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Best Action Movies of the 20th Century
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h04After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.
The Matrix (1999)
RAction, Sci-Fi2h16When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Seven Samurai (1954)
Not RatedAction, Adventure, Drama3h27A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h01Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Léon: The Professional (1994)
RAction, Crime, Drama1h50Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
RAction, Sci-Fi2h17A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PGAction, Adventure1h55In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13Animation, Action, Adventure2h14On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Aliens (1986)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h17Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h11After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.
Die Hard (1988)
RAction, Thriller2h12An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13Action, Adventure2h07In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
RAction, Comedy, Crime1h47Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
Ran (1985)
RAction, Drama, War2h42In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Yojimbo (1961)
Not RatedAction, Drama, Thriller1h50A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Blade Runner (1982)
RAction, Sci-Fi, Thriller1h57A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Jurassic Park (1993)
PG-13Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h07A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
The General (1926)
PassedAction, Adventure, Comedy1h07When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
RAction, Drama, Western1h39A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Akira (1988)
RAnimation, Action, Sci-Fi2h04A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Not RatedAnimation, Action, Crime1h23A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Rio Bravo (1959)
PassedAction, Drama, Western2h21A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
The Iron Giant (1999)
PGAnimation, Action, Adventure1h26A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
The Terminator (1984)
RAction, Sci-Fi1h47A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
The Blues Brothers (1980)
RAction, Adventure, Comedy2h13Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
The Wild Bunch (1969)
RAction, Adventure, Western2h15An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Badlands (1973)
PGAction, Crime, Drama1h34An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
RAction, Biography, Crime1h51Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Ghostbusters (1984)
PGAction, Comedy, Fantasy1h45Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
Predator (1987)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi1h47A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
The Boondock Saints (1999)
RAction, Crime, Thriller1h48Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.
The Fugitive (1993)
PG-13Action, Crime, Drama2h10Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.
The Longest Day (1962)
GAction, Drama, History2h58The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Tombstone (1993)
RAction, Biography, Drama2h10A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
Dirty Harry (1971)
RAction, Crime, Thriller1h42When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
Empire of the Sun (1987)
PGAction, Drama, History2h33A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Enter the Dragon (1973)
RAction, Crime, Drama1h42A secret agent comes to an opium lord's island fortress with other fighters for a martial-arts tournament.
First Blood (1982)
RAction, Adventure1h33A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Goldfinger (1964)
PGAction, Adventure, Thriller1h50While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
PGAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi1h53With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.