Best 29 Action Movies Award-Winning Released in 1978

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero. Find out about Superman / IMDB / YouTube

Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts. Learn about Drunken Master / IMDB / YouTube

The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde. Get info on Every Which Way But Loose / IMDB / YouTube

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. Learn about Capricorn One / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy. Info on Force 10 from Navarone / IMDB / YouTube

Truckers form a mile-long convoy in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall. Read about Convoy / IMDB / YouTube

A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective. More about The Driver / IMDB / YouTube

A school student who conspires with his teacher and others to overthrow the Qing Dynasty sees his family slaughtered at the hands of his enemies. He joins the Shaolin Temple and rigorously studies martial arts to avenge his beloved ones. Check out The 36th Chamber of Shaolin / IMDB / YouTube

A British banker hires a former British Army colonel turned mercenary to parachute into Africa with his team and rescue a deposed president of a southern African nation from the hands of a corrupt dictator. More about The Wild Geese / IMDB / YouTube

Don, a wanted criminal, dies in a police chase. DSP D'Silva is the only one who knows about his death, and to get hold of the gang he trains Don-lookalike Vijay. But Vijay faces danger from the police and from within the gang. Learn about Don / IMDB / YouTube

An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar. Learn about Snake in the Eagle's Shadow / IMDB / YouTube

A recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible. Get info on Rolling Thunder / IMDB / YouTube

In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies. Learn about The Inglorious Bastards / IMDB / YouTube

A Navy detective enlists his brother, a former gambler, to help him liquidate an illegal gaming house on a yacht near Miami. Find out about Odds and Evens / IMDB / YouTube

A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall. Look into F.I.S.T. / IMDB / YouTube

The sixth and final disciple of a dying martial arts master is instructed to find the master's five former disciples, each specializing in their own unique kung fu style, and defeat any evil ones amongst them. Read about Five Deadly Venoms / IMDB / YouTube

Aging Hollywood stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky, under-recognized line of work. Find out about Hooper / IMDB / YouTube

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager. Get info on Paradise Alley / IMDB / YouTube

After his fishing boat is periscoped, ex US footballer Bulldozer docks in an Italian port, where local criminals and American soldiers fight each other. Locals discover Bulldozer's talents and challenge the Yanks to a football game. Explore Lo chiamavano Bulldozer / IMDB / YouTube

Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediatlz before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Riyyo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo. See more about Knock-Out Cop / IMDB / YouTube

An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next. Learn about Good Guys Wear Black / IMDB / YouTube

A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge. See more about Gray Lady Down / IMDB / YouTube

A Vietnam veteran involves his Wife and a war buddy in the dangerous world of drug smuggling. Explore Who'll Stop the Rain / IMDB / YouTube

A Vietnam War veteran who's been imprisoned for murder is offered freedom if he agrees to commit a contract killing for a shady organization. Info on The Domino Principle / IMDB / YouTube

Three men who have been physically disabled by a vindictive martial arts master and his physically-disabled son ally together and learn kung fu from an elderly martial-artist and his mentally-disabled pupil, so they can avenge themselves. Read about Crippled Avengers / IMDB / YouTube

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother. Learn about Fingers / IMDB / YouTube

A martial arts book, which Hsu Yin-Fung carries, is being highly sought by various clans and gangs, but he is in pursuit of someone himself. Find out about Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin / IMDB / YouTube

A Chinese man marries a Japanese martial artist, and they begin to bicker over which country has the better martial arts. It reaches a point where he has to go against Japanese martial artists in different styles to prove who's the best. Learn about Heroes of the East / IMDB / YouTube

A young martial artist embarks on an adventure, encountering other martial artists in battle until one day he meets an aging blind man who will show him the true meaning of martial arts and life. Info on Circle of Iron / IMDB / YouTube