Top Action Movies


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

461. X-Men: The Last Stand

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brett Ratner
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer
Plot: When a cure for genetic mutation is announced, Professor Xavier must
contend with Magneto's Brotherhood, who will stop at nothing to eliminate
the source.

462. The War Wagon

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr., Bruce Cabot, Bruce Dern
Plot: Surviving being shot - and imprisoned - a man recently released hatches a plan to get back the gold that was stolen from him. He joins forces with the same man who shot him in order to take down "the War Wagon", a heavily-armored stage coach that houses the gold.

463. Hondo

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Farrow
Actors: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta
Plot: A cavalry dispatch rider, Hondo, meets up with a woman and her son living in Apache territory who think they are safe due to chief Vittorio having always left them alone. When Hondo kills her reprobate husband, he is forced to pretend to be her husband in order to prevent her from being forced into an Apache marriage, knowing all the time the truth will have to come out...

464. Hostage

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Actors: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker
Plot: A failed hostage negotiator leaves L.A. for small-town life with his family. A burglary gone wrong leads to a family being taken hostage. A father with a secret and a criminal on edge will lead to deadly showdown.

465. 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.

466. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto
Plot: After being robbed, Mad Max finds himself at the mercy of Bartertown, where he finds himself in a power struggle between the cruel Aunt Entity and her rival Master Blaster. Things go from bad to worse as he is banished to the desert but finds refuge from a group of orphans looking for a leader.

467. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within ( Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo Agora É Outro )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: José Padilha
Actors: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Seu Jorge
Plot: After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento, now a high-ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into the largest operation against drug traffickers: a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

468. The Quick and the Dead

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell, Keith David
Plot: A lone woman rides into a small town seeking revenge. The self-proclaimed "leader" Herod has set up a gun-fighting competition - and he makes the rules, starting by entering the town preacher, who has vowed never to kill another man again.

469. The Last Starfighter

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nick Castle
Actors: Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Barbara Bosson, Norman Snow, Robert Preston
Plot: Alex Rogan lives in a trailer park and spends his days playing the Starfighter video game. But upon meeting an alien who convinces him to use his skills in real combat, Rogan heads to space to protect the galaxy from invasion. He gets to the Starfighter base station before deciding the trailer park wasn't so bad, but returns home to find he's being stalked by an alien beast.

470. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Richard Epcar, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Crispin Freeman, William Knight, Michael McCarty, Joey D'Auria
Plot: Batô, the living cyborg working for Public Security Section 9, investigates a case where a pleasure model female robot has killed her owner. But in 2032, the line between humanity and cybernetics is becoming more and more blurred as humans live out there every whim - in all this a lonely ghost of man seeks to reclaim his own humanity.

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