Top Action Movies


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

251. Magnum Force

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
Plot: A wayward cop is enforcing vigilante justice by assassinating several criminals who manage to escape punishment by slipping through legal loopholes and "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the case.

252. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gunn
Actors: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Will Poulter, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan
Plot: The Guardians have faces many trials, but the loss of Gamora still affects them all - and the alternate replacement can't heal the scars left behind. But a new threat emerges in the form of The High Evolutionary - who seeks his own perfect world no matter the cost - and who has a connection of Rocket's past. They also must contend with The Sovereign, whose artificial being, Adam Warlock, has finally been released. Between the two, the Guardians may finally find themselves going their separate ways - provided they can survive.

253. 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.

254. El Dorado

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Edward Asner, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix
Plot: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

255. 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.

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. 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.

259. 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.

260. 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.

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