Top Action Movies


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

471. The Enforcer

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Fargo
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, John Mitchum, DeVeren Bookwalter
Plot: Harry and his new distaff partner, Inspector Kate Moore, must track down a group of tree-hugging terrorists who've kidnapped the city's mayor and are demanding a $2 million ransom. Harry and Kate discover that the mayor is being held on Alcatraz Island and it's only a matter of time before the showdown begins.

472. Machete

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba
Plot: Federale Machete is hired for an assassination but is betrayed. Surviving a bullet, he goes on a rampage of revenge and won't stop until everyone has paid.

473. The Day After Tomorrow

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, Jay O. Sanders, Dash Mihok
Plot: Strange weather phenomena is just the precursor for a climatologist who works to warn the world about a new, rapidly approaching ice age.

474. Frantic

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Djiby Soumare, Dominique Virton, Gérard Klein

475. Bad Boys II

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano, Jordi Moll, Gabrielle Union
Plot: Continuing where they left off, two police detectives follow a trail of Ecstasy into Florida as they try to stop the flow. With more responsibility than in the past, they must be careful to maintain their home lives as well as solve the mystery.

476. Oblivion

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo
Plot: After devastating war that brought Earth on the brink of extinction, the remaining people are assigned to protect the last useful sources of energy. That is until a technician on the ground discovers something that changes everything he has been told.

477. Batman: Assault on Arkham

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jay Oliva, Ethan Spaulding
Actors: Kevin Conroy, Neal McDonough, Hynden Walch, Matthew Gray Gubler, Troy Baker, Giancarlo Esposito
Plot: Agent Waller and her secret agenda government operation has gathered together a rag tag group of assassins, called the Suicide Squad to break into the Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane, and acquire important information. Things go awry, and the Batman and Joker add a kink to their plans.

478. 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.

479. Omkara

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Actors: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Vivek Oberoi, Bipasha Basu

480. Gladiator II

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Fred Hechinger
Plot: Under the tyrannical rule of twin emperor's Geta and Caracalla, the
dream of Rome has all been forgotten in exchange for constant warfare.
General Acacius has just conquered Numia, the last free lands in Africa
and among the many taken as slaves is Hanno - who catches the eye of
Macrinus, who sees great potential for him in the arena. But Hanno is
far from a mere gladiator - with a legacy that could shape the future of
Rome but Macrinus has a devious plan of his own, and only one destiny
can come out on top.

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