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Top Action Films (#201-413)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Hellboy 2004 Guillermo del Toro 1426
202 Blade 1998 Stephen Norrington 1428
203 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 Matt Reeves 1435
204 Ford v Ferrari 2019 James Mangold 1442
205 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 James Gunn 1447
206 Fast Five 2011 Justin Lin 1458
207 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson 1468
208 Captain Phillips 2013 Paul Greengrass 1471
209 Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 Joe Johnston 1473
210 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 Francis Lawrence 1485
211 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1486
212 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 1491
213 Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021 Jon Watts 1494
214 The Professionals 1966 Richard Brooks 1501
215 Thief 1981 Michael Mann 1506
216 Flash Gordon 1980 Mike Hodges 1508
217 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1511
218 Hercules 1997 Ron Clements and John Musker 1524
219 The Mummy 1999 Stephen Sommers 1529
220 Police Story 1985 Jackie Chan 1553
221 Ant-Man 2015 Peyton Reed 1556
222 Forty Guns 1957 Samuel Fuller 1561
223 American Sniper 2014 Clint Eastwood 1562
224 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 1993 Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm 1575
225 Incredibles 2 2018 Brad Bird 1582
226 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1590
227 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1592
228 Star Trek into Darkness 2013 J.J. Abrams 1613
229 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011 Brad Bird 1615
230 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg 1623
231 Attack the Block 2011 Joe Cornish 1628
232 Dune: Part Two 2024 Denis Villeneuve 1629
233 The LEGO Batman Movie 2017 Chris McKay 1632
234 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1633
235 GoldenEye 1995 Martin Campbell 1635
236 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Lewis Gilbert 1660
237 Django 1966 Sergio Corbucci 1666
238 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1671
239 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 1679
240 13 Assassins 2010 Takashi Miike 1685
241 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 1705
242 Apocalypto 2006 Mel Gibson 1712
243 Super Fly 1972 Gordon Parks Jr. 1714
244 Thor 2011 Kenneth Branagh 1732
245 The Raid 2 2014 Gareth Evans 1745
246 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter 1748
247 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 2015 Christopher McQuarrie 1755
248 La Femme Nikita 1990 Luc Besson 1760
249 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1772
250 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 1774
251 Open Range 2003 Kevin Costner 1776
252 El Mariachi 1992 Robert Rodriguez 1779
253 Zombieland 2009 Ruben Fleischer 1780
254 Supercop 1992 Stanley Tong 1790
255 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1798
256 The Set-Up 1949 Robert Wise 1801
257 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1802
258 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1806
259 Brave 2012 Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman 1808
260 Doctor Strange 2016 Scott Derrickson 1810
261 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 1813
262 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Clint Eastwood 1819
263 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1828
264 Bad Boys 1995 Michael Bay 1851
265 Gangs of Wasseypur 2012 Anurag Kashyap 1857
266 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 Gore Verbinski 1867
267 Captain Marvel 2019 Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck 1871
268 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan 1881
269 The Batman 2022 Matt Reeves 1885
270 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 1886
271 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis 1899
272 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1900
273 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 1903
274 The Steel Helmet 1951 Samuel Fuller 1909
275 Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester 1918
276 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo 1923
277 Battleground 1949 William A. Wellman 1926
278 Iron Man 3 2013 Shane Black 1934
279 Casualties of War 1989 Brian De Palma 1940
280 The Boondock Saints 1999 Troy Duffy 1941
281 Shaolin Soccer 2001 Stephen Chow 1945
282 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick 1949
283 Rango 2011 Gore Verbinski 1964
284 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 William Friedkin 1967
285 War for the Planet of the Apes 2017 Matt Reeves 1968
286 Transformers 2007 Michael Bay 1983
287 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1987
288 21 Jump Street 2012 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller 1992
289 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy 2007
290 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 2013
291 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 Peter R. Hunt 2015
292 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 2016
293 The World's End 2013 Edgar Wright 2021
294 Fury 2014 David Ayer 2029
295 Wolfwalkers 2020 Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart 2035
296 Ip Man 2008 Wilson Yip 2039
297 High Sierra 1940 Raoul Walsh 2044
298 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 Allan Dwan 2055
299 Man on Fire 2004 Tony Scott 2062
300 The Suicide Squad 2021 James Gunn 2093
301 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 Joss Whedon 2103
302 Cloverfield 2008 Matt Reeves 2108
303 Love Exposure 2008 Sion Sono 2109
304 Kingsman: The Secret Service 2014 Matthew Vaughn 2110
305 Man of Steel 2013 Zack Snyder 2125
306 Mystery Men 1999 Kinka Usher 2144
307 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 Gore Verbinski 2156
308 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 Rupert Wyatt 2177
309 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young 2181
310 Set It Off 1996 F. Gary Gray 2203
311 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 George P. Cosmatos 2230
312 Desperado 1995 Robert Rodriguez 2235
313 Atomic Blonde 2017 David Leitch 2255
314 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Richard Donner 2258
315 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 Doug Liman 2296
316 Batman 1966 Leslie H. Martinson 2311
317 Tropic Thunder 2008 Ben Stiller 2324
318 Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior 2003 Prachya Pinkaew 2334
319 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 2335
320 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin 2336
321 Dune 1984 David Lynch 2345
322 Deadpool 2 2018 David Leitch 2366
323 Attack! 1956 Robert Aldrich 2374
324 The Jungle Book 2016 Jon Favreau 2379
325 John Wick: Chapter 2 2017 Chad Stahelski 2386
326 Enemy at the Gates 2001 Jean-Jacques Annaud 2392
327 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 Nathan Juran 2397
328 The Fast and the Furious 2001 Rob Cohen 2408
329 National Treasure 2004 Jon Turteltaub 2413
330 Equilibrium 2002 Kurt Wimmer 2414
331 Pacific Rim 2013 Guillermo del Toro 2418
332 Bloodsport 1988 Newt Arnold 2421
333 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano 2429
334 Spider-Man: Far from Home 2019 Jon Watts 2433
335 In the Line of Fire 1993 Wolfgang Petersen 2442
336 Super 8 2011 J.J. Abrams 2451
337 Runaway Train 1985 Andrey Konchalovskiy 2462
338 Darkman 1990 Sam Raimi 2464
339 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 2471
340 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 2475
341 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 Michael Cimino 2486
342 Clear and Present Danger 1994 Phillip Noyce 2488
343 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann 2494
344 The Patriot 2000 Roland Emmerich 2496
345 Source Code 2011 Duncan Jones 2499
346 Spy 2015 Paul Feig 2506
347 The Toxic Avenger 1984 Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman 2509
348 Enemy of the State 1998 Tony Scott 2516
349 Foxy Brown 1974 Jack Hill 2520
350 Mission: Impossible III 2006 J.J. Abrams 2521
351 Mandy 2018 Panos Cosmatos 2522
352 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2536
353 Patriot Games 1992 Phillip Noyce 2544
354 Shazam! 2019 David F. Sandberg 2548
355 Rush Hour 1998 Brett Ratner 2554
356 Willow 1988 Ron Howard 2555
357 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Renny Harlin 2557
358 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019 Dean DeBlois 2570
359 Ninja Scroll 1993 Yoshiaki Kawajiri 2574
360 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2613
361 Black Dynamite 2009 Scott Sanders 2632
362 The Omega Man 1971 Boris Sagal 2635
363 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 2636
364 Juice 1992 Ernest R. Dickerson 2639
365 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 Hark Tsui 2650
366 Upgrade 2018 Leigh Whannell 2681
367 Crank 2006 Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor 2689
368 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis 2695
369 Mother India 1957 Mehboob Khan 2700
370 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 2703
371 Tokyo Drifter 1966 Seijun Suzuki 2705
372 The Mask of Zorro 1998 Martin Campbell 2710
373 The Italian Job 2003 F. Gary Gray 2715
374 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023 James Gunn 2726
375 Ichi the Killer 2001 Takashi Miike 2735
376 Iron Man 2 2010 Jon Favreau 2741
377 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 2749
378 The Perfect Storm 2000 Wolfgang Petersen 2750
379 Antonio das Mortes 1969 Glauber Rocha 2754
380 The Last Boy Scout 1991 Tony Scott 2755
381 I Saw the Devil 2010 Kim Jee-woon 2759
382 The Impossible Voyage 1904 Georges Méličs 2762
383 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 Nicholas Meyer 2771
384 The Last Starfighter 1984 Nick Castle 2783
385 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2809
386 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 2821
387 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 2829
388 Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021 Zack Snyder 2832
389 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 Destin Daniel Cretton 2834
390 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017 Jake Kasdan 2841
391 Vanishing Point 1971 Richard C. Sarafian 2843
392 Constantine 2005 Francis Lawrence 2853
393 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 Jay Roach 2877
394 The Amazing Spider-Man 2012 Marc Webb 2885
395 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1991 Kevin Reynolds 2910
396 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 2918
397 Raya and the Last Dragon 2021 Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada 2920
398 Demolition Man 1993 Marco Brambilla 2923
399 Death Wish 1974 Michael Winner 2926
400 Von Ryan's Express 1965 Mark Robson 2927
401 Dick Tracy 1990 Warren Beatty 2969
402 Avatar: The Way of Water 2022 James Cameron 2986
403 Fist of Legend 1994 Gordon Chan 2995
404 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 2020 Cathy Yan 2997
405 The Last Dragon 1985 Michael Schultz 3007
406 Sherlock Holmes 2009 Guy Ritchie 3012
407 RRR 2022 S.S. Rajamouli 3039
408 Shaolin Master Killer 1978 Chia-Liang Liu 3041
409 Road House 1989 Rowdy Herrington 3043
410 The Matrix Revolutions 2003 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 3044
411 Live Free or Die Hard 2007 Len Wiseman 3045
412 All Is Lost 2013 J.C. Chandor 3052
413 Outland 1981 Peter Hyams 3059
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