Action-packed + Clever Movies
Platoon (1986) RT 88% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Dec 1997
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • War
DIRECTION: Oliver Stone
CAST: Tom Berenger • Charlie Sheen • Willem Dafoe • Forest Whitaker
God Bless America (2011) RT 67% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Jul 2012
Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Bobcat Goldthwait
CAST: Joel Murray • Tara Lynne Barr • Mackenzie Brooke Smith • Melinda Page Hamilton
The Lone Ranger (2013) RT 31% / Audience 51%
DVD release: Dec 2013
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Western
DIRECTION: Gore Verbinski
CAST: Johnny Depp • Armie Hammer • William Fichtner • James Badge Dale
Roxanne (1987) RT 88% / Audience 62%
DVD release: Jul 2000
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Fred Schepisi
CAST: Steve Martin • Daryl Hannah • Rick Rossovich • Shelley Duvall
Red Cliff (2008)
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama • War
DIRECTION: John Woo
CAST: Chang Chen • Tony Leung Chiu-Wai • Takeshi Kaneshiro • Nakamura Shidō II
Rocky III (1982) RT 63% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Mar 2003
Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Sylvester Stallone
CAST: Sylvester Stallone • Talia Shire • Burt Young • Carl Weathers
Disturbia (2007) RT 69% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Aug 2007
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: D.J. Caruso
CAST: Shia LaBeouf • Sarah Roemer • Carrie-Anne Moss • David Morse
Die Hard 2 (1990) RT 69% / Audience 70%
DVD release: Mar 1999
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Thriller
DIRECTION: Renny Harlin
CAST: Bruce Willis • Bonnie Bedelia • William Sadler • Franco Nero
The Raid: Redemption (2011) RT 85% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Aug 2012
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 ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Gareth Evans
CAST: Iko Uwais • Ananda George • Pierre Gruno • Yayan Ruhian
Premium Rush (2012) RT 75% / Audience 60%
DVD release: Dec 2012
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city. (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Koepp
CAST: Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Jamie Chung • Michael Shannon • Dania Ramirez
Death Proof (2007) RT 67% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Sep 2007
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Thriller
DIRECTION: Quentin Tarantino
CAST: Kurt Russell • Zoë Bell • Rosario Dawson • Vanessa Ferlito
Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Quentin Tarantino
CAST: Uma Thurman • David Carradine • Daryl Hannah • Michael Madsen
Hot Fuzz (2007) RT 91% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Jul 2007
As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Comedy • Crime
DIRECTION: Edgar Wright
CAST: Simon Pegg • Nick Frost • Timothy Dalton • Jim Broadbent
Thank You for Smoking (2005) RT 86% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Oct 2006
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Jason Reitman
CAST: Aaron Eckhart • Maria Bello • Cameron Bright • Adam Brody
Men in Black (1997) RT 92% / Audience 79%
DVD release: Oct 1997
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Comedy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Barry Sonnenfeld
CAST: Tommy Lee Jones • Will Smith • Linda Fiorentino • Vincent D'Onofrio
The Bourne Identity (2002) RT 83% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Jan 2003
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Doug Liman
CAST: Matt Damon • Franka Potente • Chris Cooper • Clive Owen
The Secret Service (2015)
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Comedy • Crime
DIRECTION: Matthew Vaughn
CAST: Colin Firth • Taron Egerton • Michael Caine • Mark Strong
Galaxy Quest (1999) RT 90% / Audience 78%
DVD release: May 2000
The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Dean Parisot
CAST: Tim Allen • Sigourney Weaver • Alan Rickman • Tony Shalhoub
Aliens (1986) RT 98% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Jun 1999
When Ripley’s lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: James Cameron
CAST: Sigourney Weaver • Carrie Henn • Michael Biehn • Lance Henriksen
Pitch Black (2000) RT 57% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Oct 2000
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk ... (more)