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Action movies

Explosive stunts, high-speed chases, and adrenaline-pumping battles where heroes face impossible odds.

Subgenres include: Epic Action, Vehicle-Driven Action, One-Person Army.

Concrete Utopia

1. Concrete Utopia

Thriller Action Epic Action Survival Thriller
6.6
20232h 10min

Overview

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.

Themes

Resource scarcity, Deception within leadership, Leadership legitimacy, Crowd dynamics, Survival hierarchy, Outsider exclusion

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
blue TV
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Heart of Stone

2. Heart of Stone

Thriller Action Crime Computer Threat Thriller Spy Action
5.7
20232h 2min

Overview

An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.

Themes

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Available on

Netflix
Netflix Standard with Ads
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Animation Comedy Action Science Fiction
7.2
20231h 40min

Overview

After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.


Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny

4. Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny

Action Adventure War
6.7
20232h 9min

Overview

To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.


Smugglers

5. Smugglers

Crime Action
6.3
20232h 9min

Overview

During the 1970s, in Kunchon, there were women divers who were able to dive without equipment, including two best friends Choon-ja and Jin-sook, Jin-sook's brother and Hammer. They always collected seafood under water for living. But, as fewer factories started to be built near the beach, the women divers started to have trouble with what they were doing for living. Without any choice, the ship crews decided to join the smuggling business in the water to seek a way for their living. But the smuggling business in their village got too big for Jin-sook's family to handle and the peaceful village was gradually broken.


Justice League: Warworld

6. Justice League: Warworld

Animation Action Science Fiction Adventure Superhero Action
5.3
20231h 30min

Overview

Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals. But when they are swept away to Warworld, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom.

Themes

Leadership under crisis, Illusion vs reality, Unity as power under attack, Collective resistance under coercion, Deception and containment, Violence as psychological currency

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
HBO Max
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The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

7. The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
7.9
20231h 24min

Overview

A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The Monarch is literally out for Dr Venture's blood. An imposing evil from the past reemerges to wreak havoc on the Ventures, The Guild, and even the Monarch marriage—it will take friends and foes alike to restore the Ventures' world to order… or end it once and for all.


Sympathy for the Devil

8. Sympathy for the Devil

Thriller Action Mindfuck Thriller Vehicle-Driven Action
5.5
20231h 30min

Overview

After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

Themes

Deception and betrayal, Crime and consequences, Cat and mouse dynamics, Past violence and guilt, Coercion under pressure, Parenthood under threat

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Hulu
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Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms

9. Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms

Action Fantasy War
6.7
20232h 28min

Overview

Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.


Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

10. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Action Thriller Adventure Spy Action Globetrotting Adventure
7.6
20232h 44min

Overview

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Themes

Deception under pressure, Impersonation and disguise, High-stakes pursuit, Control of cyberspace, Loyalty to mission, Alliance and betrayal

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
fuboTV
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