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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.
Premium Rush
Premium Rush (2012) is a David Koepp action thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as brakeless-fixie bike messenger Wilee, chased across Manhattan by corrupt cop Michael Shannon over an envelope; 91 minutes, PG-13, $20.3M US gross.
Prey (2024 film)
Prey (2024 film), originally titled Kalahari, is an American survival thriller directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil starring Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch, and Mena Suvari; released March 15, 2024 by Vertical, it earned $51,163 worldwide and negative reviews.
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.
Rogue (2020 film)
Rogue (2020) is an M.J. Bassett action thriller starring Megan Fox as mercenary Samantha O'Hara, whose African hostage rescue fails and leaves her squad hunted by militants and a rogue lioness on a poacher lion farm; released digitally August 28, 2020 by Lionsgate.
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.
Run Hide Fight
Run Hide Fight is a 2020 American action drama by Kyle Rankin, starring Isabel May as Zoe Hull, a teen fighting live-streaming school shooters. Premiered at Venice 2020; released by The Daily Wire January 14, 2021; 30% on Rotten Tomatoes; sequel Infidels (2026).
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.
Safe House (2012 film)
Safe House is a 2012 American action thriller starring Denzel Washington as a rogue CIA operative and Ryan Reynolds as the rookie agent guarding him.
Sanctum (film)
Sanctum (2011) is a 3D cave-diving survival thriller directed by Alister Grierson, written by John Garvin and Andrew Wight, executive produced by James Cameron, starring Richard Roxburgh and Rhys Wakefield, inspired by Wight's 1988 Nullarbor Plain cave collapse.
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.
Skyscraper (2018 film)
Skyscraper is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, starring Dwayne Johnson as a security consultant trapped in a burning Hong Kong skyscraper.
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.
Something in the Water (2024 film)
Something in the Water (2024) is a British shark survival thriller, Hayley Easton Street's feature debut, written by Cat Clarke for StudioCanal. Five friends at a Caribbean wedding are stranded in shark-infested open water; released May 3, 2024 in the US.
Steel Rain (강철비)
Steel Rain (강철비) is a 2017 South Korean political action thriller directed by Yang Woo-suk, adapted from his own webtoon, in which a North Korean agent defects with the wounded leader after a coup to stop a nuclear war; it drew about 4.45 million admissions and a 2020 sequel.
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.
Stratton (film)
Stratton is a 2017 British action thriller directed by Simon West, based on Duncan Falconer's SBS novels, starring Dominic Cooper as John Stratton (replacing Henry Cavill). Filmed in Italy and London, released September 2017, it received 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Survivor (film)
Survivor is a 2015 American action thriller directed by James McTeigue, in which Milla Jovovich plays a Foreign Service officer in London framed for a bombing and hunted by assassin Pierce Brosnan.
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 Cold Light of Day (2012 film)
The Cold Light of Day (La fría luz del día) is a 2012 US-Spanish action thriller directed by Mabrouk El Mechri, starring Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, and Sigourney Weaver, shot entirely in Spain and a box-office and critical failure.
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 Devil's Mouth
The Devil's Mouth is a 2026 Prime Video survival horror film directed by Jeff Wadlow, starring Kathryn Newton and Lana Condor as friends trapped in a flooded Thai cave with a bull shark; 106 minutes, PG-13, 41% 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 Grey (film)
The Grey is a 2011 survival thriller directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Liam Neeson as an oil-refinery sharpshooter leading plane-crash survivors through the Alaskan wilderness pursued by wolves.