Fast paced + Action-packed Movies
The Bourne Legacy (2012) RT 56% / Audience 58%
DVD release: Dec 2012
The fourth installment of the highly successful Bourne series sidelines main character Jason Bourne in order to focus on a fellow estranged assassin Aaron Cross. The story ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Thriller
DIRECTION: Tony Gilroy
CAST: Jeremy Renner • Scott Glenn • Rachel Weisz • Edward Norton
The Terror Live (2013) RT Audience 73%
"I'll blow up Mapo Bridge." An anonymous call comes into a radio station one day. When it turns out to be legitimate, a terrorist's threats end up getting broadcast live ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Byungwoo Kim
CAST: GeungYoung Lee • Jin-ho Choi • Jeongwoo Ha • Jeon Hye-Jin
Tracers (2015) RT 27% / Audience 37%
DVD release: May 2015
Wanted by the mafia, a New York City bike messenger escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger. (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama
DIRECTION: Daniel Benmayor
CAST: Marie Avgeropoulos • Taylor Lautner • Adam Rayner • Rafi Gavron
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) RT 91% / Audience 91%
DVD release: Oct 2014
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Bryan Singer
CAST: Patrick Stewart • James McAvoy • Michael Fassbender • Ian McKellen
The Negotiator (1998)
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: F. Gary Gray
CAST: Samuel L. Jackson • Kevin Spacey • David Morse • Ron Rifkin
The November Man (2014) RT 34% / Audience 46%
DVD release: Nov 2014
An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Roger Donaldson
CAST: Pierce Brosnan • Luke Bracey • Olga Kurylenko • Bill Smitrovich
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) RT 97% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Sep 2015
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: George Miller
CAST: Tom Hardy • Charlize Theron • Nicholas Hoult • Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
The Abyss (1989) RT 89% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Nov 2000
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: James Cameron
CAST: Ed Harris • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio • Michael Biehn • Leo Burmester
Mission: Impossible 5 (2015)
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to ... (more)
GENRES: Action
DIRECTION: Christopher McQuarrie
CAST: Tom Cruise • Simon Pegg • Jeremy Renner • Ving Rhames
Furious 7 (2015) RT 79% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Sep 2015
Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother. (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: James Wan
CAST: Dwayne Johnson • Jason Statham • Lucas Black • Vin Diesel
John Wick (2014) RT 85% / Audience 79%
DVD release: Feb 2015
After the sudden death of his beloved wife, John Wick receives one last gift from her, a beagle puppy named Daisy, and a note imploring him not to forget how to love. But ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Leitch • Chad Stahelski
CAST: Keanu Reeves • Michael Nyqvist • Adrianne Palicki • Bridget Regan
Nikita (1990)
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government. (more)
GENRES: Action • Thriller
DIRECTION: Luc Besson
CAST: Anne Parillaud • Marc Duret • Patrick Fontana • Alain Lathière
Insurgent (2015) RT 28% / Audience 59%
DVD release: Aug 2015
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart. (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Robert Schwentke
CAST: Shailene Woodley • Theo James • Miles Teller • Ansel Elgort
Taken 3 (2015) RT 11% / Audience 44%
DVD release: Apr 2015
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Olivier Megaton
CAST: Liam Neeson • Famke Janssen • Maggie Grace • Forest Whitaker
The Running Man (1987) RT 61% / Audience 60%
DVD release: May 1999
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Paul Michael Glaser
CAST: Arnold Schwarzenegger • Richard Dawson • María Conchita Alonso • Yaphet Kotto
Equilibrium (2002) RT 38% / Audience 82%
DVD release: May 2003
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Kurt Wimmer
CAST: Christian Bale • Dominic Purcell • Sean Bean • Christian Kahrmann
The Rocketeer (1991) RT 62% / Audience 64%
DVD release: Jul 2001
Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Family • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Joe Johnston
CAST: Billy Campbell • Jennifer Connelly • Alan Arkin • Timothy Dalton
Backdraft (1991) RT 71% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Nov 1998
They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Ron Howard
CAST: Kurt Russell • Robert De Niro • Donald Sutherland • William Baldwin
Live and Let Die (1973) RT 66% / Audience 65%
DVD release: Oct 1999
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big. (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Thriller
DIRECTION: Guy Hamilton
CAST: Roger Moore • Yaphet Kotto • Jane Seymour • Clifton James
RoboCop (1987) RT 88% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Oct 2001
In a dystopic, future crime-ridden Detroit controlled by a powerful corporation, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a company-owned cyborg with submerged ... (more)