Top Action Movies


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

231. The Mummy

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jonathan Hyde
Plot: In ancient Egypt high priest Imhotep was cursed for crimes against the pharoah. In 1923 an archeological dig unearths the priest and his vengeance will be felt.

232. Big Jake

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Sherman
Actors: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bruce Cabot, Bobby Vinton
Plot: The McCandles ranch is run over by a gang of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain. They kidnap little Jacob McCandles and hold him for a million dollar ransom. There is only one man who is brave enough and smart enough to bring him back, and that man is Big Jake.

233. The Covenant

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Emily Beecham, Jake Gyllenhaal, Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Dar Salim
Plot: On his last tour in Afghanistan, Sergeant John Kinley and his team are ambushed leaving Kinley and local interpreter, Ahmed as the only survivors. At great risk, Ahmed carried a wounded Kinley across dangerous terrain and with enemies in pursuit. After recovering at home, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his families Visa has been denied and he returns to the war zone in order to protect the man who saved his life.

234. Fist of Fury aka Chinese Connection, The ( Jing wu men )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wei Lo
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Maria Yi, Robert Baker, Fu Ching Chen
Plot: Bruce Lee stars as a man sworn to do no harm. As he help his cousins in an ice factory, he discovers something that draws him to violence and his only choice is it act out against evil.

235. Batman Returns

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Vincent Schiavelli, Paul Reubens
Plot: Batman must find a way to clear his name of terrible crimes while putting an end to Pengiun and the corrupt business man Max Shreck. A new masked outsider appears in a leather suit. Could it be Catwoman?

236. Underworld: Evolution

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Len Wiseman
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy, Derek Jacobi
Plot: Working together to expose the truth about their bloodlines, vampire
warrior Selene and werewolf hybrid Michael learn the backstory to the
ongoing conflict between the patrician Death Dealers and the barbarous
Lycans.

237. Crimson Tide

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini
Plot: Hackman vs Washington: a showdown hundreds of feet beneath the ocean. Ordered to unleash their nuclear payload onto a former Soviet army base, two principled men fight for what they believe is the right thing to do.

238. King Kong

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis
Plot: During the depression in 1930s New York, a down-on-her-luck actress runs into an ambitious film director whose plan to film on a remote island takes on unexpected dangers.

239. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm
Actors: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda, Mark Hamill
Plot: As Gotham's crime lords begin showing up dead Bruce Wayne finds love, but must continue to protect Gotham as the new menace, Phantasm, also stalks the night. Things get even more problematic when Phantasm attracts the Joker's attention.

240. Troy

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Peterson
Actors: Brad Pitt, Brian Cox, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole
Plot: Paris, a Trojan prince, has stolen Helen, the Queen of Sparta. The Greeks unite and send a massive fleet and army, led by their greatest warrior Achilles, to defend their honor.

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