Movies in the Action/Thriller genre

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License to Kill

By 1989 and the release of Licence to Kill, James Bond had a lot of competition in the action genre. With so many higher-profile contenders (like Batman) in the arena, 007's popularity hit an all-time low. Audiences seemed less inclined to see th...

Run Time: 2:13
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John Glen
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Caroline Bliss, Desmond Llewelyn, ...
Live and Let Die

Following six James Bond movies with Sean Connery (and one with the dead-on-arrival George Lazenby), it was difficult -- to say the least -- for fans to accept the transition to wisecracking Roger Moore when he debuted in 1973. It didn't help t...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Bernard Lee, Gloria Hendry, ...
Live Free or Die Hard

After twelve years haunting the shelves of video stores, John McClane (Bruce Willis) has been exhumed. The indefatigable hero of three Die Hard films during the 1980s and 1990s appeared to have reached his "sell by" expiration date with the lacklu...

Run Time: 2:10
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Len Wiseman
Cast: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, ...
Living Daylights, The

I'll be among the first to admit that Timothy Dalton is a fine actor. But giving a solid performance has little to do with being a good James Bond, and, as accomplished as Dalton is, he's a failure as 007 in The Living Daylights (to give him ...

Run Time: 210
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John Glen
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Caroline Bliss, Desmond Llewelyn, ...
London Has Fallen

2013’s Olympus Has Fallen was a surprisingly entertaining Die Hard knock-off set in Washington D.C. with intrepid Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) out to rescue President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) from the hands of terrorists....

Run Time: 1:39
U.S. Release Date: 2016-03-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Babak Najafi
Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, ...
Man with the Golden Gun, The

Few will argue that The Man with the Golden Gun is the silliest of all the James Bond motion pictures (Casino Royale excepted). From the return appearance of Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton Davis) to the ridiculous martial arts fight where two s...

Run Time: 2:08
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Desmond Llewelyn, Bernard Lee, ...
Max Payne

"I don't believe in heaven. I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death." So states Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg), elucidating his nihilistic creed during the film's opening moments. While the movie bearing the title character's name h...

Run Time: 1:28
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John Moore
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, ...
Mile 22

For some reason, there has been a move by a few critics to politicize their reviews of Mile 22, Peter Berg’s tightly-constructed espionage thriller. I guess one side-effect of living in a hyper-partisan era is that some films aren’t allowe...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2018-08-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, ...
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, The

In his famous 1944 speech to the Third Army, General George S. Patton said the following: “The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly.” I don’t know whether director Guy Ritchie thought of those w...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2024-04-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, ...
Miss Bala

Miss Bala is a reworking of a 2011 Mexican film. Although the movies may share the same name, they have different agendas. The original Miss Bala focused more on the dramatic elements than the action/thriller ones and wasn’t afraid to get d...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Cristina Rodlo, ...