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6 Underground (film)
6 Underground is a 2019 Michael Bay action thriller on Netflix, starring Ryan Reynolds as a billionaire who fakes his death and leads six numbered operatives against a dictator; 83 million households watched in four weeks.
A Hard Day (끝까지 간다)
A Hard Day (끝까지 간다) is a 2014 South Korean crime thriller directed by Kim Sung-hun, starring Lee Sun-kyun as a detective who hides a hit-and-run victim in his mother's coffin.
Acts of Vengeance (film)
Acts of Vengeance is a 2017 action thriller directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Antonio Banderas as a Pittsburgh lawyer who takes a vow of silence after his family's murder; also known by its original title Stoic.
Avengement
Avengement is a 2019 British crime action film directed by Jesse V. Johnson, starring Scott Adkins as Cain Burgess, an escaped convict taking revenge on his brother Lincoln's gang; released 24 May 2019 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Baby Driver
Baby Driver: 2017 action heist film written and directed by Edgar Wright, starring Ansel Elgort as a music-obsessed getaway driver with tinnitus. TriStar release; $226.9M worldwide; three Oscar nominations, BAFTA Best Editing.
Bad Ass (film)
Bad Ass (2012) is an American action film directed by Craig Moss, starring Danny Trejo as Vietnam veteran Frank Vega, with Charles S. Dutton and Ron Perlman; released limited April 13, 2012 by Samuel Goldwyn Films, spawning two sequels.
Breaking In (2018 film)
Breaking In is a 2018 American home-invasion action thriller directed by James McTeigue, starring Gabrielle Union as Shaun Russell, who fights four thieves holding her children at her late father's high-tech estate; released May 11, 2018 by Universal.
Brick Mansions
Brick Mansions is a 2014 action film directed by Camille Delamarre, starring Paul Walker, David Belle, and RZA, set in a dystopian Detroit with a walled-off crime district.
Bullet to the Head
Bullet to the Head is a 2012 American action film directed by Walter Hill, starring Sylvester Stallone as a New Orleans hitman who teams with a detective.
Cold Pursuit
Cold Pursuit is a 2019 action thriller, an English remake of Kraftidioten (In Order of Disappearance), directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Liam Neeson as snowplow driver Nels Coxman, who avenges his son's murder in Kehoe, Colorado.
Colombiana
Colombiana is a 2011 action thriller by Olivier Megaton, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, starring Zoe Saldana as assassin Cataleya Restrepo; born from an unmade Léon sequel, it grossed $71.5 million on a $40 million budget.
Contraband (2012 film)
Contraband is a 2012 American action thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur, in which Mark Wahlberg plays a reformed smuggler taking one last job from Panama to New Orleans.
Dead Man Down
Dead Man Down is a 2013 American revenge thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev. It stars Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace in the New York City criminal underworld.
Everly (film)
Everly is a 2014 American action thriller directed by Joe Lynch, starring Salma Hayek as a captive who fights assassins sent by mob boss Taiko; released February 27, 2015 by Radius-TWC, it earned $358,156 on a $10 million budget and scored 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fabricated City (조작된 도시)
Fabricated City (조작된 도시) is a 2017 South Korean crime-action film directed by Park Kwang-hyun, in which an unemployed gamer, framed for murder, escapes prison to expose the conspiracy.
Faster (2010 film)
Faster (2010) is an American action thriller directed by George Tillman Jr., written by Tony and Joe Gayton, starring Dwayne Johnson as Driver, an ex-con seeking revenge, with Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen; CBS Films released it November 24, 2010.
Final Score (2018 film)
Final Score (2018) is a British-American action thriller directed by Scott Mann, starring Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan, and Ray Stevenson, filmed in West Ham's Boleyn Ground before demolition; 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
First Kill (2017 film)
First Kill (2017) is an action thriller directed by Steven C. Miller, starring Bruce Willis, Hayden Christensen, and Ty Shelton, released by Lionsgate Premiere on July 21, 2017; a Wall Street broker must recover bank-robbery loot to ransom his kidnapped son.
Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo (Atrapen al gringo, also How I Spent My Summer Vacation) is a 2012 action film, Adrian Grunberg's directorial debut, starring and co-written by Mel Gibson as Driver, an American criminal imprisoned in the Mexican prison El Pueblito; released May 1, 2012 on pay TV/VOD.
Homefront (2013 film)
Homefront (2013) is an American action thriller directed by Gary Fleder, starring Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, and Kate Bosworth, from Sylvester Stallone's screenplay of Chuck Logan's novel; released November 27, 2013, it earned $20.1M and mixed reviews (RT 42%, Metacritic 40).
Hotel Artemis
Hotel Artemis is a 2018 action crime film written and directed by Drew Pearce, starring Jodie Foster as the keeper of a secret hospital for criminals in 2028 Los Angeles.
Hummingbird (film)
Hummingbird, released in the United States as Redemption, is a 2013 British thriller directed by Steven Knight and starring Jason Statham as a homeless ex-soldier in London.
I Am Wrath
I Am Wrath is a 2016 American action thriller directed by Chuck Russell, starring John Travolta as a former black-ops engineer avenging his wife's murder, with Christopher Meloni; released April 15, 2016, grossing $228,631.
In the Blood (2014 film)
In the Blood is a 2014 action thriller directed by John Stockwell, starring Gina Carano as Ava, a fighter hunting her husband's abductors in the Caribbean; released by Anchor Bay, 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 2 is a 2017 American action-thriller directed by Chad Stahelski, written by Derek Kolstad, starring Keanu Reeves, Common, and Laurence Fishburne. Released February 10, 2017; 122 minutes; $40 million budget; $174.3 million box office; centers on the marker blood oath and Wick's excommunicado.
Killing Season (film)
Killing Season is a 2013 action thriller directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Robert De Niro and John Travolta as Bosnian War veterans on opposite sides; a critically panned, limited-release film grossing about $1.07 million worldwide.
Last Knights
Last Knights (ラスト・ナイツ) is a 2015 action drama film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, and loosely retelling the forty-seven rōnin legend.
Manhunt (追捕) (2017 film)
Manhunt (追捕) is John Woo's 2017 Hong Kong/China action thriller starring Zhang Hanyu and Masaharu Fukuyama, adapting Juko Nishimura's novel and the 1976 Ken Takakura film about a lawyer framed for murder in Osaka.
Miss Bala (2019 film)
Miss Bala (2019) is a Catherine Hardwicke action thriller starring Gina Rodriguez as Gloria, a Mexican American woman kidnapped by a Tijuana cartel; a remake of Gerardo Naranjo's 2011 Mexican film, released by Columbia Pictures, grossing $15.0M and scoring 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Monster (몬스터) (2014 film)
Monster (몬스터) is a 2014 South Korean thriller directed by Hwang In-ho, starring Lee Min-ki as serial killer Tae-soo and Kim Go-eun as vengeful Bok-soon; released March 13, 2014, 526,557 admissions, Lotte Entertainment.