Action movies

Just Play Dead (2026)

Thriller, action film, thriller film

Breaker! Breaker! (1977)

Action, action film, crime film

J.D. Dawes (Chuck Norris), a trucker from California, returns from the road to learn that an old friend was assaulted and paralyzed by Sergeant Strode (Don Gentry), a policeman in Texas City, California. He makes inquiries and learns that …

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Wing Commander (1999)

Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film

In 2654, an interstellar war rages between the Terran Confederation and the Kilrathi Empire. The cat-like Kilrathi seek the complete eradication of the human race. A massive Kilrathi armada attacks Pegasus Station, a remote but vital Confe…

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Final Score (2018)

Action, action film, association football film

Brothers Arkady and Dimitri Belav have led the revolution in the Russian region of Sakovya for independence. The revolution ultimately leads to Dimitri being killed in an airstrike and Arkady being captured, ending the revolution. After se…

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Species III (2004)

Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, monster film, science fiction film

The ambulance transporting Eve's corpse becomes lost. However, when the co-driver Robert Kelley tries to radio their superiors, the driver, Dr. Bruce Abbot, stops and holds him at gunpoint.

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Chek law dak gung (2002)

Action, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, martial arts film, thriller film

The movie opens with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA officers, including rookie Jack Chen (Daniel Wu), watch through surveillance as an assassin named Fiona Birch (Marit Thoresen) enters the man's heavil…

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Killing Zoe (1994)

Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film

Zed, a professional safe-cracker, comes to Paris to help a childhood friend, Eric, with a bank heist. While in the taxi on his way to the hotel, the cab driver offers to procure a sex worker for him in the evening. As Zed emerges from the …

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... (1985)

Secret Agent, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, spy film

Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death …

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Hercules in New York (1969)

Action, Komödie, action comedy film, adventure film, fantasy film

Hercules, at Olympus, berates his father Zeus for not allowing him to leave the gods' abode to adventure on Earth. Eventually, Zeus sends Hercules, on a beam, to the land of men. After some strange encounters in the air and at sea, includi…

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Man in the Wilderness (1971)

Western, Western film, action film, biographical film, drama film

In 1820, an expedition led by Captain Filmore Henry has completed two years of fur trapping in the unexplored Northwest territory. They are determined to reach the Missouri River before winter so they can sail south and trade their goods. …

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The Octagon (1980)

Action, action film, martial arts film, ninja film, thriller film

The film opens at a secret military training camp led by Katsumoto, who warns his recruits that betrayal will mean death for them and their families. Soon after, members of the group assassinate a diplomat, revealing their reach and brutal…

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Inferno (1999)

Action, action film, romance film

Eddie Lomax rides an Indian motorcycle in a salt flat. When his bike breaks down, he begins drinking and passes out. When he awakes, he sees his old friend from the Army, Johnny Sixtos.

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Brick Mansions (2014)

Action, action film, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, thriller film

In 2018, in a crime-ridden dystopian Detroit, a particularly notorious neighborhood has grown so dangerous that law enforcement is overwhelmed. Unable to control the crime, city officials build a -tall containment wall around this area, kn…

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The Devil's Brigade (1969)

War Film, action film, war film

In the summer of 1942, American Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Frederick, a War Department staff officer with no prior combat or command experience, is summoned to Britain where he is selected by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten to raise a com…

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I Spy (2002)

Parodie, Secret Agent, buddy cop film, comedy film, spy film

At Bureau of National Security headquarters, Special Agent Alex Scott is accosted by rival, Carlos, before his next mission's briefing. Alex has to recover a prototype stolen fighter, the "Switchblade," sold to arms dealer Arnold Gundars. …

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3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994)

Komödie, action comedy film, comedy film, martial arts film, ninja film

The three titular ninjas of the story, 13-year-old "Rocky", 12-year-old "Colt", and 7-year-old "Tum-Tum" are brothers experiencing the pressures of growing up. They frequently spend time training in the ninja arts with their grandfather, M…

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Catwoman: Hunted (2022)

Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, crime film, superhero film

Catwoman infiltrates a criminal costume party hosted by Barbara Minerva, the perceived head of Leviathan, to steal a gem called the Cat's Eye Emerald from Gotham City mobster and prospective Leviathan member Black Mask. Catwoman evades man…

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Deception (2008)

Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, romance film

Timid Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant in Manhattan. Late one night, while working on an audit at a law firm, he is befriended by a charismatic lawyer, Wyatt Bose. Taking the subway home, Jonathan has a brief encounter with a blonde woma…

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Drowning Mona (2000)

Crime Comedy, action film, comedy film, mystery film

Mona Dearly can't unlock her car so, as her keys fit her son's Yugo, she takes that and drives off. On a bend, the brakes fail completely and she drives off a cliff into the Hudson River. Clarence, fishing in the river, sees it happen.

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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

Action, Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, science fiction film

A man is in a hospital bed (John) distressed from dreaming intruders in the house brutally assault him, then watching as the leader shoots his wife and child dead. John awakens from a many-months coma to learn that his wife and daughter we…

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Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)

Action Comedy, action comedy film, buddy cop film, crime film

When a body is found hanging on top of the sign demarcating the Ontario–Quebec border, police officers from both Canadian provinces must join forces to solve the murder. David Bouchard is a rule-bending, francophone detective for the Sûret…

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Mysterious Island (1961)

Adventure, Sci-Fi

During the American Civil War, Union soldiers Cyrus Harding, Herbert Brown, and Neb Nugent, along with war correspondent Gideon Spillet, escape Libby Military Prison in Richmond, Virginia. They abscond with a gas balloon and a Rebel guard,…

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Phantasm II (1988)

Action, Horror, action film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film

Liz Reynolds is a young woman whose psychic bond to Mike Pearson and the Tall Man manifests in the form of prophetic nightmares. Through this link, Liz pleads for Mike to find her, fearing that when her grandfather Alex Murphy dies, the Ta…

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K-9 (1989)

Buddy Cop, Sitcom, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film

San Diego Police Detective Michael Dooley leaves his police car during a stakeout to contact his girlfriend, Tracy, when a helicopter attacks and destroys the car. At the police station, Dooley confides to his lieutenant, Byers, that the a…

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