251. The Professionals
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Woody Strode, Claudia Cardinale
Plot: A rich Texan hires a band of four men to rescue his wife from Mexican revolutionaries. The men accept the job but learn the "victim" may not be so innocent.
252. Troy
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Peterson
Actors: Brad Pitt, Brian Cox, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole
Plot: Paris, a Trojan prince, has stolen Helen, the Queen of Sparta. The Greeks
unite and send a massive fleet and army, led by their greatest warrior
Achilles, to defend their honor.
253. Fitzcarraldo
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Peter Berling, Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez
Plot: Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald has a dream of building an opera house in the
jungle. He must first raise the money via the rubber business and then
move a massive river boat over a small mountain with help from the local
tribes.
254. Where Eagles Dare
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Actors: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Donald Houston, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern
Plot: A group of soldiers must rescue a important General held in a German
Castle but all is not what it seems.
255. 48 Hrs.
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly
Plot: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
256. Patriot Games
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, Samuel L. Jackson
Plot: Jack Ryan is enjoying a vacation in England with his family when his CIA
training kicks in and he foils an IRA assassination targeting a member of
the royal family. Yet this intervention puts him and his family in the
sights of the IRA - who now seek revenge.
257. Mission: Impossible III
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Plot: Super spy agent is back again as he tries to protect his girlfriend from an arms dealer who has a way of giving headaches.
258. King of New York
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito
Plot: It's Robin Hood with a gritty, urban twist - a drug lord has fallen but
after prison he returns home determined to wipe out the competition and
spread the wealth to poorer citizens.
259. Alpha
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Albert Hughes
Actors: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe, Leonor Varela, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Mercedes de la Zerda, Jens Hultén
Plot: Taking place 20,000 years in the past, during the last Ice Age, a hunter
becomes separated from his clan following a disastrous hunt. Alone in an
unforgiving environment and surrounded by predators, he finds himself
befriending a wolf, which could be a means to survive or lead to a quick
death.
260. The Towering Inferno
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Actors: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
Plot: At the gala premiere opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, architect Doug Roberts discovers builders have installed shoddy wiring. Sure enough, a fire breaks out during the celebration and the world's tallest building becomes the world's tallest death trap.
