Top Action Movies


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

461. Hombre

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Margaret Blye, Val Avery
Plot: A white boy, raised by Apaches, goes out into the real world and finds a purpose in defending a stagecoach from an ambush by a gang of thugs.

462. The Lords of Dogtown

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, Rebecca De Mornay, Nikki Reed, Johnny Knoxville, Heath Ledger
Plot: Explores the advent of skateboarding in Venice, CA as a group of young men, dubbed the Z-Boys use vacant pools to pioneer a new sport.

463. Act of Valor

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
Actors: Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano, Emilio Rivera, Gonzalo Menendez, Ailsa Marshall, Jason Cottle
Plot: Inspired by true events and starring an active group of Navy SEALs, Act of Valor follows this elite group of trained soldiers as they mount a cover rescue mission for a kidnapped CIA operative.

464. The A-Team

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Sharlto Copley, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson
Plot: A special forces unit is framed for a crime but utilizing their unique skills they escape incarceration and make plans to clear their names.

465. A Walk Among the Tombstones

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Frank
Actors: Liam Neeson, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Stevens, Whitney Able, Sebastian Roché, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Plot: A PI finds himself on a deadly assignment when a drug kingpin hires him to find out who is responsible for the kidnapping and murder of his wife.

466. The Vikings

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Plot: Two men, one a viking the other a slave, vie for the attention of a welsh
princess.

467. Silver Streak

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Arthur Hiller
Actors: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Ned Beatty, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan, Ray Walston
Plot: On a train trip from L.A. to Chicago a man discovers romance, but he also thinks he sees a man pushed from the train. No one around him believes his story... well, no one but the killer, who makes him the next target.

468. Premium Rush

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Koepp
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Chung, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Aasif Mandvi, Nick Damici
Plot: A bike messenger suddenly finds himself on more than just a routine delivery when a corrupt cop begins pursuit after picking up a package.

469. Redemption

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Knight
Actors: Jason Statham, Lee Asquith-Coe, Vicky McClure, Ian Pirie, Benedict Wong, Siobhan Hewlett
Plot: An ex-special forces agent, homeless and trying to avoid a court martial, navigates London's criminal underworld. When he comes upon an opportunity to assume a new identity - it allows him to be reborn - and become an avenging angel in the process.

470. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson
Plot: Katniss Everdeen along with Peeta Mellark, and a handful of other survivors, have successfully escaped the Quarterquell thanks to helps from Haymitch Abernathy and former gamemaster Plutarch Heavensbee. But escaping is just the start, as Katniss finds herself having to embrace the symbol she has become to the people of Panem - a symbol of rebellion against President Snow and the autocratic Capitol.

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