Top Action Movies


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

491. Nice Dreams

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tommy Chong
Actors: Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Benita Barrie, Sandra Bernhard, Tony Cox, Peter Jason
Plot: Two loser potheads are making a living selling weed out of an ice cream
truck when one them gets an idea.

492. The Crazies

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Breck Eisner
Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson, Preston Bailey, Lisa K. Wyatt
Plot: In a small town a group of people must try to survive when a contaminated water supply drives most of the people insane.

493. Battle of the Bulge

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ken Annakin
Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery, Charles Bronson
Plot: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander.

494. My Way ( Mai wei )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Je-kyu Kang
Actors: Dong-gun Jang, Jô Odagiri, Bingbing Fan, In-kwon Kim, Seung-hyeon Han, Jin-seok Yang
Plot: Follows the life of Jun-shik Kim and Tatsuo Hasegawa from dreams of
Olympic glory to the beaches of Normandy.

495. Pacific Rim

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Clifton Collins Jr.
Plot: When monstrous creatures from the sea dubbed Kaiju attack, it pushes the human race to the edge of annihilation. Countering the force with massive robots known as Jaegers, two human pilots linked by a neural bridge take on the Kaiju. Yet even this force seems to be no match, and after years of fighting it comes down to a washed-up pilot, an untested rookie and an aged Jaeger to stand up for humanity.

496. Takers

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Luessenhop
Actors: Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana, Jay Hernandez, T.I.
Plot: A dedicated group of bank robbers think they have the perfect plan to take down $20 million, but a determined detective aims to take them down.

497. Defender, The ( Zhong Nan Hai bao biao )

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kazuya Konaka, Corey Yuen
Actors: Jet Li, Collin Chou, Christy Chung, William Chu, Kent Cheng, Wai-Kwok Ng
Plot: A woman with close ties to the Chinese government witnesses a murder by a corrupt businessman and, before she can testify, it is decided to put her in protective custody of the police and a bodyguard. But while protecting her, the defender finds himself falling for her.

498. The Matrix Revolutions

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Harold Perrineau, Jada Pinkett-Smith
Plot: Neo is the key to saving both The Matrix and the real world as the mechanical army bears down on Zion and Agent Smith puts his final plans in motion.

499. Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jason Reitman
Actors: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Sigourney Weaver, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Bill Murray
Plot: When a mother and two children move to the old family countryside home, they discover a secret their grandfather left behind - and with the help of an expert on the "Ghostbusters", discover a family legacy - just in time to stop a new paranormal uprising.

500. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Liu
Actors: Clancy Brown, Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, Xander Berkeley, Corey Burton, Allison Mack
Plot: In the ultimate play for power, megalomaniacal villain Lex Luthor pits Superman and Batman against the public by stripping away their hard-earned superhero status and re-branding them as rogue outcasts who can't be trusted.

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