Top Action Movies


The Top Action Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Action List". Lists are calculated daily.

481. Colossal

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Actors: Dan Stevens, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Tim Blake Nelson, Austin Stowell, Rukiya Bernard
Plot: Gloria spends most of her time drinking - a fact that has caused her boyfriend to break up with her, forcing her out and in to a house left vacant by her parents. While she struggles with a mental breakdown, she becomes convinced she is the cause of a series of catastrophic events.

482. Innerspace

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis
Plot: A cocky pilot is miniaturized in revolutionary experiment, but when terrorists intervene, he gets injected into a hypochondriac instead of a rabbit. Inside the meek man, he has to foil the plot while trying to keep them both alive.

483. To Live and Die in L.A.

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Turturro, John Pankow, Dean Stockwell, Robert Downey Sr.
Plot: A pair of L.A. cops are on the trail of a master counterfeiter. When one of them is killed, his partner swears revenge, no matter the cost, and finds the law he once swore to uphold fall apart as he will do anything to avenge his partner.

484. The Lackey

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shaun Paul Piccinino, Jason Sanders
Actors: Shaun Paul Piccinino, Vernon Wells, Rickey Bird Jr., Jeremy Dunn, Guy A. Grundy, Lauren Parkinson

485. Ladder 49

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jay Russell
Actors: John Travolta, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Patrick, Jacinda Barrett, Billy Burke, Kevin Chapman
Plot: Two firefighters, one young and one old, go through the daily grinds of being a full time firefighter while the older preps the younger for a full life of action and drama.

486. I Am Number Four

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: D.J. Caruso
Actors: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe, Kevin Durand
Plot: Nine Lorien aliens flee to Earth after their home planet was destroyed by another alien species, the Mogadorians. On Earth, the Loriens have superhuman powers as they become adults. The Mogadorians have followed the Loriens to Earth in order to kill them in succession. The first three have been killed, but Number Four is not willing to give up so easily.

487. National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Helen Mirren
Plot: Gates is back at it again as he tries to solve the mystery of President Lincoln's death. The key lies within the missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary.

488. Executive Decision

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stuart Baird
Actors: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton
Plot: Terrorists hijack a 747 bound for Washington D.C. in order to release their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant thinks there's a more sinister plot going on and joins a commando team for a mid-air operation before the plane can land.

489. Lost World: Jurassic Park

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn, Arliss Howard
Plot: Ian Malcolm learns that there was another island before Jurassic Park, and that dinosaurs have been breeding unchecked and a group of scientists, including Malcolm's wife, have been sent to study the them in their natural habitat. Soon they are joined by an InGen group who plan to start a new park in San Diego.

490. Dragons Forever ( Fei lung mang jeung )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Corey Yuen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Biao Yuen, Pauline Yeung, Deannie Yip, Wah Yuen
Plot: A chemical plant in Hong Kong with questionable ethics hires a young, hot-shot lawyer to protect them. But when the lawyer falls for a woman who will stop at nothing to get the plant shut down, he looks into the issue himself and doesn't like what he finds. Calling in his two most trusted friends Samo and Biao - he will get to the bottom of things, no matter the cost.

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