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Top Action Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 672
102 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 676
103 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey 689
104 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 Steven Spielberg 707
105 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 708
106 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 713
107 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 714
108 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 720
109 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi 725
110 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 733
111 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 734
112 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 767
113 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 771
114 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 784
115 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 790
116 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 798
117 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 805
118 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 808
119 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 814
120 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 830
121 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker 833
122 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mamoru Oshii 850
123 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh 852
124 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 861
125 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 864
126 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 865
127 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 879
128 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 880
129 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 891
130 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 892
131 The Harder They Come 1972 Perry Henzell 924
132 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 929
133 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 930
134 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 941
135 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 954
136 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 961
137 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 965
138 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 1002
139 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1012
140 Alien³ 1992 David Fincher 1031
141 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Robert Zemeckis 1047
142 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter 1060
143 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1087
144 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1099
145 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1105
146 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman 1118
147 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison 1119
148 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1124
149 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Andy and Larry Wachowski 1150
150 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1172
151 The Mummy 1999 Stephen Sommers 1179
152 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1191
153 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1197
154 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma 1200
155 A Touch of Zen 1969 King Hu 1204
156 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 1211
157 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1221
158 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1231
159 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 1234
160 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 1236
161 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1237
162 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano 1257
163 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 1265
164 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 Nathan Juran 1271
165 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 1272
166 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 1275
167 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1306
168 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 1310
169 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 1311
170 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 1318
171 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 1324
172 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1325
173 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1337
174 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 William Friedkin 1350
175 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan 1352
176 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1367
177 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 1404
178 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1412
179 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 1424
180 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Tom Shadyac 1435
181 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 1467
182 The Gods Must Be Crazy 1980 Jamie Uys 1475
183 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Michael Curtiz 1484
184 The Sea Hawk 1940 Michael Curtiz 1485
185 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 1487
186 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton 1504
187 Top Secret! 1984 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 1506
188 The In-Laws 1979 Arthur Hiller 1535
189 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1537
190 A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker 1559
191 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1561
192 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon 1567
193 Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius 1576
194 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson 1580
195 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara 1587
196 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass 1593
197 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 1597
198 Blade 1998 Stephen Norrington 1609
199 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1616
200 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1626
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