Best Action Movies: Thrilling, Fast-Paced, Gripping

Great action movies are more than explosions – they have pace, tension and characters worth following. This page shows hand-picked recommendations that actually deliver: from high-octane blockbusters to leaner, smarter action films. Use the streaming filter to find what you can watch tonight.





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John Wick: Chapter 2

2017
122 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerCrime
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dange…

Central Intelligence

2016
107 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedy
Calvin Joyner, a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal from high school through Facebook. After meeting up, Calvin’s mundane life takes an unexpectedly thrilling turn when…
Available on: Netflix Sky

Deadpool

2016
108 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureComedy
The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities…
Available on: Disney+

Edge of Tomorrow

2014
114 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience Fiction
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of …

Extraction

2013
102 Min
MOVIE
Action
A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he mus…

Pain & Gain

2013
130 Min
MOVIE
ComedyCrimeAction
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed…

Parker

2013
118 Min
MOVIE
ActionCrime
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Available on: Netflix

Total Recall

2012
118 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionThriller
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fight…

Iron Sky

2012
93 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyScience Fiction
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying sa…
Available on: Prime Video

Serbuan Maut

2012
101 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerCrime
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under…

21 Jump Street

2012
109 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyCrime
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. …
Available on: Netflix

The Guard

2011
96 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyThrillerCrime
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.

Inception

2010
148 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionAdventure
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another pe…

Knight and Day

2010
109 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedy
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimat…
Available on: Disney+ Prime Video

Gamer

2009
95 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerScience Fiction
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge be…

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