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No Man's Land (无人区) (2013 film)
No Man's Land (无人区) is a 2013 Chinese crime western directed by Ning Hao, starring Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, and Yu Nan. Shot in Xinjiang in 2009, it was shelved four years over censorship, released December 3, 2013, and screened in competition at the 2014 Berlinale.
No Tears for the Dead (우는 남자)
No Tears for the Dead (우는 남자, Uneun namja) is a 2014 South Korean action drama written and directed by Lee Jeong-beom, starring Jang Dong-gun as hitman Gon and Kim Min-hee as Mogyeong; released June 4, 2014, 116 minutes, about 600,000 admissions.
Only God Forgives
Only God Forgives is a 2013 crime thriller by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as an American drug smuggler in Bangkok; it competed at Cannes 2013.
Overdrive (2017 film)
Overdrive is a 2017 action thriller directed by Antonio Negret and starring Scott Eastwood and Freddie Thorp as half-brother car thieves caught by a Marseille crime boss.
Paradox (2017 film)
Paradox (殺破狼・貪狼) is a 2017 Hong Kong–Chinese action thriller directed by Wilson Yip, the third film in the SPL series, starring Louis Koo and Tony Jaa.
Parker (2013 film)
Parker is a 2013 American crime thriller directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Jason Statham as a professional thief left for dead by his crew, with Jennifer Lopez.
Peppermint (2018 film)
Peppermint is a 2018 American vigilante action thriller directed by Pierre Morel, starring Jennifer Garner as a mother who hunts the cartel that killed her family.
Point Blank (2019 film)
Point Blank (2019) is a Netflix action thriller directed by Joe Lynch, a remake of Fred Cavayé's French film À bout portant, starring Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, and Marcia Gay Harden, released July 12, 2019.
Point Break (2015 film)
Point Break (2015) is Ericson Core's remake of the 1991 cult action film, starring Luke Bracey as FBI recruit Johnny Utah and Édgar Ramírez as Bodhi. Released December 25, 2015 by Warner Bros., it grossed $15.6 million in the US and scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Polar (film)
Polar (2019) is a Netflix action thriller directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Mads Mikkelsen as retiring assassin Duncan Vizla, the Black Kaiser, adapted from Victor Santos' wordless webcomic Polar: Came from the Cold; released January 25, 2019, 118 minutes, with a sequel in development.
Primal (2019 film)
Primal (2019 film): Nicolas Cage action thriller directed by Nick Powell; hunter Frank Walsh battles an escaped assassin and freed animals, including a white jaguar, aboard a freighter; Lionsgate, 97 minutes, R.
Proud Mary (film)
Proud Mary is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Babak Najafi and starring Taraji P. Henson as a hitwoman for an organized crime family in Boston.
Rage (2014 film)
Rage, also titled Tokarev, is a 2014 Paco Cabezas revenge thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a reformed criminal whose daughter is kidnapped and killed; it received a 28 Metascore and 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Renegades (2017 film)
Renegades (American Renegades), 2017 action-heist film directed by Steven Quale, written by Luc Besson and Richard Wenk, starring Sullivan Stapleton and J.K. Simmons; Navy SEALs recover Nazi gold in 1995 Bosnia; EuropaCorp; distinct from the 1989 and 2022 films of the same name.
Run All Night (film)
Run All Night is a 2015 American action crime thriller, also titled The All Nighter, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from Brad Ingelsby's script, starring Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, and Joel Kinnaman; released by Warner Bros. on March 13, 2015, 114 minutes, $26.5M US gross, Metascore 59.
Sabotage (2014 film)
Sabotage is a 2014 American action crime thriller directed by David Ayer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of a DEA task force whose members are murdered one by one.
Safe (2012 film)
Safe is a 2012 American action thriller directed by Boaz Yakin, starring Jason Statham as a former cage fighter protecting a math prodigy in New York.
Skin Trade (film)
Skin Trade (คู่ซัดอันตราย) is a 2014 action thriller directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham, starring Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa as detectives fighting a Serbian trafficker (Ron Perlman); released 2015, 96 min, R.
Sleepless (2017 film)
Sleepless is a 2017 American action thriller directed by Baran bo Odar, starring Jamie Foxx as an undercover Las Vegas officer whose kidnapped son forces him to recover stolen cocaine in one night.
Snitch (film)
Snitch (2013), directed by Ric Roman Waugh, is a crime drama starring Dwayne Johnson as a father who goes undercover for the DEA to reduce his son's mandatory 10-year drug sentence; released by Summit, grossing $57.9M worldwide.
Stolen (2012 film)
Stolen is a 2012 American action thriller directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage as a bank robber whose daughter is kidnapped in New Orleans.
Term Life
Term Life is a 2016 American crime thriller directed by Peter Billingsley, adapted from the 2011 Image graphic novel by A.J. Lieberman and Nick Thornborrow. Vince Vaughn plays Nick Barrow, a heist planner who buys a million-dollar life insurance policy for his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) that takes 21 days to activate.
That Demon Within (魔警)
That Demon Within (魔警) is a 2014 Hong Kong psychological action-crime thriller directed by Dante Lam, starring Daniel Wu as a police officer who saves a notorious armed robber.
The Commuter (film)
The Commuter (2018) is a Jaume Collet-Serra action thriller starring Liam Neeson as fired insurance salesman Michael MacCauley, blackmailed by Vera Farmiga's Joanna into finding a hidden passenger on his Metro-North train; fourth Neeson-Collet-Serra film, 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Foreigner (2017 film)
The Foreigner (2017 film) is an action thriller directed by Martin Campbell. Jackie Chan plays a Chinese former soldier who hunts terrorists after his daughter is killed.
The Hunter's Prayer
The Hunter's Prayer is a 2017 action thriller, also known as For the Dogs, directed by Jonathan Mostow, starring Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush, adapted from Kevin Wignall's novel, released by Saban Films, grossing $236,820 worldwide.
The Last Stand (2013 film)
The Last Stand (2013) is Kim Jee-woon's English-language debut, an action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as border sheriff Ray Owens stopping escaped drug lord Gabriel Cortez; Lionsgate release, 107 minutes, R.
The Last Witch Hunter
The Last Witch Hunter is a 2015 American dark fantasy action film directed by Breck Eisner, starring Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter in modern New York.
The Next Three Days
The Next Three Days is a 2010 American thriller directed by Paul Haggis, starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks, about a husband plotting his wife's prison escape.
The Night Comes for Us
The Night Comes for Us: 2018 Indonesian action thriller, Timo Tjahjanto's first Netflix original film from Indonesia, starring Joe Taslim as Triad enforcer Ito, hunted by Iko Uwais's Arian after sparing a girl.