Top Action Hero Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Bruce Willis

Jeremy Irons

Samuel L. Jackson

Larry Bryggman

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

7.3 6.7K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

Plot: new york city, taxi, gold, helicopter, robbery, police, bomb, riddle, ...

The Animatrix (2003)

7.2 1.8K votes

Genre: Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

Plot: martial arts, artificial intelligence (a.i.), hacker, virtual reality, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, anthology, cyberpunk, ...

Cast

Jackie Chan

Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung

Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei

Charlene Choi Chuek-Yin

New Police Story (2004)

7.2 836 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Hong Kong, China

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

Plot: martial arts, police, gangster, fighter, investigation, observer, partner, revenge, ...

Place: hong kong

Cast

Lakshya

Raghav Juyal

Tanya Maniktala

Ashish Vidhyarthi

Kill (2024)

7.1 508 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.

Plot: train, one man army, relationship, train robbery, aggressive, action hero, high octane

Cast

Will Smith

Martin Lawrence

Vanessa Hudgens

Alexander Ludwig

Bad Boys for Life (2020)

7.1 8.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

Plot: miami, florida, detective, women's prison, sequel, prison escape, murder, drug cartel, ...

Place: mexico

Police Story 2 (1988)

7.1 641 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Plot: martial arts, showdown, police, undercover, fight, investigation, cop, hoodlum, ...

Place: hong kong

Cast

Keanu Reeves

Laurence Fishburne

Carrie-Anne Moss

Hugo Weaving

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

7.1 12.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

Plot: dying and death, mission, man vs machine, underground world, martial arts, kung fu, hero, dreams, ...

Time: future

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Donald Gibb

Leah Ayres

Norman Burton

Bloodsport (1988)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

Plot: martial arts, sports, biography, fistfight, sensei, mixed martial arts (mma), tournament, underground fighting, ...

Place: hong kong

Cast

Mel Gibson

Danny Glover

Joe Pesci

Joss Ackland

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

7.0 3.8K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Plot: showdown, police, loss of loved one, sequel, mixed martial arts (mma), gang, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Bruce Willis

Bonnie Bedelia

William Sadler

John Amos

Die Hard 2 (1990)

7.0 6.5K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

Plot: helicopter, airport, based on novel or book, ambush, cop, sequel, snow, shootout, ...

Unleashed (2005)

6.9 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: China, France

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.

Plot: martial arts, hitman, fight, organized crime, serial killer, fighting, underground fighting, one against many, ...

Cast

Paul Rudd

Evangeline Lilly

Michael Douglas

Hannah John-Kamen

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

6.9 14.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.

Plot: van, dreams, insect, flying, chase, fight, superhero, ant, ...

Cast

Jackie Chan

Anita Mui Yim-Fong

Franu00e7oise Yip

Bill Tung Biu

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Plot: new york city, martial arts, supermarket, diamond, gang war, disabled child, revenge, vigilante, ...

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Kevin Hart

Jack Black

Karen Gillan

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

6.9 9.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, animal attack, sequel, body-swap, adventurer, superhuman strength, duringcreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Will Smith

Martin Lawrence

Tu00e9a Leoni

Tchu00e9ky Karyo

Bad Boys (1995)

6.8 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: miami, florida, mexican standoff, male friendship, witness protection, stripper, car crash, strip club, ...

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

Kevin Hart

Jack Black

Karen Gillan

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

6.8 14.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!

Plot: based on novel or book, video game, fighter, sequel, detention, explorer, based on movie, gaming, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

James Earl Jones

Max von Sydow

Sandahl Bergman

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

6.8 2.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.

Style: irreverent

Plot: based on novel or book, gladiator, fight, magic, repayment, mythology, despot, black magic, ...

Time: stone age

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Dennis Alexio

Dennis Chan Kwok-San

Haskell V. Anderson III

Kickboxer (1989)

6.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, China

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

Plot: martial arts, showdown, rape, sibling relationship, sports, fight, wheelchair, bangkok, ...

Place: thailand

Con Air (1997)

6.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Plot: undercover, ambush, war veteran, psychopath, bravery, mexican standoff, sandstorm, hijacking, ...

Cast

Jackie Chan

Chris Tucker

John Lone

Roselyn Su00e1nchez

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

6.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.

Plot: martial arts, los angeles, california, criminal investigation, interracial friendship, buddy cop, duringcreditsstinger, action hero, ...

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