Top Action Movies


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

321. Black Dynamite

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Sanders
Actors: Michael Jai White, Mykelti Williamson, Nicole Sullivan, James McManus, Tommy Davidson, Roger Yuan
Plot: Black Dynamite is an ex-cia agent that is going to make the streets run
red when his brother overdoes on drugs. He uses his kung-fu to avenge his
death and kill all the people responsible.

322. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell, Reece Ritchie
Plot: Based on the video game: A street-urchin-turned prince controls a dagger that can turn back time. He must team up with a rival princess to stop a series of assassins and a man bent on unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.

323. The Duellists

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Keith Carradine, Albert Finney, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens
Plot: Two officers in Napoleon's army become entangled in a feud that lasts several decades an involves repeated -- increasingly violent -- duels in order to settle a matter of honor.

324. Woman at War ( Kona fer í stríð )

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Actors: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson, Vala Kristin Eiriksdottir, Jón Gnarr

325. Annihilation

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Sonoya Mizuno
Plot: Seeking answers to the whereabouts of her husband, a biologist joins a group of women on a dangerous expedition to a place known only as Area X. Area X is like no other - surreal, beautiful and extremely dangerous, where the laws of nature no longer apply.

326. Deja Vu

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, James Caviezel, Elden Henson, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: A ferry in New Orleans is destroyed in a terrorist attack, killing over 500 people. ATF agent Doug Carlin arrives on scene and begins to piece together what happened. Impressed by his method, he's invited to join a FBI surveillance team who has new technology allowing them to look four days back in time. When a link between a local murdered woman and the terrorist is discovered, Carlin becomes convinced changing the past is the only way to save the future.

327. Colombiana

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Olivier Megaton
Actors: Zoe Saldana, Graham McTavish, Callum Blue, Michael Vartan, Jordi Mollà, Lennie James
Plot: After witnessing her parents murder as a young child, Bogota resident Cataleya Restrepo's life is changed and she grows up to be an assassin. While she takes jobs from her uncle by day, at night she works as a vigilante, with the ultimate goal of tracking down, and killing, the people responsible for her parents' death.

328. Contagion

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne
Plot: As a deadly, fast-moving airborne virus rapidly spreads, an international team of medical experts works to find a cure before society collapses around them.

329. The Grey

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson, Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts
Plot: A plane crash strands a team of oil drillers in the Alaskan wilderness. They must struggle to survive against the elements and a vicious pack of wolves who view these new entities as intruders.

330. The Lost City of Z

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gray
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Angus Macfadyen, Daniel Huttlestone
Plot: Based on the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett who, at the dawn of the 20th century, comes across what he believes is a previously unknown ancient, advanced civilization deep within the Amazon. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific community, Fawcett, along with the support of his aide de camp and wife, returns to the Amazon time and time again to prove his case up until his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

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