The best action movies of all time
Action movies dominated the top 10 films of the year, from superhero blockbusters like "Deadpool" to the "Jungle Book" remake. To celebrate the genre that gave us Hans Gruber and a two-hour car chase, PrettyFamous ranked the greatest action movies of all time.
- Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
- Updated
After a major assist from "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," 2016 edged past 2015 to become the biggest year ever at the domestic box office.
Action movies dominated the top 10 films of the year, from superhero blockbusters like "Deadpool" to the "Jungle Book" remake. To celebrate the genre that gave us Hans Gruber and a two-hour car chase, PrettyFamous, an entertainment data site by Graphiq, ranked the greatest action movies of all time.
The data experts looked at all action films with over 15,000 IMDb votes and ranked them on their Smart Rating -- a score out of 100 that takes into account a movie's IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer and Audience Score, Gracenote rating, Metacritic Metascore and the inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross. Ties were broken on box office gross.
From classics like "Seven Samurai" to modern greats like "The Hurt Locker," here are the top action flicks of all time.
Note: Descriptions are sourced (with minor edits) from Gracenote.
Compiled by Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
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Smart Rating: 90.9
Release year: 2014
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista
A space adventurer (Chris Pratt) becomes the quarry of bounty hunters after he steals an orb coveted by a treacherous villain, but after he discovers the orb's true power, he must find a way to unite four ragtag rivals to save the universe.
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Smart Rating: 91.01
Release year: 2009
Starring: Carlos Bardem, Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot — the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
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Smart Rating: 91.05
Release year: 2012
Starring: Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy
Eight years after he took the blame for Harvey Dent's death and vanished into the night, Batman (Christian Bale) is forced out of his self-imposed exile by a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and a merciless terrorist called Bane (Tom Hardy).
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Smart Rating: 91.21
Release year: 1994
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
A SWAT team ace (Keanu Reeves) must keep the speed of a Santa Monica bus above 50 mph, or a madman's (Dennis Hopper) bomb will explode.
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Smart Rating: 91.21
Release year: 2006
Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen
After receiving a license to kill, British agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) enters a high-stakes poker game with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a man who finances terrorist groups.
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Smart Rating: 91.22
Release year: 2002
Starring: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong
A troubled officer (Tony Leung) under deep cover and a corrupt cop (Andy Lau) each try to learn the other's identity within a crime lord's organization.
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Smart Rating: 91.22
Release year: 2011
Starring: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah
A rookie cop (Iko Uwais) leads a team into a high-rise building on a mission to bring down a vicious drug lord (Tegar Satrya).
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Smart Rating: 91.22
Release year: 2013
Starring: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton
A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity's last survivors aboard a globe-spanning supertrain. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control of the engine and the future of the world.
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Smart Rating: 91.27
Release year: 2008
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow
A wealthy industrialist (Robert Downey Jr.) builds an armored suit and uses it to defeat criminals and terrorists.
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Smart Rating: 91.35
Release year: 1994
Starring: Jet Li, Chin Siu Ho, Billy Chow
A Chinese martial arts student (Jet Li) leads his classmates in revolt against Japanese invaders who killed their instructor.
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Smart Rating: 91.35
Release year: 1993
Starring: Koichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono
A wandering warrior must prevent a group of supernatural assassins from claiming a shipment of stolen gold.
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Smart Rating: 91.37
Release year: 1980
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
The Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) gets serious with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and fights three Krypton outcasts in league with Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman).
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Smart Rating: 91.51
Release year: 1988
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley
A blundering Los Angeles detective (Leslie Nielsen) and his boss (George Kennedy) foil a plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
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Smart Rating: 91.59
Release year: 2002
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
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Smart Rating: 91.77
Release year: 2009
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy
Young James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the Enterprise crew embark on a collision course with a vengeful Romulan.
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Smart Rating: 91.98
Release year: 2007
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) continues his international quest to uncover his true identity while staying one step ahead of those who want to kill him.
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Smart Rating: 92.02
Release year: 1976
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith
Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed gives Philadelphia club fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) a title shot.
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Smart Rating: 92.11
Release year: 2002
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
A policeman (Tom Cruise) tries to establish his innocence in a future where law enforcement can arrest killers before their crimes.
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Smart Rating: 92.64
Release year: 1962
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura
Akira Kurosawa's tale of a 19th-century samurai who leads a group of swordsmen against a corrupt local governor.
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Smart Rating: 92.69
Release year: 1989
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott
Archaeologist Jones (Harrison Ford) rescues his kidnapped father (Sean Connery), and the two race the Nazis to find the Holy Grail.
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Smart Rating: 92.7
Release year: 1974
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
Four men hijack a crowded subway train and threaten to murder one hostage for every minute the ransom demand is late.
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Smart Rating: 92.73
Release year: 2000
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
A brutal instructor trains teenagers to use weapons so they can fight to the death on a remote island.
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Smart Rating: 92.77
Release year: 1999
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) joins forces with rebel warriors (Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss) to battle a malevolent cyberintelligence.
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Smart Rating: 92.87
Release year: 2012
Starring: Irrfan Khan, Mahi Gill, Vipin Sharma
Forced to give up his athletic career, a former champion becomes a bandit and terrorizes India's infamous Chambal region.
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Smart Rating: 92.87
Release year: 1981
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Emil Minty
Loner lawman Mad Max (Mel Gibson) fights barbarian bikers for gasoline in the wasteland of the future.
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Smart Rating: 92.87
Release year: 2014
Starring: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller
When a devastating turn of events thrusts them into the middle of a dangerous plot, a child prodigy (Ryan Potter), his robot (Scott Adsit) and their friends become high-tech heroes on a mission to save their city.
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Smart Rating: 92.87
Release year: 2010
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Neil Patrick Harris, Jensen Ackles
Batman faces a vigilante who wants to clean up Gotham but does not follow his moral code.
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Smart Rating: 92.88
Release year: 2009
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
On an alien planet, a former Marine (Sam Worthington) falls in love with a blue-skinned warrior (Zoe Saldana) and sides with her people against humankind's encroachment on their lush world.
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Smart Rating: 93.05
Release year: 2012
Starring: Ariel Winter, Peter Weller, Wade Williams
Bruce Wayne (Peter Weller), now 55 years old, comes out of retirement to don the cape and cowl. As Batman, he fights his old enemies, the Joker and Two-Face, for the final time before an old ally arrives looking for one last fight.
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Smart Rating: 93.14
Release year: 2016
Starring: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
Guided by a no-nonsense panther (Ben Kingsley) and a free-spirited bear (Bill Murray), young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) meets an array of jungle animals as he embarks on an epic journey of self-discovery.
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Smart Rating: 93.16
Release year: 1988
Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto
A scruffy bounty hunter (Robert De Niro) has five days to bring a fussy embezzler (Charles Grodin) from New York to Los Angeles.
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Smart Rating: 93.2
Release year: 1963
Starring: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw
Agent 007 (Sean Connery) lands in Istanbul with a Russian beauty (Daniela Bianchi), a pawn in SPECTRE's plot to kill him.
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Smart Rating: 93.35
Release year: 2012
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) recruits a team of superheroes to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security.
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Smart Rating: 93.37
Release year: 1993
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
An entrepreneur invites scientists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern), a mathematics theorist (Jeff Goldblum) and others to his jungle theme park featuring dinosaurs regenerated from DNA.
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Smart Rating: 93.38
Release year: 1988
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
A New York policeman (Bruce Willis) outwits foreign thugs holding his wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and others in a Los Angeles high-rise.
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Smart Rating: 93.55
Release year: 2012
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem
When M's (Judi Dench) past comes back to haunt her, James Bond (Daniel Craig) must track down and destroy the threat to her and MI6, no matter how personal the cost.
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Smart Rating: 93.76
Release year: 1978
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Jor-El (Marlon Brando) of Krypton sends his baby to Earth, where he grows up as Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) and works at the Daily Planet.
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Smart Rating: 94.02
Release year: 2013
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi
In 2009, Somali pirates storm a U.S. containership and hold Capt. Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) and his crew captive.
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Smart Rating: 94.36
Release year: 2010
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
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Smart Rating: 94.41
Release year: 2016
Starring: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes
Young Kubo (Art Parkinson) leads a quiet life in a small village until a spirit from the past renews an age-old vendetta, plunging him into a search for his father's magical armor to survive.
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Smart Rating: 94.48
Release year: 1971
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
A police detective (Clint Eastwood) defies his superiors to capture a sniper terrorizing San Francisco.
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Smart Rating: 94.64
Release year: 1991
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Two cyborgs from the future battle over the life of a teen (Edward Furlong) who will someday lead humanity against the machines.
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Smart Rating: 94.77
Release year: 1964
Starring: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman
Agent 007 (Sean Connery) drives an Aston Martin, runs into Oddjob and fights Goldfinger's (Gert Frobe) scheme to rob Fort Knox.
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Smart Rating: 94.84
Release year: 2008
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Members (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty) of a bomb disposal unit in Baghdad face increasingly perilous situations as their tour of duty winds down.
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Smart Rating: 94.93
Release year: 1984
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from the future arrives in 20th-century Los Angeles to kill the woman (Linda Hamilton) who will give birth to mankind's post-apocalyptic savior.
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Smart Rating: 94.96
Release year: 2015
Starring: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his young allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the First Order.
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Smart Rating: 95.05
Release year: 1993
Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
A U.S. marshal (Tommy Lee Jones) hunts a doctor (Harrison Ford) on the run who was convicted of murdering his wife.
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Smart Rating: 95.23
Release year: 2015
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
Fortified in a massive, armored truck, loner Mad Max (Tom Hardy) joins Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and her band of rebels as they try to outrun a warlord (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his henchmen in a deadly high-speed chase through the Wasteland.
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Smart Rating: 95.37
Release year: 2000
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
A 19th-century martial arts master (Chow Yun-Fat) gives a sword called Green Destiny to his beloved (Michelle Yeoh), then the two must recover it from female thieves.
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Smart Rating: 96.29
Release year: 1986
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
On planet LV-426, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and a dwindling number of Marines battle an almost-unstoppable army of monstrous predators which wiped out an entire colony of humans, save for one little girl (Carrie Henn).
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Smart Rating: 96.43
Release year: 2008
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Batman (Christian Bale) has to keep a balance between heroism and vigilantism to fight a vile criminal known as the Joker (Heath Ledger), who would plunge Gotham City into anarchy.
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Smart Rating: 97.31
Release year: 1981
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones races the Nazis for possession of a legendary religious artifact.
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Smart Rating: 98.43
Release year: 1954
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves.
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Smart Rating: 98.86
Release year: 1977
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Robots and other allies help a youth (Mark Hamill) and a space jockey (Harrison Ford) rescue a rebel princess (Carrie Fisher) and battle dark forces bent on intergalactic rule.
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- Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
After a major assist from "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," 2016 edged past 2015 to become the biggest year ever at the domestic box office.
Action movies dominated the top 10 films of the year, from superhero blockbusters like "Deadpool" to the "Jungle Book" remake. To celebrate the genre that gave us Hans Gruber and a two-hour car chase, PrettyFamous, an entertainment data site by Graphiq, ranked the greatest action movies of all time.
The data experts looked at all action films with over 15,000 IMDb votes and ranked them on their Smart Rating -- a score out of 100 that takes into account a movie's IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer and Audience Score, Gracenote rating, Metacritic Metascore and the inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross. Ties were broken on box office gross.
From classics like "Seven Samurai" to modern greats like "The Hurt Locker," here are the top action flicks of all time.
Note: Descriptions are sourced (with minor edits) from Gracenote.
Compiled by Alex Greer, PrettyFamous.com
Smart Rating: 90.9
Release year: 2014
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista
A space adventurer (Chris Pratt) becomes the quarry of bounty hunters after he steals an orb coveted by a treacherous villain, but after he discovers the orb's true power, he must find a way to unite four ragtag rivals to save the universe.
Smart Rating: 91.01
Release year: 2009
Starring: Carlos Bardem, Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot — the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Smart Rating: 91.05
Release year: 2012
Starring: Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy
Eight years after he took the blame for Harvey Dent's death and vanished into the night, Batman (Christian Bale) is forced out of his self-imposed exile by a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and a merciless terrorist called Bane (Tom Hardy).
Smart Rating: 91.21
Release year: 2006
Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen
After receiving a license to kill, British agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) enters a high-stakes poker game with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a man who finances terrorist groups.
Smart Rating: 91.22
Release year: 2002
Starring: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong
A troubled officer (Tony Leung) under deep cover and a corrupt cop (Andy Lau) each try to learn the other's identity within a crime lord's organization.
Smart Rating: 91.22
Release year: 2013
Starring: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton
A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity's last survivors aboard a globe-spanning supertrain. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control of the engine and the future of the world.
Smart Rating: 91.37
Release year: 1980
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
The Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) gets serious with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and fights three Krypton outcasts in league with Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman).
Smart Rating: 91.59
Release year: 2002
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
Smart Rating: 91.77
Release year: 2009
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy
Young James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the Enterprise crew embark on a collision course with a vengeful Romulan.
Smart Rating: 91.98
Release year: 2007
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) continues his international quest to uncover his true identity while staying one step ahead of those who want to kill him.
Smart Rating: 92.69
Release year: 1989
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott
Archaeologist Jones (Harrison Ford) rescues his kidnapped father (Sean Connery), and the two race the Nazis to find the Holy Grail.
Smart Rating: 92.77
Release year: 1999
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) joins forces with rebel warriors (Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss) to battle a malevolent cyberintelligence.
Smart Rating: 92.87
Release year: 2014
Starring: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller
When a devastating turn of events thrusts them into the middle of a dangerous plot, a child prodigy (Ryan Potter), his robot (Scott Adsit) and their friends become high-tech heroes on a mission to save their city.
Smart Rating: 92.88
Release year: 2009
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
On an alien planet, a former Marine (Sam Worthington) falls in love with a blue-skinned warrior (Zoe Saldana) and sides with her people against humankind's encroachment on their lush world.
Smart Rating: 93.05
Release year: 2012
Starring: Ariel Winter, Peter Weller, Wade Williams
Bruce Wayne (Peter Weller), now 55 years old, comes out of retirement to don the cape and cowl. As Batman, he fights his old enemies, the Joker and Two-Face, for the final time before an old ally arrives looking for one last fight.
Smart Rating: 93.14
Release year: 2016
Starring: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
Guided by a no-nonsense panther (Ben Kingsley) and a free-spirited bear (Bill Murray), young Mowgli (Neel Sethi) meets an array of jungle animals as he embarks on an epic journey of self-discovery.
Smart Rating: 93.35
Release year: 2012
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) recruits a team of superheroes to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security.
Smart Rating: 93.37
Release year: 1993
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
An entrepreneur invites scientists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern), a mathematics theorist (Jeff Goldblum) and others to his jungle theme park featuring dinosaurs regenerated from DNA.
Smart Rating: 93.55
Release year: 2012
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem
When M's (Judi Dench) past comes back to haunt her, James Bond (Daniel Craig) must track down and destroy the threat to her and MI6, no matter how personal the cost.
Smart Rating: 93.76
Release year: 1978
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Jor-El (Marlon Brando) of Krypton sends his baby to Earth, where he grows up as Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) and works at the Daily Planet.
Smart Rating: 94.41
Release year: 2016
Starring: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes
Young Kubo (Art Parkinson) leads a quiet life in a small village until a spirit from the past renews an age-old vendetta, plunging him into a search for his father's magical armor to survive.
Smart Rating: 94.64
Release year: 1991
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Two cyborgs from the future battle over the life of a teen (Edward Furlong) who will someday lead humanity against the machines.
Smart Rating: 94.84
Release year: 2008
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Members (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty) of a bomb disposal unit in Baghdad face increasingly perilous situations as their tour of duty winds down.
Smart Rating: 94.93
Release year: 1984
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from the future arrives in 20th-century Los Angeles to kill the woman (Linda Hamilton) who will give birth to mankind's post-apocalyptic savior.
Smart Rating: 94.96
Release year: 2015
Starring: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his young allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the First Order.
Smart Rating: 95.23
Release year: 2015
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
Fortified in a massive, armored truck, loner Mad Max (Tom Hardy) joins Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and her band of rebels as they try to outrun a warlord (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his henchmen in a deadly high-speed chase through the Wasteland.
Smart Rating: 95.37
Release year: 2000
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
A 19th-century martial arts master (Chow Yun-Fat) gives a sword called Green Destiny to his beloved (Michelle Yeoh), then the two must recover it from female thieves.
Smart Rating: 96.29
Release year: 1986
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
On planet LV-426, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and a dwindling number of Marines battle an almost-unstoppable army of monstrous predators which wiped out an entire colony of humans, save for one little girl (Carrie Henn).
Smart Rating: 96.43
Release year: 2008
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Batman (Christian Bale) has to keep a balance between heroism and vigilantism to fight a vile criminal known as the Joker (Heath Ledger), who would plunge Gotham City into anarchy.
Smart Rating: 98.43
Release year: 1954
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves.
Smart Rating: 98.86
Release year: 1977
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Robots and other allies help a youth (Mark Hamill) and a space jockey (Harrison Ford) rescue a rebel princess (Carrie Fisher) and battle dark forces bent on intergalactic rule.
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