Top Action Movies


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

411. Grandmaster, The ( Yi dai zong shi )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Cung Le, Hye-kyo Song, Siu-Lung Leung
Plot: A biography of the great martial arts master Ip Man - the legendary man who would train and mentor Bruce Lee.

412. Hombre

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Margaret Blye, Val Avery
Plot: A white boy, raised by Apaches, goes out into the real world and finds a purpose in defending a stagecoach from an ambush by a gang of thugs.

413. Cop Land

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo
Plot: A small-town sheriff comes up against some big city cops who may or may not have connections to the mob.

414. Rambo: First Blood Part 2

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Martin Kove, George Cheung
Plot: Rambo is needed to take pictures of a POW camp, so that the POW's can eventually be rescued. But, he ends up trying to rescue them himself.

415. Courage Under Fire

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Bronson Pinchot
Plot: Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling is investigating the case of Captain Karen Walden, and helicopter pilot and the first woman who would be awarded the Medal of Honor. Conflicting reports from survivors of a crash in which she saved the crew shed doubt in Serling's mind as he wrestles with his own conscience.

416. Predators

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nimród Antal
Actors: Topher Grace, Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Derek Mears
Plot: Mercenaries, criminals, cold-blooded killers - a group find themselves on alien planet where they find the predators have become the prey and they must come together if they have any hope of survival.

417. Free Guy

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery, Jodie Comer, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Plot: When an ordinary bank teller finds out he is actually just a background character in a massive open-world video game, he decides to write his own story and becomes the hero, not just any guy.

418. Wave, The ( Bølgen )

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roar Uthaug
Actors: Kristoffer Joner, Thomas Bo Larsen, Ane Dahl Torp, Fridtjov Såheim, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud-Sande
Plot: It is taken as fact that the mountain pass of Åkneset, located above the Norwegian fjord Geiranger will one day fall, resulting in a massive tsunami. But for one geologist, just about to leave his post for a new position, the day arrives much too quickly and he must scramble to save those he loves from disaster.

419. Nobody

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Actors: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, J.P. Manoux, Humberly González, Gage Munroe
Plot: Hutch Mansell is the perfectly typical father and husband, in a perfectly overlooked life - your average nobody. But things change when he thwarts a home invasion and something inside of him, a simmering rage, finally snaps and causes him to push back. Now in the sights of a drug kingpin he will uncover long-buried secrets and dangerous skills in order to protect his family - and remind everyone he will be a nobody no more.

420. The Running Man

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Erland van Lidth
Plot: A wrongfully-accused man breaks out of a max-prison facility only to be caught again and forced to participate in the hit reality TV show "The Running Man" where he will be forced to fight or flee from sadistic killers.

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