Top Action Movies


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

121. Red

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban
Plot: A former black-ops agent finds himself the target of assassination and in order to survive, reaches out to his former team.

122. American Sniper

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Luke Grimes, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner
Plot: The story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who recounts his military career, which includes more than 150 confirmed kills.

123. House of Flying Daggers ( Shi mian mai fu )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Dandan Song
Plot: A heroic warrior breaks an friend out of prison from a rival when romance, possible betrayal and deception occurs.

124. Mad Max

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley
Plot: Australia has become a nightmare in a future where biker gangs control the roads and society is all but lost. One cop takes the law into his own hands after a brutal gang murders his partner, wife and young son.

125. Ip Man ( Yip Man )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wilson Yip
Actors: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka Tung Lam
Plot: An occupying Japanese general challenges Chinese men to duels so he can prove the superiority of the Japanese. Ip Man refuses to fight, but can resist for only so long.

126. Real Steel

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kevin Durand, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie
Plot: In the future boxing is a popular sport, but it's fought by giant robots instead of humans. A struggling promoter finds a junked robot he thinks he can turn into a champion while trying to connect with his young son.

127. The Karate Kid

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Ralph Macchio, Elisabeth Shue, Pat Morita, Martin Kove
Plot: A boy who movies into a new neighborhood, meets his Japanese neighbor who choses to teach him Karate, but that there is more to it than just fighting.

128. The Abyss

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester
Plot: The Abyss is an underwater story of civilian oil rig workers who are told to help rescue a nuclear sub that sunk for unknown reasons.

129. John Wick: Chapter 4

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chad Stahelski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne
Plot: John Wick has one, final chance at earning true freedom: take down The High Table. He has a chance but before he can act, a new enemy with powerful allies across the globe plots to take him out and even old friends become enemies in the fight.

130. 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.

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