Top Action Movies


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

131. 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, Tim Burns, Roger Ward
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.

132. 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, Kimberly Scott, Todd Graff
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.

133. Shadow ( Ying )

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng, Qianyuan Wang, Jingchun Wang, Jun Hu
Plot: During the Three Kingdoms era, an exiled king, violent and ambitious, seeks to reclaim his throne; his visionary general - who makes plans in secret; the women of the palace, who seek redemption in a world that rejects them and a simple commoner known as "Lord of the World" - all people who will shape this story, and history itself.

134. Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Year of Release: 2026
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Actors: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Michael Mando
Plot: After the events of No Way Home, Peter Parker has embraced his role as
Spider-Man, even as the world has forgotten he ever existed, including
those closest to him. When a new threat emerges, an entity that can jump
from one body to another at will, and targeting the group known as
Damage Control, Peter realizes he has the power to both resist and sense
it. A chance encounter with some old friends, however, triggers a
transformation - one that leaves him vulnerable and unable to recognize
the new threat. With friends old and new in danger, Peter will have to
figure out how to harness his new power and reconnect to a world that
has forgotten him.

135. 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, Hope Davis, Karl Yune
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.

136. 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, Randee Heller, William Zabka
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.

137. Duel

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel, Shirley O'Hara
Plot: A man plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a driver of an 18-wheeler.

138. 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, Shido Nakamura, Hee Ching Paw
Plot: A Chinese Martial Arts Master goes through a personal journey and learns
that he has the power to unit a country.

139. 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, Dennis Franz, Reginald VelJohnson
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.

140. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Tom Hollander
Plot: Jack Sparrow's debt to Davy Jones is due, but, with a little help from his friends, he hopes to do the impossible and escape his fate.

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