Top Action Movies


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

431. Get the Gringo

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Actors: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris, Bob Gunton, Scott Cohen, Kevin Hernandez
Plot: A criminal with a long rap sheet finds himself in over his head when
Mexican authorities send him to an infamous prison. In order to survive,
he will have to make the right friends, including one important 9-year-old
boy.

432. Savage Streets

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Steinmann
Actors: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Robert Dryer, Johnny Venocur, Sal Landi, Scott Mayer

433. 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The ( Shao Lin san shi liu fang )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Actors: Chia Hui Liu, Lieh Lo, Chia Yung Liu, Norman Chu, John Cheung, Hang-Sheng Wu
Plot: After a corrupt general occupies his village and terrorizes his family, San Te (Chia Hui Liu) vows revenge and leaves home to study the ancient fighting arts. He becomes a monk at the mythical Shaolin Temple, where he learns the secrets of all 35 chambers over a seven-year period, but is cast out when he proposes a 36th chamber.

434. The Guardian

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown, Omari Hardwick

435. The Mask of Zorro

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Wilson, William Marquez, Tony Amendola
Plot: An elderly Zorro comes out of retirement to apprentice a young upstart, and avenge the death of his wife and liberate his daughter, who has been raised by the man responsible for his 20-year imprisonment.

436. Predators

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nimród Antal
Actors: Topher Grace, Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Derek Mears
Plot: Mercenaries, criminals, cold-blooded killers - a group find themselves on alien planet where they find the predators have become the prey and they must come together if they have any hope of survival.

437. The Recruit

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht, Kenneth Mitchell, Mike Realba
Plot: Fresh CIA recruit James Clayton is on the fast track to become a top agent thanks to his quick thinking, unconventional methods and mentor, veteran agent Walter Burke. As Clayton begins to question his trust, Burke assigns him the task of rooting out a mole in the agency.

438. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Actors: George Lazenby, Telly Savalas, Diana Rigg, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell
Plot: George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond. Blofeld plans to spread a deadly virus across the world. Bond teams up with an Italian gangster to thwart SPECTRE. In the end, Bond loses his wife.

439. Machine Gun Preacher

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker, Barbara Coven
Plot: Sam Childers spent his life as a drug-dealing biker until he found God. He found a way to put his faith and former life to use by taking on the task of coming to the aid of Sudanese children forced to become soldiers.

440. Dredd

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pete Travis
Actors: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Domhnall Gleeson, Deobia Oparei, Langley Kirkwood
Plot: The future is now - police have been given the authority to act as judge,
jury and executioner and a veteran cop partners with a trainee in order to
take down a deadly gang that has introduced a new drug, SLO-MO, that
alters reality.

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