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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.
Bullet Train Explosion
Bullet Train Explosion (新幹線大爆破) is a 2025 Netflix Japanese thriller directed by Shinji Higuchi, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi; a reboot of the 1975 Toei film The Bullet Train, about a Shinkansen bomb set to detonate below 100 km/h.
Bushwick (film)
Bushwick (2017) is an American action-thriller by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow, depicting a Texas-secession civil war invasion of Brooklyn, presented as one continuous take.
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.
Criminal (2016 film)
Criminal is a 2016 American action thriller directed by Ariel Vromen and starring Kevin Costner as a death-row inmate who receives a dead CIA agent's memories through an experimental procedure.
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.
Deep Water (2026 film)
Deep Water (2026) is a Renny Harlin survival thriller, a shark disaster film, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley as pilots of a Los Angeles to Shanghai flight that ditches in shark-infested Pacific waters; produced by Gene Simmons, released May 1, 2026, grossing about $8 million.
Escape (2024 South Korean film)
Escape (탈주, Talju) is a 2024 South Korean action thriller directed by Lee Jong-pil, starring Lee Je-hoon as a North Korean sergeant fleeing to South Korea.
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.
From Paris with Love (film)
From Paris with Love is a 2010 action thriller directed by Pierre Morel, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as agents on a mission in Paris.
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.
Green Zone (film)
Green Zone (film) is a 2010 action thriller directed by Paul Greengrass. It stars Matt Damon as a U.S. Army officer searching for weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad.
Hanna (film)
Hanna is a 2011 action thriller directed by Joe Wright, starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Cate Blanchett as a CIA agent pursuing the girl across Europe.
Haywire (2011 film)
Haywire (2011) is a Steven Soderbergh action thriller starring MMA fighter Gina Carano as betrayed operative Mallory Kane, written by Lem Dobbs, released by Relativity Media in January 2012.
Heart of the Beast
Heart of the Beast is a 2026 Paramount survival thriller directed by David Ayer, starring Brad Pitt as Special Forces veteran James Belmont stranded in Alaska with combat dog Odin after a plane crash; filmed in New Zealand, released September 25, 2026.
Hold the Dark
Hold the Dark is a 2018 Netflix thriller directed by Jeremy Saulnier, adapted by Macon Blair from William Giraldi's 2014 novel, starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, Riley Keough, and James Badge Dale in an Alaskan wolf-hunting mystery.
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.
How It Ends (2018 film)
How It Ends (2018) is a Netflix apocalyptic road thriller directed by David M. Rosenthal, starring Theo James and Forest Whitaker as a son-in-law and father-in-law driving from Chicago to Seattle during an unexplained catastrophe; released July 13, 2018, 113 minutes, poorly reviewed.
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.
Hungry (film)
Hungry (film) most commonly refers to Hungry (2026), a British survival horror thriller written and directed by James Nunn, in which tourists lost in the Louisiana swamplands are hunted by a rampaging hippopotamus; shot in Malta, released June 23, 2026. Distinct from Brandstätter's 2026 Austrian documentary and The Hungry (2017).
Hunter Killer (film)
Hunter Killer is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Donovan Marsh and starring Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, and Linda Cardellini, based on the novel Firing Point.
Hunting Season (2025 film)
Hunting Season (2025), also released as Temporada de Sangue and Hunting Season – Blutige Fährte, is an American action thriller directed by RJ Collins, written by Adam Hampton, starring Mel Gibson, Sofia Hublitz, Shelley Hennig, and Jordi Mollà, released December 5, 2025 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.