Top Action Movies


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

171. Safety Last!

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Mildred Davis, Harold Lloyd, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Plot: A sales associate puts on a bet about climbing the building on the outside which creates consequences unknown from the beginning. Silent.

172. Snowpiercer

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell
Plot: The near future: a second ice age has wiped out most of humanity. The survivors travel by train through the cold, lonely world - but even here, at humanities end, class division rears its ugly head - and those as the back of the train are ready to revolt.

173. Sherlock Jr.

Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Plot: A movie projectionist dreams of being a detective.

174. True Lies

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton
Plot: Harry Trasker, his wife Helen and daughter Dana live in perfect, boring suburban happiness - but Harry is actually part of an ultra-secret organization and when he finds out his wife is having an affair with a "spy" he uses his resources to keep tabs on her, but they both end up in the hands of terrorists.

175. Equilibrium

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Actors: Dominic Purcell, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Christian Kahrmann
Plot: In the near future, humans are living in one giant city under the strictest government control. Monks keep the peace and maintain the current status quo, but what happens when they open their eyes to the big picture, freedom?

176. Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam )

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory, the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation.

177. Rescue Dawn

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Pat Healy
Plot: A Vietnam Fighter Pilot is shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War and he struggles to survive.

178. The Great Mouse Detective

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
Actors: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek
Plot: Basil of Baker Street is the rodent equal to Sherlock Holmes. When a toymaker is abducted, a young mouse turns to the great detective to find her missing father. As his investigation goes deeper, a simple kidnapping leads to plot against the Crown itself.

179. Ant-Man

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peyton Reed
Actors: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll
Plot: Scott Lang has worked alongside his friend and mentor Dr. Hank Pym but has never truly asserted himself. Now, armed with a suit that shrinks him in size but greatly increases his strength, Lang, now dubbed Ant-Man, will have to find the hero inside himself in order to pull off a heist that may very well be the key to saving the world.

180. Zulu

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cy Endfield
Actors: Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
Plot: Zulu is the story of Rorkes Drift which was a small British mission post which was held by less than 150 soldiers against overwhelming numbers of Zulus in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

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