VOICE OVER: Rebecca Brayton Written by Richard Bush

Maverick cops, gritty crime dramas, mixed genres and loosening limitations on language and violence meant this decade was Hollywood's most badass one yet. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 action movies of the 1970s. These are the films from the 1970s that delivered particularly memorable and iconic thrills when it came to action sequences. And just to be clear, we've taken all genres into consideration for this list.

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