Top Action Movies


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

141. 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.

142. Thor: Ragnarok

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Taika Waititi
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Karl Urban
Plot: The return of Hela, goddess of death, sets in motion Ragnarok, which will destroy Asgard and all of its people. Thor races back home and races against time to prevent these end times against his people, but what will he do when he loses the power of his mighty hammer, Mjolnir and then is pitted against the Hulk in a gladiatorial match.

143. Cowboy Bebop

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Actors: Steven Jay Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn
Plot: Three bounty hunters investigate a truck explosion in order to get an enormous bounty.

144. The Italian Job

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: F. Gary Gray
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Edward Norton
Plot: A group of thieves pull off the ultimate heist in Venice, Italy, but are betrayed by one of their own. In order to make things right, a second heist is planned to reclaim their share and get back at the betrayer.

145. Jet Li's: Fearless ( Huo Yuan Jia )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ronny Yu
Actors: Jet Li, Yong Dong, Betty Sun, Nathan Jones
Plot: A Chinese Martial Arts Master goes through a personal journey and learns that he has the power to unit a country.

146. Mission: Impossible

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames
Plot: A super American spy agent must uncover the mystery why he was set up and what parties were involved with his team of spies.

147. John Wick: Chapter Two

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chad Stahelski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Common, Ruby Rose
Plot: John Wick wants nothing more than to leave his former life behind but an associate, one he is tied to by blood oath, calls on his help when he puts a plan in motion to take over an international assassins' guild. The call leads him to Rome, where he will square off against some of the world's deadliest assassins and hitmen.

148. Total Recall

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox
Plot: A man, Arnold Schwarzenegger, goes on a virtual reality vacation to mars but when things start getting odd and dangerous he finds himself traveling to Mars for real to get a hold of things.

149. Blade

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Norrington
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Udo Kier
Plot: Blade's mother was bit by a vampire while she was pregnant with him. In turn he doesn't have any of the weaknesses of other vampires and spends his life hunting them down.

150. Killer, The ( Dip huet seung hung )

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kenneth Tsang
Plot: A humane assassin Ah Jong (Chow Yun-fat) from the Triad tries to perform his last job to aid a club singer's fate of becoming blind. Police detective Li Ying (Danny Lee) hopes to bring a criminal to justice in any possible way.

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