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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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

2017
126 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaFantasy
When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword Ex…
Available on: HBO Max

Ghost in the Shell

2017
107 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionDramaAction
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

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…

Doctor Strange

2016
115 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureFantasy
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Available on: Disney+

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

Captain America: Civil War

2016
147 Min
MOVIE
AdventureActionScience Fiction
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain Ame…
Available on: Disney+

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+

Sicario

2015
122 Min
MOVIE
ActionCrimeThriller
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Hardcore Henry

2015
97 Min
MOVIE
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it thr…
Available on: Freevee

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

2015
116 Min
MOVIE
ComedyActionAdventure
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kur…

Kung Fury

2015
32 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyScience FictionFantasy
During an unfortunate series of events, a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to Nazi Germany in order to …

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…

Elysium

2013
109 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionDramaThriller
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will…
Available on: Netflix

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…

Oblivion

2013
124 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionAdventureMystery
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existenc…

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…

The Avengers

2012
143 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionAdventure
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaste…
Available on: Disney+

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 Hunger Games

2012
142 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionAdventureActionThriller
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defianc…
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.

Machete

2010
105 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyThriller
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

The Expendables

2010
103 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerAdventureAction
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When t…
Available on: Prime Video Sky Magenta TV

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

Surrogates

2009
89 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionThriller
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Available on: Disney+

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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