Top Action Movies


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

291. Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon ( Doragon bôru Z 13: Ryûken bakuhatsu!! Gokû ga yaraneba dare ga yaru )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Actors: Masako Nozawa, Takeshi Kusao, Mayumi Tanaka, Hiromi Tsuru, Masaharu Satô, Yûko Minaguchi
Plot: The Z warriors are surprised when a mysterious being named Hoy arrives with a portent of destruction by the great monster Hildegarn. He says the only way to stop it is to use the Dragon Balls to free an ancient warrior, Tapion, and stop the beast. But Hoy isn't all he appears to be - and soon the warriors come to know the true threat.

292. Gran Turismo

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Djimon Hounsou, Darren Barnet, Josha Stradowski, Archie Madekwe
Plot: Gran Turismo is based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs – a struggling working-class gamer (Archie Madekwe), a failed former racecar driver (David Harbour), and an idealistic motorsport executive (Orlando Bloom). Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. Gran Turismo is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you’re fueled from within.

293. The Matrix Reloaded

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Actors: Keaunu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Harold Perrineau
Plot: Neo's abilities are growing in power, more humans are waking to the "real world" and Zion begins to fortify itself against a mechanical army. Meanwhile Agent Smith, "freed" by Neo, begins his own mission to make the Matrix his own.

294. Man of Steel

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Zack Snyder
Actors: Henry Cavill, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe
Plot: Kal-El was sent away from his doomed home planet of Krypton by his father. After crash landing on Earth, he is found by the Kent family and they raise him as their own, Clark Kent, teaching him their values. Realising he has great power among humans, Clark must now face up to his first grave challenge, General Zod, who led a rebellion on his home planet.

295. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin
Plot: During the Napoleonic Wars the British frigate HMS Surprise plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the much larger French warship off the coast of South America.

296. All is Lost

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.C. Chandor
Actors: Robert Redford
Plot: A lone sailor is forced to put all his skills and resourcefulness to the test after a collision with a shipping container and a looming storm, threaten his life.

297. Legend of Drunken Master, The ( Jui kuen II )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Actors: Jackie Chan, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Chia-Liang Liu, Ken Lo
Plot: To battle a group of smugglers, dutiful son Fei-Hung must use his patented "Drunken Boxing" fighting style, in which a swig of alcohol empowers him to defeat his foes.

298. Nobody

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Actors: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, J.P. Manoux, Humberly González, Gage Munroe
Plot: Hutch Mansell is the perfectly typical father and husband, in a perfectly
overlooked life - your average nobody. But things change when he thwarts a
home invasion and something inside of him, a simmering rage, finally snaps
and causes him to push back. Now in the sights of a drug kingpin he will
uncover long-buried secrets and dangerous skills in order to protect his
family - and remind everyone he will be a nobody no more.

299. The Mechanic

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Simon West
Actors: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase, Christa Campbell, J.D. Evermore
Plot: A seasoned veteran takes an aspiring hit-man under his wing, but things really heat up when someone betrays them.

300. Henry V

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Judi Dench
Plot: A great cast of Englishmen execute Shakespeare's history, leading up to Kenneth Branagh's elegant Saint Crispin's Day speech.

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