Action films I plan to watch
by gastropod1 | created - 18 Oct 2015 | updated - 01 Oct 2016 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Crazy Six (1997 Video)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime
In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, Mario Van Peebles, Ice-T
Votes: 1,711
2. The Executioner, Part II (1984)
R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.
Director: James Bryan | Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Aldo Ray, Antoine John Mottet, Renee Harmon
Votes: 474
3. Myung ryoung-027 ho (1986)
77 min | Drama, War
A group of elite soldiers is sent across the border to South Korea to destroy a military base. The soldiers are well aware of the inherent suicide nature of their mission, but are happy to risk it all for the benefit of their Great Leader.
Directors: Ki Mo Jung, Eung Suk Kim | Stars: Sung Chol Cha, Yong Chol Choe, Pong Ho Han, Kwang Jo
Votes: 177
4. White Ghost (1988)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, War
An M.I.A. US soldier nicknamed White Ghost lives in hiding in the jungles of communist Vietnam. The US army finds out about him and sends a black ops team to rescue him. However, the team is led by a man who wants White Ghost dead.
Director: BJ Davis | Stars: William Katt, Rosalind Chao, Martin Hewitt, Wayne Crawford
Votes: 473
5. The Firing Line (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action
An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Gallardo | Stars: Reb Brown, Shannon Tweed, Kahlena Marie, Mel Davidson
Votes: 388
6. Cage (1989)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) ... See full summary »
Director: Lang Elliott | Stars: Lou Ferrigno, Reb Brown, Michael Dante, Mike Moroff
Votes: 730 | Gross: $0.62M
7. The Expendables (1988)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, War
Captain Baronski, assigns a squad of misfit soldiers: training them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables." Breaking every rule, they must risk their lives crossing into Cambodia to save the American hostages.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Anthony Finetti, Peter Nelson, Loren Haynes, Kevin Duffis
Votes: 208
8. The Expendables (2000 TV Movie)
100 min | Action
A group of female convicts volunteers for a mission to rescue a woman from a Cuban prison.
Director: Janet Meyers | Stars: Brett Cullen, Robin Givens, Idalis DeLeon, Tempestt Bledsoe
Votes: 198
9. Mercenary for Justice (2006 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A mercenary gets involved in a mission that threatens the lives of his kin. In order to succeed, he must break into one of the most well guarded prisons in Eastern Europe and free the son of the most notorious drug lord in the world today.
Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy | Stars: Steven Seagal, Jacqueline Lord, Roger Guenveur Smith, Luke Goss
Votes: 4,475
10. Detonator (1996)
R | 84 min | Action
Director: Garrett Clancy | Stars: Scott Baio, Charlene Tilton, Shannon Bruce, Don Stroud
Votes: 91
11. Taeter City (2012)
Not Rated | 72 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
By using a mass-control radio-wave emission, a cannibal dictator brings Taeter City's crime rates next to zero, recycling the criminals' bodies as food. Then, the ultimate mutation emerged. Can the elite police squad clear the mess up?
Director: Giulio De Santi | Stars: Monica Muñoz, Santiago Ortaez, Wilmar Zimosa, Giulio De Santi
Votes: 1,194
12. Windfall (2002 TV Movie)
R | 102 min | Action, Thriller
Two thieves are caught in the act of robbing a casino vault, but rather than sending them to jail, the owner decides to hire them as security consultants.
Director: Gerry Lively | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Robert Englund, Ray Wise, Gregg Henry
Votes: 426
13. Killer Flick (1998)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Four outlaw filmmakers hit the highway with guns blazing and cameras rolling, capturing footage - and hostages - along the way. Committed to their art like no filmmakers before them, these rebels will kill to make a movie.
Director: Mark Weidman | Stars: Kathleen Macdonald, Karen Christensen, Fred Dennis, Emmett Grennan
Votes: 125
14. Breaking Point (2009)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A troubled lawyer takes on a high profile murder case that forces him to come to terms with his own past.
Director: Jeff Celentano | Stars: Tom Berenger, Busta Rhymes, Armand Assante, Musetta Vander
Votes: 744
15. Commando Squad (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Kathy Shower, Brian Thompson, William Smith, Robert Quarry
Votes: 253
16. Beyond Justice (1991)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ex-C.I.A. Agent Tom Burton (Rutger Hauer) goes to Morocco with businesswoman Christine Sanders (Carol Alt) to rescue her son, the kidnapped heir to a desert fortune.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Carol Alt, Omar Sharif, Elliott Gould
Votes: 662
17. Air Force One Is Down (2013)
TV-PG | 180 min | Action
Alistair Maclean's highly charged novel is brought to life for a contemporary audience in this tense, international thriller.
Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Jamie Thomas King, Emilie de Ravin, Rupert Graves
Votes: 602
18. Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A left-for-dead nun forced into prostitution embarks on a deadly revenge mission to do the Lord's work, punishing sinners in a strictly personal vigilante Holy War.
Director: Joseph Guzman | Stars: Asun Ortega, David Castro, Perry D'Marco, Maxie Santillan Jr.
Votes: 6,294
19. The Sisterhood (1988)
R | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the year 2021, women have been enslaved by men, with their only hope for freedom lying in the hands of a nomadic band of maiden warriors. The maiden warriors Alee and Vera tap Marya and her hawk to help them.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Rebecca Holden, Chuck Wagner, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Barbara Patrick
Votes: 758
20. Cyborg Soldier (2008 Video)
R | 84 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.
Director: John Stead | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Tiffani Thiessen, Rich Franklin, Wendy Anderson
Votes: 1,167
21. Pandemic (2007)
169 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The bird flu virus spreads through Los Angeles as a doctor from the CDC races to find a vaccine.
Stars: Tiffani Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Eric Roberts
Votes: 1,634
22. Dead Heat (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,240 | Gross: $3.59M
23. Bad Ass (2012)
R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A Vietnam veteran who becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the police show little interest in solving the crime.
Director: Craig Moss | Stars: Danny Trejo, Charles S. Dutton, Ron Perlman, Patrick Fabian
Votes: 19,797
24. Running Red (1999 Video)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Upset over his brother's murder, Soviet special agent Gregori Wallace leaves Russia to start a new life in the United States. Now happily married to a beautiful woman and the father of a ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry P. Jacobs | Stars: Jeff Speakman, Angie Everhart, Stanley Kamel, Elya Baskin
Votes: 486
25. S.W.A.T.: Firefight (2011 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Detroit PD borrows an LA SWAT leader as instructor for 2 weeks training of their SWAT team. After a real SWAT action, a madman with special skills, obsessed with revenge, is released on bail.
Director: Benny Boom | Stars: Gabriel Macht, Robert Patrick, Carly Pope, Giancarlo Esposito
Votes: 12,409
26. Tarragona: Paradise on Fire (2007 TV Movie)
181 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
In 1978, a Spanish coastal campground full of German tourists exploded after a tragic accident. This is their story.
Director: Peter Keglevic | Stars: Tim Bergmann, Sophie von Kessel, Johannes Brandrup, Herbert Knaup
Votes: 235
27. Wicked Blood (2014 Video)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Thriller
Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their "Uncle Frank" Stinson, the ruthless leader of a crime organization.
Director: Mark Young | Stars: Abigail Breslin, Sean Bean, James Purefoy, Alexa PenaVega
Votes: 2,727
28. Command Performance (2009)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
When the Russian Premier is taken hostage at a rock concert in Moscow, it's up to a drummer, an ex-biker, to save him.
Director: Dolph Lundgren | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Molinaro, Hristo Shopov, Dave Legeno
Votes: 3,496
29. Kapkan dlya killera (2009)
88 min | Action
Director: Samvel Gasparov | Stars: Igor Lifanov, Anton Pampushnyy, Rashid Aitouganov, Maxim Drozd
Votes: 27
30. The Heroin Busters (1977)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An Italian policeman goes undercover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring, and butts heads with a hot-tempered Interpol agent assigned to the same task.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Fabio Testi, David Hemmings, Sherry Buchanan, Wolfango Soldati
Votes: 945
31. Hijacked (2012)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Director: Brandon Nutt | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Rob Steinberg, Craig Fairbrass, Gina Philips
Votes: 3,768
32. A Breed Apart (1984)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 1,902
33. The Challenge (1982)
R | 108 min | Action, Drama
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura
Votes: 2,672 | Gross: $3.53M
34. Mercenaries (2011)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama
Andy Marlow, an ex British S.A.S serviceman turned mercenary, is sent into the Balkans after a military coup has arisen to rescue a U.S ambassador and his aide.
Director: Paris Leonti | Stars: Robert Fucilla, Kirsty Mitchell, Robert James-Collier, Danny Sapani
Votes: 1,223
35. Menumpas Teroris (1987)
90 min | Action
Director: Imam Tantowi | Stars: El Manik, Deddy Mizwar, Barry Prima, Advent Bangun
Votes: 27
36. Thunderstorm: The Return of Thor (2011)
90 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A group of religious zealots known as The Death Risers have an evil plot to destroy the world by bringing to Earth the Norse God they worship: The Goddess of the Undead, known as Hel!.
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Ray Besharah, Celine Filion, Jody Haucke, Emanuelle Carriere
Votes: 472
37. Cannonball! (1976)
PG | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Racing across the country from L.A. to New York, a plethora of exotic cars carry contestants hoping to win a very large sum.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 5,173 | Gross: $3.27M
38. Virtually Heroes (2013)
82 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Two self-aware characters in a "Call of Duty" style video game struggle with their screwy, frustrating existence.
Director: G.J. Echternkamp | Stars: Robert Baker, Brent Chase, Katie Savoy, Mark Hamill
Votes: 113
39. Hypersonic (2002 Video)
R | 94 min | Action
In order to win $25 million, Daredevil pilots enter the worlds fastest jet race.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Adam Baldwin, Alex Jolig, Michael Sutton
Votes: 294
40. Rapid Exchange (2003 Video)
R | 97 min | Action, Adventure
The plan:Break in to a 747 during flight and steal 1/4 billion dollars-they have the right team but double cross follows double cross
Director: Tripp Reed | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Lorenzo Lamas, Aviva Gale, Matt O'Toole
Votes: 537
41. Terminator Woman (1993)
R | 105 min | Action
Two martial arts-oriented cops (Sheperd and Trimble) track down a drug lord (Qissi).
Director: Michel Qissi | Stars: Jerry Trimble, Karen Sheperd, Michel Qissi, Ashley Hayden
Votes: 287
42. Hellbound (1994)
R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Two Chicago cops (Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels) investigate a murder until they encounter an ancient demon.
Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels, Christopher Neame, Sheree J. Wilson
Votes: 3,869
43. Navy Seals (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A battle-hardened SEAL Team set off on a mission to destroy a shipment of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Rick Rossovich
Votes: 17,987 | Gross: $25.07M
44. Deserter (2002)
90 min | Drama, War
Unlikely friends in a melting pot of confusion. Simon Murray fights for the French Foreign Legion. Pascal Dupont fights for himself. War torn men question honour, hope, morality...because you can desert everything...except yourself.
Director: Martin Huberty | Stars: Paul Fox, Tom Hardy, Kate Maberly, Aitor Merino
Votes: 1,393
45. Deadly Target (1994)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A dangerous drug lord; a renegade cop; the ultimate showdown.
Director: Charla Driver | Stars: Gary Daniels, Ken McLeod, Byron Mann, Susan Byun
Votes: 349
46. Code Red (2001 TV Movie)
100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A psychologically disturbed solider is forced to come out of retirement to find his brother who has disappeared in the jungle but nothing can prepare him for the alien nightmare he is plunged into.
Director: Ian Gilmour | Stars: Brian McNamara, Marjean Holden, Callan Mulvey, Brett Tucker
Votes: 544
47. W (II) (1983)
93 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Beware of Nosfero's army - they worship strength and have no mercy for the weak. His dangerous cult begins a wave of terror through the wasteland. In their way is Sgt. W2 of the special police forces.
Director: Willy Milan | Stars: Anthony Alonzo, Anna Marie Gutierrez, Alicia Alonzo, Ada Alberto
Votes: 130
48. Virgins from Hell (1987)
93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two sisters plot for revenge against the drug-lord who murdered their family and took their home, now being used as a base for their experiments on aphrodisiacs. The older sister becomes a prostitute in order to get close to the gang.
Director: Ackyl Anwari | Stars: Enny Beatrice, Yenny Farida, Harry Capri, Nina Anwar
Votes: 308
49. Lethal Force (2001)
70 min | Action
After his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped, a gangster is forced to betray his best friend who is also a deadly killer, in this raucous, off-the-wall satire that is to action films what Scream (1996) is to horror movies.
Director: Alvin Ecarma | Stars: Frank Prather, Patricia Dugueye, Cash Flagg Jr., Andrew Hewitt
Votes: 179
50. Comrades in Arms (1991)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure
The Cold War is over, but the battle is still blazing as Russia and America join forces. When a ruthless international drug cartel threatens to impose a new world order of its own, ... See full summary »
Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen | Stars: Lyle Alzado, Rick Washburn, J. Christian Ingvordsen, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 108
51. White Line Fever (1975)
PG | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 2,253
52. Short Time (1990)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.
Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin
Votes: 2,647 | Gross: $4.01M
53. The Bronx War (1991)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime
The Puerto Rican owner of a Bronx strip joint who also heads a street gang that deals in drugs and stolen credit cards gets involved in a war with a local black gang.
Director: Joseph B. Vasquez | Stars: Joseph B. Vasquez, Charmaine Cruz, Julian Scott Urena, André D. Brown
Votes: 120
54. Plato's Run (1997 Video)
R | 96 min | Action
Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Gary Busey, Roy Scheider, Steven Bauer, Jeff Speakman
Votes: 537
55. Diamond Cartel (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure
Only one lusted glance brings Aliya to the events throwing her into the criminal ocean. But in the wirliging of passions and turmoil when she finds herself at the verge of fatality it's ... See full summary »
Director: Salamat Mukhammed-Ali | Stars: Armand Assante, Karlygash Mukhamedzhanova, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Peter O'Toole
Votes: 589
56. Death Machines (1976)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
An evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
Director: Paul Kyriazi | Stars: Ronald L. Marchini, Michael Chong, Joshua Johnson, Mari Honjo
Votes: 671
57. Last Man Standing (1987)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Roo Marcus (Vernon Wells) is a down-and-out guy with a troubled past who was recently released from a mental institution, where he suffered through inhumane conditions and shock therapy. ... See full summary »
Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Vernon Wells, William Sanderson, Michael Copeman, Sonja Belliveau
Votes: 131
58. Killer Force (1976)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A five-man team of professionals undertake a daring robbery at a diamond mine.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian, Christopher Lee
Votes: 758
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