Top Action Movies


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

191. Rush Hour

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brett Ratner
Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Ken Leung, Tom Wilkinson, Tzi Ma, Robert Littman
Plot: A by-the-book Hong Kong detective and a fast-talking loose canon L.A. cop team up to track down a kidnapper.

192. 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, Ward Crane
Plot: A movie projectionist dreams of being a detective.

193. Rambo

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Jake La Botz, Reynaldo Gallegos
Plot: Rambo is back again for this action packed thriller. Taking place in Thailand, Stallone (Rambo) picks his own mercenaries this time - all to help him rescue workers that have gone missing.

194. Enemy of the State

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King, Stuart Wilson
Plot: Robert Clayton Dean is a lawyer and family man but a chance encounter with an old friend leaves him with evidence of a politically-motivated murder. On the run from a corrupt NSA official and his lackeys, his only hope to stay alive is an ex-government operative and surveillance specialist.

195. 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, Toby Huss
Plot: A Vietnam Fighter Pilot is shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War and he struggles to survive.

196. Sholay

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ramesh Sippy
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan
Plot: After his wife is murdered by an elusive bandit, a police officer recruits two criminals in order to hunt down the man so he can enact his revenge.

197. Boy and the Beast, The ( Bakemono no ko )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Actors: Shôta Sometani, Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Suzu Hirose, Sumire Morohoshi, Mamoru Miyano

198. The Guns of Navarone

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Richard Harris, Anthony Quayle
Plot: A combined British and Greek is sent to take out a key German gun emplacement on the island of Navarone, which threatens British troops. Air support is out of the questions and the dangerous mission is made even more so as it appears the Germans may have support of their own.

199. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Actors: Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Angela Bassett, Simon Pegg
Plot: A rogue computer programs has infiltrated the world's intelligence
agencies, financial intuitions, military and more. Named The Entity, it
has the power to control everything - including what constitutes the
truth itself for the future and every nation wants to have this power
for themselves. A special key - made up of two parts - can open the door
to this power, but only if one knows what it unlocks. Ethan Hunt is once
again called upon as the fate of the world hangs in the balance with old
friends, new faces and one unexpected enemy going along on the most
important mission yet.

200. The Poseidon Adventure

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Fred Sadoff, Roddy McDowall, Ernest Borgnine
Plot: A sinking ship full of vacationers try to survive with no way out as they
crawl through an upside down ship.

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