 2000.
Hell Drivers
Hell Drivers is a 1957 British trucking crime drama directed by blacklisted American Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, and a young Sean Connery, shot in VistaVision.
Hellfighters
Hellfighters is a 1968 Universal adventure drama directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring John Wayne as oil well firefighter Chance Buckman, based on Red Adair, who served as technical advisor; premiered in Houston, December 1968.
Maula Jatt (مولا جٹ)
Maula Jatt (مولا جٹ) is a 1979 Pakistani Punjabi action film directed by Younis Malik, starring Sultan Rahi and Mustafa Qureshi; a record-breaking, censored cult classic that spawned the gandasa genre and the 2022 remake The Legend of Maula Jatt.
The Eiger Sanction (film)
The Eiger Sanction (1975) is a Clint Eastwood action thriller, based on Trevanian's novel, about assassin-art professor Jonathan Hemlock climbing the Eiger's north face to kill a target; Eastwood did his own climbing stunts, and a crew member died during filming.
The Gauntlet (film)
The Gauntlet (1977) is a Clint Eastwood action thriller, also called L'Épreuve de force, in which Eastwood directs himself as Phoenix cop Ben Shockley escorting witness Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas to Phoenix; its armored-bus finale took over 8,000 bullets and it earned about $24 million worldwide.
The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu is a 1932 MGM pre-Code horror film directed by Charles Brabin, starring Boris Karloff as Sax Rohmer's villain and Myrna Loy as Fah Lo See; notorious for racist stereotypes, profitable in 1932, censored in 1972 and 1992, restored uncut on 2024 Blu-ray.
The Mechanic (1972 film)
The Mechanic is a 1972 American crime thriller directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent as a hitman and his apprentice.
The Warriors (film)
The Warriors is Walter Hill's 1979 Paramount action film, also known as a cult classic, adapted from Sol Yurick's 1965 novel and Xenophon's Anabasis. A Coney Island gang framed for a gang leader's murder fights home across New York; its release sparked a 1979 cinema-violence panic.
Truck Turner
Truck Turner is a 1974 American International Pictures blaxploitation action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Isaac Hayes as a Los Angeles bounty hunter targeted by pimps after killing Gator, with Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols and a Hayes double-LP soundtrack.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is Monte Hellman's 1971 Universal road film starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird, and Warren Oates in a cross-country race for car pink slips; a box-office flop later canonized in the National Film Registry (2012) and released by Criterion.
Vanishing Point (1971 film)
Vanishing Point is a 1971 American-British road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian, starring Barry Newman as a driver racing a Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco.
Walking Tall (1973 film)
Walking Tall (1973) is a Phil Karlson biographical action drama starring Joe Don Baker as Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser; a $500,000 Bing Crosby Productions film that grossed tens of millions, spawned sequels and a 2004 remake, and whose hero was implicated in 2025 in his wife's 1967 murder.
White Lightning (1973 film)
White Lightning (1973), also known by working titles McKluskey and McKlusky, is a Joseph Sargent action film starring Burt Reynolds as moonshine runner Gator McKlusky, shot in Arkansas, with Ned Beatty and Laura Dern's film debut.