Top Action Movies


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

131. Captain America: The First Avenger

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell
Plot: After being turned down by the military, Steve Rogers participates in a top secret research project. The result is becoming Captain America - an enhanced soldier who dedicates his life to defending the American way of life.

132. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.3 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
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.

133. Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, William Sadler
Plot: Waiting for his wife at Dulles International Airport, John McClane is once again in the right place at the wrong time. A group of terrorists are plotting to release a drug kingpin and hold the entire airport hostage, including all the planes in the air. If they had known one of the planes held McClane's wife Holly, they would have waited.

134. Sanjuro

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama
Plot: The wandering samurai once again finds his services are needed, this time helping a group of naive samurai fight the corruption in their town.

135. Duel

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Tim Herbert
Plot: A man plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a driver of an 18-wheeler.

136. Iron Man 3

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Shane Black
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce
Plot: Tony Stark has just helped save the world from an intergalactic threat, but he faces a new, deadly enemy - one who brings low all he has built and seeks to destroy all he holds dear. With his back against the wall, he will have to rely on his own instinct and ingenuity to save the ones he cares about the most.

137. The Hunt for Red October

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
Plot: When Marko Ramius goes rogue and takes a revolutionary nuclear submarie to the U.S. the government is quick to judge him a threat, but CIA analyst Jack Ryan believes he is defecting. With the Russian and American navy both after the sub, it's only a matter of time before tough decisions will have to made on everyone's part.

138. The Count of Monte Cristo

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Actors: Guy Pearce, James Caviezel, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris
Plot: A jealous friend wrongfully imprison one of his best friends only for the imprisoned man to seek revenge using money to pull the man into submission.

139. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Dominik
Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Mary-Louise Parker
Plot: Robert Ford, on of Jesse James men, hatches a plot to kill James.

140. The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joss Whedon
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo
Plot: The Avengers are obsolete - the US government has created the ultimate force, Ultron, to protect them. Yet when Ultron turns on his creators and threatens humanity itself, once again The Avengers assemble to face their greatest challenge yet.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment?