Top Action Movies


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

301. Tarzan and His Mate

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cedric Gibbons
Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Forrester Harvey, Nathan Curry
Plot: The perfect life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged when men on safari, seeking ivory, seek Jane out as well.

302. Legend of Drunken Master, The ( Jui kuen II )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Actors: Jackie Chan, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Chia-Liang Liu, Ken Lo
Plot: To battle a group of smugglers, dutiful son Fei-Hung must use his patented "Drunken Boxing" fighting style, in which a swig of alcohol empowers him to defeat his foes.

303. Sword of Doom, The ( Dai-bosatsu tôge )

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuzo Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Naito, Tadao Nakamaru
Plot: A talented but remorseless samurai kills without feeling - but the brother of a man murdered in a duel vows revenge as the samurai succumbs to madness.

304. Quantum of Solace

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton
Plot: After interrogating Mr. White, James Bond learns of a secret organization, Quantum, behind the blackmail and death of Vesper. Teaming up with a woman who has her own vendetta, Bond follows Dominic Greene a ruthless businessman with plans to control one of the world's most important natural resources no matter the cost.

305. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Actors: Simu Liu, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Awkwafina, Fala Chen, Ben Kingsley, Meng'er Zhang
Plot: Having been raised to be a human weapon for the family business of high-profile assassination, instead Shang-Chi has left behind that life for some sense of normalcy on the streets of San Francisco. But an inevitable family reunion from his father means he will have to face his past and put his training to the ultimate test.

306. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell, Reece Ritchie
Plot: Based on the video game: A street-urchin-turned prince controls a dagger that can turn back time. He must team up with a rival princess to stop a series of assassins and a man bent on unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.

307. Furious 7

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Wan
Actors: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez
Plot: Following the death of his brother at the hands of Dominic Toretto and his eclectic crew, the cold, calculated Ian Shaw vows vengeance - and no one is safe from his reach.

308. Backdraft

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn
Plot: A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and the rest of his squad while dealing with a string of arson/murders.

309. Daybreakers

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Jay Laga'aia, Claudia Karvan
Plot: In 2019 most of the population has been transformed into vampires by a plague. With the blood supply dwindling, groups plot their survival while an underground group secretly works on a cure to reclaim humanity.

310. Ichi the Killer ( Koroshiya 1 )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun, Susumu Terajima, Shun Sugata
Plot: A sadistic Yakuza gangster searches for the man responsible of killing his boss. An ex-cop has a deranged killer of his own and between the two, the streets will run red with blood.

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