Top Action Movies


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

331. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell, Reece Ritchie
Plot: Based on the video game: A street-urchin-turned prince controls a dagger that can turn back time. He must team up with a rival princess to stop a series of assassins and a man bent on unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.

332. The Duellists

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Keith Carradine, Albert Finney, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens
Plot: Two officers in Napoleon's army become entangled in a feud that lasts several decades an involves repeated -- increasingly violent -- duels in order to settle a matter of honor.

333. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Actors: Simu Liu, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Awkwafina, Fala Chen, Ben Kingsley, Meng'er Zhang
Plot: Having been raised to be a human weapon for the family business of high-profile assassination, instead Shang-Chi has left behind that life for some sense of normalcy on the streets of San Francisco. But an inevitable family reunion from his father means he will have to face his past and put his training to the ultimate test.

334. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Xochitl Gomez
Plot: With Iron Man's sacrifice and Captain America's long-life lived, Doctor Steven Strange is now in line to take up the mantle as a main member of The Avengers. But his use of a dangerous and forbidden spell opens the door to the Multiverse - where chaos and madness reign. To fight fire with fire against an ever-changing world, Strange calls on Sorcerer Supreme Wong and the Scarlet Witch to help him restore order - even when the most dangerous threat from this mad, mysterious realm bears a familiar face.

335. Big Boss, The aka Fists of Fury ( Tang shan da xiong )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wei Lo
Actors: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Ying-Chieh Han, Malalene, Tony Liu
Plot: Bruce Lee stars as a man sworn to do no harm. As he helps his cousins in an ice factory, he discovers something that draws him to violence and his only choice is to act out against evil.

336. The Lost City of Z

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gray
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Angus Macfadyen, Daniel Huttlestone
Plot: Based on the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett who, at the dawn of the 20th century, comes across what he believes is a previously unknown ancient, advanced civilization deep within the Amazon. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific community, Fawcett, along with the support of his aide de camp and wife, returns to the Amazon time and time again to prove his case up until his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

337. Ninja Assassin

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James McTeigue
Actors: Randall Duk Kim, Naomie Harris, Sung Kang, Rick Yune, Rain, Ben Miles
Plot: A European agent and ex-assassin must join forces to bring down the mythical Ozunu Clan of underground assassins.

338. The Italian Job

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Peter Collinson
Actors: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Margaret Blye, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley
Plot: A man fresh out of prison is more than happy to help his friends with a
little "job" - but after they get pinched, he has to take over - with the
Mafia breathing down his neck. Nothing a trio of Minis, a bus and a couple
of Jaguars can't accomplish.

339. Deja Vu

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, James Caviezel, Elden Henson, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: A ferry in New Orleans is destroyed in a terrorist attack, killing over 500 people. ATF agent Doug Carlin arrives on scene and begins to piece together what happened. Impressed by his method, he's invited to join a FBI surveillance team who has new technology allowing them to look four days back in time. When a link between a local murdered woman and the terrorist is discovered, Carlin becomes convinced changing the past is the only way to save the future.

340. Colombiana

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Olivier Megaton
Actors: Zoe Saldana, Graham McTavish, Callum Blue, Michael Vartan, Jordi MollĂ , Lennie James
Plot: After witnessing her parents murder as a young child, Bogota resident Cataleya Restrepo's life is changed and she grows up to be an assassin. While she takes jobs from her uncle by day, at night she works as a vigilante, with the ultimate goal of tracking down, and killing, the people responsible for her parents' death.

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