Kajaki (2014)
Action, Drama, thriller film, war 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 150.
Inside Out (2011)
Action, Crime, Drama
A.J., an ex-con who served 13 years in Angola for manslaughter, returns home to New Orleans and fights to protect the woman he loves and her young daughter from his dangerous former best friend. In better times, AJ (Triple H) would have done anything to protect his best friend, Jack (Michael Rapaport), a two-bit gangster and the son of Dr. Vic (Bruce Dern) -- the city's toughest crime boss.
Steel Dawn (1987)
Action, disaster film, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
Nomad (Patrick Swayze), a swordsman, wanders through the desert in a post-World War III world. He searches for his mentor's killer, the assassin Sho (Christopher Neame). In the past, Nomad had a position of privilege as a soldier of the elite guard.
Gymkata (1985)
Action, Martial arts
Jonathan Cabot is approached by the Special Intelligence Agency (SIA) to play "the Game". The Game is an athletic competition in the fictional country of Parmistan, a tiny mountain nation in the Hindu Kush mountain range. Parmistan forces all foreigners to play the Game, which is an endurance race with obstacles, all the while being chased by local Parmistan warriors.
Miami Connection (1987)
Action, Crime, musical film, ninja film
A cocaine deal in Miami is interrupted by a group of motorcycle-riding ninjas led by Yashito, who steal the drugs and ride back to Orlando to party. At a club, Yashito's close associate, Jeff, sees his sister Jane onstage. She has become romantically involved with John, the bassist of the club's band, Dragon Sound, which consists of an ethnically diverse group of five college students who are best friends.
Wavelength (1967)
Action, experimental film
The entire film is set inside a loft featuring four mullioned windows and minimal furnishings—a desk, a yellow chair, and a radiator against the far wall, with several photographs hanging above the chair. The film begins with a wide shot of the loft, and the image gradually zooms in on the wall as the story progresses. A woman in a red coat directs two men to place a bookcase against the left wall, after which they leave.
Minority Report (2002)
Action, Dystopian, Justice Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, Science fiction, thriller film, Utopia & Dystopia
In 2054, a "Precrime" pilot program is running in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Three clairvoyant individuals known as "precognitives" or "precogs" receive psychic visions about imminent homicides.
Empire (2002)
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Victor "Vic" Rosa is a drug dealer in New York City who sells a specific brand of heroin called "Empire". His territory is located in the South Bronx, where he and his other rivals, Hector ("Exorcist"), Tito ("Severe"), and Negro ("Dancing Queen") all maintain an uneasy truce because they all purchase their drugs from the same supplier, drug lord Joanna "La Colombiana" Menendez. Victor's girlfriend Carmen invites him to a chic white-collar party being thrown by her friend Trish and her boyfriend Jack Wimmer, an investment banker.
Bloody Mama (1970)
Crime, Drama, Family Saga, Gangster Film, Historie, thriller film
In rural Arkansas during the Depression, middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker, disturbed by the childhood incestuous rape that she experienced by her father and brothers, also brutalizes those around her while indulging in her monstrous sexual appetites. She is devoted to her four adult sons, pragmatic Arthur, sadistic Herman, homosexual Fred and loyal, drug-addicted Lloyd. Kate decides to leave her husband George and her Arkansas home to embark on a robbery-murder spree with her four sons.
The Signal (2007)
Comedy horror, Horror, Psychological horror, Science fiction, Splatter Film
Mya is cheating on her husband, Lewis, with Ben. Ben asks Mya to leave the city with him, but she remains noncommittal. As Mya exits, Ben turns the television on and watches a bizarre psychedelic sequence of images.
Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Christmas film, Comedy, Crime
At Christmas time, New York City convicts Dave and Alvin Firpo are paroled early and placed in the custody of their younger brother Bill, a restaurant manager. Dave and Alvin ask Bill to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor for a fellow inmate of theirs. Bill refuses as his brothers are not allowed out of the state; but agrees after believing himself to be linked to a robbery his brothers committed.
Rapa Nui (1994)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Historie
There are two classes of people: Long Ears and Short Ears. Long Ears, marked by large wooden plugs in their earlobes and a certain tattoo, are the ruling class. The working-class Short Ears have no ear plugs and a different tattoo.
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Biography, Drama, war film
In November 1941, a British commando unit raids the headquarters of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, unaware that the target of their assassination attempt is recovering from nasal diphtheria in Germany. A phone call from Adolf Hitler prompts Rommel's return to the Afrika Korps. The British Eighth Army under General Bernard Montgomery is poised to counterattack the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
Secret of the Incas (1954)
Adventure
American adventurer Harry Steele makes a living as a tour guide in Cusco, Peru, but plans to earn his fortune by finding the legendary gold and jeweled "sunburst", a lost Inca treasure, at the ancient capital of Machu Picchu. He possesses a fragment of a carved stone block which gives the location of the sunburst when placed on a stone map of the ancient tomb complex, housed at a local museum. Bar owner Ed Morgan, has been searching for the treasure for fourteen years and hires a sniper to frighten off Harry.
He Bled Neon (2026)
Action, thriller film
After his estranged brother's mysterious death, Ethan's journey to Las Vegas for his brother's funeral unravels a dark web of crime, forcing him to confront his past as he delves into the city's gritty underworld to uncover the truth, risking everything he holds dear in the process.
Wonder Woman (2011)
Action, Science fiction
In an inner city home, a teenager tells his family that he has been accepted into college, moments before he begins convulsing and bleeding from the eyes and ears. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is on a foot chase with a super-strength criminal on Hollywood Blvd and, after knocking him out, takes a sample of his blood and leaves him to the police. Wonder Woman returns to the headquarters of Themyscira Industries, a large corporation which she runs as the CEO in her alter-ego of Diana Themyscira.
Another Stakeout (1993)
Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, Sitcom
Luella Delano, a witness against the Mafia, is being hidden in the desert until the trial. Tony Castellano, a hitman, blows up the house using a sewage removal truck to pump gas under it. The violent attempt against her kills her husband Mike, several of her guards and she disappears.
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Adventure, Pirate Film, romance film, swashbuckler film
King Philip II of Spain declares his intention to destroy England as a first step to world conquest, eager to make his empire reach from Northern Europe to China and India. He sends Don Álvarez as his ambassador to allay the suspicions of Queen Elizabeth I about the great armada he is building to invade England. In England, some of the queen's ministers plead with her to build a fleet, which she hesitates to do in order to spare the purses of her subjects.
Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens (2012)
Action, animated film, children's film, Science fiction, Superhero
Ben, Gwen, and their grandfather Max spend their evenings battling aliens on Bellwood's streets. During a battle with a robotic tank, Ben as Upgrade and Gwen argue about the best way to defeat it, resulting in Gwen casting a dismantling spell on the tank while Ben is still attached to it. Unknown to the group, this causes a malfunction in the Omnitrix.
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
black comedy film, Crime, Crime Comedy, Drama
Tommy Spinelli is a wiseguy hired by Benny and Rico, a pair of dimwitted hitmen, to transport a duffel bag full of severed heads across the United States to crime boss "Big Sep" (as proof of the deaths). While on a commercial flight, his bag is accidentally switched with that of Charlie Pritchett, a friendly, talkative, young American tourist who is going to Mexico to see his girlfriend Laurie and her parents, Dick and Annette. Spinelli harasses Charlie's friends Ernie and Steve for information, while Charlie and Laurie attempt to get rid of their rather unfortunate luggage.
Gray Lady Down (1978)
Action, disaster film, Drama, thriller film
Aging, respected Captain Paul Blanchard is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron (COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS Neptune, is struck by a Norwegian freighter en route to New York in heavy fog. With the engine room flooded and its main propulsion disabled, the Neptune sinks to a depth of or approx.
Distant Drums (1951)
war film, Western
thumb|right|Mari Aldon and Richard Webb at the Castillo de San Marcos for the film's premiere. During the Second Seminole War in 1840, American general Zachary Taylor sends naval lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island home, where the reclusive captain Quincy Wyatt lives with his five-year-old son. The soldiers' mission is to destroy an old Spanish fort being used as a base for Spanish gunrunners aiding the Seminoles, and they convince the reluctant Wyatt to lead the small strike force as Taylor had requested.
Lost Command (1966)
Drama, war film
In the final moments of the 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a weakened French battalion awaits a last assault by communist Việt Minh troops. The battalion commander, Basque Lt. Col.
The Son of No One (2011)
Action, Biography, Drama, Social Drama, thriller film
In 2002, Jonathan White is a rookie police officer under Captain Marion Mathers in the Queens, New York, neighborhood where he grew up. To provide for his wife Kerry and ailing young daughter, he works hard to keep his life on track, but his life is threatened when a dark secret surfaces. An anonymous source reveals new information about two unsolved murders from 1986 in the same neighborhood.