Best action films 1961 – 1970 - Charts
Best action films 1961 – 1970
1. Harakiri (1962)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni
3. The Longest Day (1962)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Cast: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka
6. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Italy / Spain, Western / Action
Directed by: Sergio Leone
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch
7. Waterloo (1970)
Italy / Soviet Union, Drama / Action
Directed by: Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer
8. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
UK / USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood
9. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
UK / USA, Action / War
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine
10. The Wild Bunch (1969)
USA, Western / Action
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine
11. Battle of Britain (1969)
UK, War / Drama
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine
12. Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Cast: Tetsurô Tamba, Isamu Nagato
13. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
14. Samurai Assassin (1965)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
15. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
USA / Japan, War / Action
Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura
16. The Train (1964)
USA / France, Thriller / War
Directed by: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield
17. From Russia with Love (1963)
UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi
18. The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Kôichi Aihara
19. Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Kazuo Ikehiro
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 若山富三郎
20. Zatoichi on the Road (1963)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 藤村志保
21. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: John Guillermin
Cast: George Segal, Ben Gazzara
22. Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
Japan, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai
23. Thunderball (1965)
UK / USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger
24. Dr. No (1962)
UK, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress
25. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Japan, Drama / Action
Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Toshirō Mifune
27. Zatoichi, the Fugitive (1963)
Japan, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Tokuzō Tanaka
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Tōru Abe
28. You Only Live Twice (1967)
UK / USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi
32. The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kazuo Mori
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 若山富三郎
33. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
USA / Yugoslavia, War / Adventure
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven
34. Kill! (1968)
Japan, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Kubo
36. Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
Japan, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 山本學
37. An Elephant Called Slowly (1970)
UK, Comedy / Action
Directed by: James Hill
Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
38. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
USA / Yugoslavia, War / Action
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas
39. The Misfits (1961)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe
40. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
UK / USA, Action / Fantasy
Directed by: Don Chaffey
Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack
41. Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
Japan, Drama / Action
Directed by: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Takashi Shimura
42. Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kazuo Ikehiro
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 左卜全
43. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle
44. Zatoichi's Cane-sword (1967)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 藤村志保
45. Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Nobuo Kaneko
46. Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Tadashi Imai
Cast: Kinnosuke Yorozuya, Masayuki Mori
48. The Great Race (1965)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
49. Greed in the Sun (1964)
France / Italy, Adventure / Action
Directed by: Henri Verneuil
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura
50. Shinobi no mono (1962)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Satsuo Yamamoto
Cast: Raizō Ichikawa, 藤村志保
51. Thirteen Assassins, The (1963)
Japan, Historical / Action
Directed by: 工藤栄一
Cast: 片岡千恵蔵, Kō Nishimura
52. Tenchu! (1969)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai
53. Dragon Inn (1967)
Taiwan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: King Hu, Chung Hsun Tu
Cast: Chun Shih, Polly Kuan
54. Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Japan, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Tatsuo Matsumura
55. Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)
Japan, Drama / Action
Directed by: Kenji Misumi
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Kō Nishimura
57. Cash Calls Hell (1966)
Japan, Action / Drama
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa
58. Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kazuo Mori
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Sachiko Murase
59. Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, 平幹二朗
60. A Game Without Rules (1967)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jindřich Polák
Cast: Svatopluk Matyáš, Jiří Adamíra
61. Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Akira Inoue
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Norihei Miki
62. God Forgives... (1967)
Italy / Spain, Western / Action
Directed by: Giuseppe Colizzi
Cast: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
63. Branded to Kill (1967)
Japan, Action / Crime
Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Jô Shishido, Mariko Ogawa
64. Samurai Wolf (1966)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Cast: 夏八木勲, Junko Miyazono
65. Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969)
Hong Kong, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Cheh Chang
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao
66. La morte in Jaguar rossa (1968)
West Germany / Italy, Action / Crime
Directed by: Harald Reinl
Cast: George Nader, Carl Lange
67. The Italian Job (1969)
UK / Italy, Action / Crime
Directed by: Peter Collinson
Cast: Michael Caine, Noël Coward
69. Django (1966)
Italy / Spain, Western / Action
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Franco Nero, José Bódalo
70. Blood and Guns (1969)
Italy / Spain, Western / Adventure
Directed by: Giulio Petroni
Cast: Tomas Milian, Orson Welles
71. One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
Hong Kong, Action / Drama
Directed by: Cheh Chang
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao
72. Samurai Wolf II (1967)
Japan, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Hideo Gosha
Cast: 夏八木勲, Junko Miyazono
73. The Assassin (1967)
Hong Kong, Action / Drama
Directed by: Cheh Chang
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao
75. The War Wagon (1967)
USA, Western / Action
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
Cast: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas
77. We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
Italy, Crime / Action
Directed by: Elio Petri
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas
78. Castle of Owls (1963)
Japan, Historical / Action
Directed by: 工藤栄一
Cast: Ryutaro Otomo, Hizuru Takachiho
79. Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Japan / USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Satsuo Yamamoto
Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Rentarô Mikuni
80. Too Late the Hero (1970)
USA, Action / War
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson
81. The Devil's Brigade (1968)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: William Holden, Cliff Robertson
82. Dark of the Sun (1968)
UK, War / Adventure
Directed by: Jack Cardiff
Cast: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux
83. The Gypsy Moths (1969)
USA, Drama / Action
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr
84. Youth of the Beast (1963)
Japan, Action / Crime
Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Jô Shishido, Seijun Suzuki
86. Novye priklyucheniya neulovimykh (1968)
Soviet Union, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Edmond Keosayan
Cast: Michail Meťolkin, Vasilij Vasiljev
87. Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Italy, Western / Action
Directed by: Giulio Petroni
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law
88. Monsieur Gangster (1963)
France / West Germany, Comedy / Action
Directed by: Georges Lautner
Cast: Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier
89. Shock Troops (1967)
France / Italy, Action / War
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy
91. The Tough and the Mighty (1969)
Italy, Action / Drama
Directed by: Carlo Lizzani
Cast: Terence Hill, Frank Wolff
92. Death Sentence (1968)
Italy, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Mario Lanfranchi
Cast: Robin Clarke, Tomas Milian
93. Vertical (1966)
Soviet Union, Action
Directed by: Борис Валентинович Дуров, Stanislav Govorukhin
Cast: Larisa Luzhina, Vladimir Vysotskiy
95. Duel of the Titans (1961)
Italy / France, Action / Drama
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
Cast: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott
96. The Rare Breed (1966)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara
97. Dynamit in grüner Seide (1968)
West Germany / Italy, Action / Thriller
Directed by: Harald Reinl
Cast: George Nader, Carl Möhner
98. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
UK, Action / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris
