In Cold Light (2025)
Action, Thriller, thriller film
Action movies
Explore action, physical conflict and high-stakes confrontations.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 104.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Drama, Western, Western film, war film
thumb|left|Joanne Dru as Olivia and John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles In August 1876, aging veteran Captain Nathan Brittles enjoys his quiet routines and pending retirement from the 2nd U.S. Cavalry after 40 years of military service. …
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Drama, action film, drama film
Two street racers—the Driver and the Mechanic—live on the road in their highly modified, primer-gray 1955 Chevrolet 150 two-door sedan drag car, drifting from town to town and earning income by challenging locals to impromptu races. While …
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Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Five years ago, the original Teen Titans—Dick Grayson as Robin, Speedy, Kid Flash, Beast Boy, and Bumblebee—rescue Starfire from captors sent by her evil older sister Blackfire. As she is no longer able to return to her home planet of Tama…
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Annapolis (2006)
Drama, action film, drama film
Jake Huard wakes up after being knocked down during a boxing match. After beating his opponent, he returns to the home he shares with his distant father, who is also his employer at a naval shipyard, building vessels for the Navy and doubt…
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Jane Got a Gun (2015)
Action, Drama, Western, Western film, action film, drama film
Jane and her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond live in an isolated house with their five-year-old daughter Katie. One day, Ham returns home with several serious bullet wounds. As Jane is tending to his injuries, Ham tells her that the Bishop Boys…
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, medieval film, monster film, sword-and-sandal film
In the kingdom of Charak, a celebration is taking place for the coronation of Prince Kassim, but Kassim's evil stepmother, Zenobia, places a curse on him just as he is going to be crowned Caliph. Sinbad, a sailor and Prince of Baghdad, moo…
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, spy film, thriller film
Returning home with his mother Vinn from a trip to Berlin, Michael Gant, the son of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director Robert Gant, is kidnapped and his security detail is nearly wiped out by the attacker, ex-DIA agent Sever. FBI a…
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Dragnet (1987)
Buddy Cop, Parodie, Police Film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday's nephew and namesake, whose anachronistic views reflect those of his deceased uncle, is involuntarily assigned a cocky, streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek, as Friday's previous longtime partner in the Robbery-Ho…
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16 Blocks (2006)
Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker, from local custody to the courthouse sixteen blocks away to testify on a p…
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Money Train (1995)
Action, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film
Foster brothers John and Charlie Robinson are decoy transit cops patrolling the New York City Subway. Chasing muggers into a subway tunnel, John and Charlie are furious when one of the teenage thieves is gunned down by officers guarding th…
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American Ninja (1985)
Action, Adventure, action film, martial arts film, ninja film
As an alternative to prison, young American Joe Armstrong is conscripted into the U.S. Army by a judge. Joe ends up fighting off the Black Star Order of ninjas while stationed in the Philippines.
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Best of the Best (1989)
Action, Martial-Arts, Sport, action film, drama film, martial arts film
Alexander Grady, an auto plant welder and a widowed father from Portland, Oregon, is chosen to represent the United States of America in an international martial arts tournament against Team South Korea. Once a rising star in the martial a…
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The Defiant Ones (1958)
Drama, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
One night, in the late 1950s in the Southern United States, a truck loaded with prisoners swerves to avoid another truck and crashes through a fence. The rescuers clear up the debris and discover two prisoners have escaped, an African-Amer…
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The Hard Way (1991)
Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Cynical NYPD Lieutenant John Moss pursues a serial killer known as the "Party Crasher" through a local nightclub, but fails to prevent the murder of a local drug dealer. During an interview with the press, Moss vents his frustration at the…
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Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Action, Sport, action film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Years after his defeat by George "Iceman" Chambers, Yuri Boyka, now a prison janitor, hears about the Prison Spetz Competition (PSC), an inter-prison fighting tournament offering a chance at early release. Boyka trains privately to recover…
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Hardware (1990)
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, Fantasy, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A nomadic scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy st…
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Hostage (2005)
Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Former L.A. SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. One day, Talley negotiates with an abusive man who has taken his own wife and son hostage after learning his wife was cheating on him.
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Gunga Din (1939)
Action, Adventure, adventure film, ghost film, war film
On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact is lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur while it is in the midst of sending a telegraph message. Colonel Weed dispatches a detachment of twenty-five British Indian Army troops to …
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SummerSlam (1999)
Action
Steel (1997)
Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
John Henry Irons is a weapons designer who invents high-tech laser guns, protective armor, and sonic sound cannons for the United States military. One soldier, Nathaniel Burke, decides to show just what Irons' weapons can do and sets one o…
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Classical Western, Western film
The four adult sons of Katie Elder – John, who is a famous professional gunman; Tom, a professional gambler; Bud, the youngest brother, in his first year at mining college; and Matt, an unsuccessful hardware dealer – reunite in their homet…
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And Then There Were None (1945)
Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr and Mrs Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers (a married cou…
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Class of 1984 (1982)
Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, rape and revenge film, science fiction film, thriller film
Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at Lincoln High School, a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun. When Andrew asks about the firearm, Terry assures h…
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