Top Action Movies


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

151. The Batman

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: It has been two years since Bruce Wayne took on the alter ego of Batman in order to protect Gotham City. But now he faces something he could never foresee - corruption at the highest echelons that lead back to his own family as well as taking on a deranged serial killer known as The Riddler.

152. 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, Donal Logue, Traci Lords
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.

153. 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, Scarlett Johansson, James Spader
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.

154. Pale Rider

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Chris Penn, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny
Plot: A greedy landowner has his sites set on a gold-mining town but a
mysterious preacher shows up to work on behalf of the besieged people and
stop the landowner from his plot.

155. 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, Idris Elba, Cate Blanchett
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.

156. Why Don't You Play in Hell? ( Jigoku de naze warui )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino, Tomochika
Plot: A renegade film crew, dubbed The F*%k Bombers, finally realizes their decades-long passion to make a film - as long as they don't mind being embroiled in Yakuza clan feud where several parties will surely wind up dead.

157. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chad Stahelski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Anjelica Huston, Jason Mantzoukas, Asia Kate Dillon, Laurence Fishburne
Plot: John Wick has been declared excommunicado after executing a member of the international assassin's guild - a member of the High Table. With no friends to turn to, and a $14 million bounty on his head, Wick faces the most daunting task of his life: to survive.

158. The Warriors

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Michael Beck, Dorsey Wright, David Harris, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, Tom McKitterick
Plot: A popular leader attempts to unite all the gangs in New York City. At a huge rally he is killed and The Warriors gang is fingered for the hit. They must make their way back to their home turf of Coney Island while dodging rival gangs.

159. Lethal Weapon 2

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor, Patsy Kensit
Plot: Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation.

160. Train to Busan ( Busanhaeng )

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Actors: Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Woo-sik Choi, Yu-mi Jeong, Sohee, Kim Soo-ahn
Plot: A father who spends more time with his work than with his daughter honors
her birthday wish to visit her mother, and his ex-wife. But boarding the
high-speed KTX train turns in to a fight for survival when a zombie
outbreak cripples South Korea and an infected passenger soon threatens
everyone on board.

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