Top Action Movies


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

171. The Transporter

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen
Actors: Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze, François Berléand, Ric Young, Doug Rand
Plot: A loner, ex-soldier works as a "transporter" delivering any package, person or cargo, no questions asked. Abiding by a strict set of rules, he's about to find that breaking the rules leads to more trouble than he could ever imagine.

172. Snowpiercer

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Ah-sung Ko, Ed Harris
Plot: The near future: a second ice age has wiped out most of humanity. The
survivors travel by train through the cold, lonely world - but even here,
at humanities end, class division rears its ugly head - and those as the
back of the train are ready to revolt.

173. Rocky II

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton
Plot: Rocky takes another shot at Apollo Creed, who will win this time?

174. The Great Mouse Detective

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
Actors: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Diana Chesney
Plot: Basil of Baker Street is the rodent equal to Sherlock Holmes. When a toymaker is abducted, a young mouse turns to the great detective to find her missing father. As his investigation goes deeper, a simple kidnapping leads to plot against the Crown itself.

175. Sherlock Jr.

Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Plot: A movie projectionist dreams of being a detective.

176. The Batman

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: It has been two years since Bruce Wayne took on the alter ego of Batman in order to protect Gotham City. But now he faces something he could never foresee - corruption at the highest echelons that lead back to his own family as well as taking on a deranged serial killer known as The Riddler.

177. Equilibrium

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Actors: Dominic Purcell, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Christian Kahrmann, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson
Plot: In the near future, humans are living in one giant city under the strictest government control. Monks keep the peace and maintain the current status quo, but what happens when they open their eyes to the big picture, freedom?

178. Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam )

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Hoi-Shan Kwan
Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory, the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation.

179. Rescue Dawn

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Pat Healy, Toby Huss
Plot: A Vietnam Fighter Pilot is shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War and he struggles to survive.

180. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Actors: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Jake Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry
Plot: A multi-verse of Spider-beings awaits Miles Morales after a villain named Spot - one he helped create - gains the power to travel through the various worlds. But even though he thinks he has friends Gwen and Peter B. Parker, the master of the self-proclaimed master of the spider-verse, Miguel O'Hara - thinks Miles himself represents the biggest threat to the threads that hold all the worlds together.

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