Top Action Movies


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

451. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Actors: George Lazenby, Telly Savalas, Diana Rigg, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell
Plot: George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond. Blofeld plans to spread a deadly virus across the world. Bond teams up with an Italian gangster to thwart SPECTRE. In the end, Bond loses his wife.

452. X-Men: The Last Stand

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brett Ratner
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer
Plot: When a cure for genetic mutation is announced, Professor Xavier must
contend with Magneto's Brotherhood, who will stop at nothing to eliminate
the source.

453. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kazuhisa Takenôchi
Actors: Romanthony, Thomas Bangalter
Plot: The Animated film adaptation to the Daft Punk album Discovery. The story line follows a group of Musicians from an alien planet who are kidnapped by a big name record company CEO from Earth so he may exploit their talents for his own personal game. He soon over-books and over-works them tiring them.

454. Hostage

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Actors: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker
Plot: A failed hostage negotiator leaves L.A. for small-town life with his family. A burglary gone wrong leads to a family being taken hostage. A father with a secret and a criminal on edge will lead to deadly showdown.

455. The War Wagon

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Bruce Cabot, Bruce Dern
Plot: Surviving being shot - and imprisoned - a man recently released hatches a plan to get back the gold that was stolen from him. He joins forces with the same man who shot him in order to take down "the War Wagon", a heavily-armored stage coach that houses the gold.

456. Civil War

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons
Plot: In a near-future America torn apart by a new civil war, a group of
military-embedded journalists goes cross-country to reach DC before an
impending attack by a rebel faction and their story is fraught with
horrors and danger that war brings.

457. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto
Plot: After being robbed, Mad Max finds himself at the mercy of Bartertown, where he finds himself in a power struggle between the cruel Aunt Entity and her rival Master Blaster. Things go from bad to worse as he is banished to the desert but finds refuge from a group of orphans looking for a leader.

458. Cartel Land

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthew Heineman
Actors: Dr. Jose Mireles, Tim "Nailer" Foley
Plot: This is the real war on drugs - on the border between the U.S and Mexico, various agencies, vigilante groups and the Mexican drug cartels battle. Matthew Heineman gives us access to each group, and the people behind them, and asks if meeting violence with violence will solve anything.

459. Assassin, The ( Nie yin niang )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Actors: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shao-Huai Chang, Dahong Ni, Fang-yi Sheu
Plot: During the Tang Dynasty period in China, Nie Yinniang returns from exhile with a new mission - to oust the tyrannical governors who will not submit to the authority of the emperor. But she is faced with a dilemma when she has to choose between the man she loves and following the "order of the Assassins".

460. The Quick and the Dead

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell, Keith David
Plot: A lone woman rides into a small town seeking revenge. The self-proclaimed "leader" Herod has set up a gun-fighting competition - and he makes the rules, starting by entering the town preacher, who has vowed never to kill another man again.

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