Top Action Hero Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jackie Chan

Owen Wilson

Lucy Liu

Xander Berkeley

Shanghai Noon (2000)

6.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western

Country: United States of America, Hong Kong

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

Plot: princess, rescue, martial arts, native american, sioux, travel, chinese, cowboy, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Gal Gadot

Chris Pine

Kristen Wiig

Pedro Pascal

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

6.4 9.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.

Plot: superhero, based on comic, woman director, action hero, dc extended universe (dceu)

Time: 1980s

Cast

Jason Statham

Amber Valletta

Alessandro Gassmann

Kate Nauta

Transporter 2 (2005)

6.3 4.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

Plot: martial arts, chauffeur, miami, florida, workaholic, war on drugs, kidnapping, conference, ...

Cast

Jason Statham

Joan Allen

Ian McShane

Tyrese Gibson

Death Race (2008)

6.3 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

Plot: prison, martial arts, car race, dystopia, matter of life and death, car crash, prison guard, prison escape, ...

Cast

Steven Seagal

Tommy Lee Jones

Gary Busey

Erika Eleniak

Under Siege (1992)

6.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.

Plot: race against time, martial arts, war ship, mercenary, nuclear missile, u.s. navy, hostage-taking, terrorism, ...

Walking Tall (2004)

6.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

Plot: small town, martial arts, war veteran, based on true story, remake, torture, one man army, one against many, ...

Cast

Mel Gibson

Tina Turner

Helen Buday

Bruce Spence

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

6.2 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Australia

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

Plot: arena, dwarf, dictator, dystopia, sandstorm, post-apocalyptic future, villain, camel, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Djimon Hounsou

Ed Skrein

Michiel Huisman

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)

6.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the ruthless forces of the Motherworld threaten a quiet farming village on a distant moon, a mysterious outsider becomes its best hope for survival.

Plot: rebellion, space war, space, female protagonist, militarism, space opera, family values, authoritarianism, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nick Stahl

Claire Danes

Kristanna Loken

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

6.2 7.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

Plot: man vs machine, artificial intelligence (a.i.), saving the world, leather jacket, cyborg, killer robot, dystopia, nanotechnology, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Hideaki Ito

Koichi Sato

Yu016bsuke Iseya

Kaori Momoi

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

6.2 364 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: Japan

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

Plot: showdown, gold rush, outlaw, remake, snow, gunman, crossbow, bloodshed, ...

Cast

Jason Statham

Natalya Rudakova

Franu00e7ois Berlu00e9and

Robert Knepper

Transporter 3 (2008)

6.2 3.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

Plot: martial arts, police, killing, detective, sequel, love, police chase, gunfight, ...

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Brigitte Nielsen

Reni Santoni

Brian Thompson

Cobra (1986)

6.2 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

Plot: showdown, street gang, resistance, psychopath, prosecution, street war, cop, murder, ...

Cast

Ranbir Kapoor

Rashmika Mandanna

Anil Kapoor

Bobby Deol

Animal (2023)

6.1 199 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 201 min.

Audience: R

Story: The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.

Plot: fistfight, shootout, held at gunpoint, machine gun, hand to hand combat, action hero, father son conflict, complex relationship

Cast

Jackie Chan

Owen Wilson

Fann Wong

Aidan Gillen

Shanghai Knights (2003)

6.1 2.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western

Country: Hong Kong, United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Plot: martial arts, london, england, indian territory, emperor, sequel, revenge, murder, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Grace Jones

Wilt Chamberlain

Mako

Conan the Destroyer (1984)

6.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America, Mexico

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.

Plot: gladiator, swordplay, fight, magic, sword, lone wolf, black magic, warrior woman, ...

Time: stone age

Daylight (1996)

6.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

Plot: new york city, taxi, race against time, hero, helicopter, new jersey, taxi driver, river, ...

Cast

Vin Diesel

Lauren Graham

Faith Ford

Brittany Snow

The Pacifier (2005)

6.1 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.

Plot: mission, bodybuilder, body guard, scientist, family, u.s. soldier, death of husband, us military, ...

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Djimon Hounsou

Ed Skrein

Michiel Huisman

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

6.1 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The rebels gear up for battle against the ruthless forces of the Motherworld as unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge — and legends are made.

Plot: space war, sequel, space, female protagonist, space opera, space adventure, action hero, alien spaceship, ...

Cast

Chuck Norris

Lee Marvin

Martin Balsam

Joey Bishop

The Delta Force (1986)

6.0 524 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, airplane, war veteran, fight, patriotism, hijacking, rescue mission, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michael Rapaport

Tony Goldwyn

Michael Rooker

The 6th Day (2000)

6.0 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

Plot: laser gun, clone, dystopia, dna, villain, futuristic, murder, cyberpunk, ...

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