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1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 848,310 | Gross: $142.50M
2. Cobra Kai (2018–2024)
TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Decades after their 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament bout, a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves martial-arts rivals again.
Stars: Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña
Votes: 203,820
3. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
To everyone's surprise, including his own, Po, an overweight, clumsy panda, is chosen as protector of the Valley of Peace. His suitability will soon be tested as the valley's arch-enemy is on his way.
Directors: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson | Stars: Jack Black, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman
Votes: 522,936 | Gross: $215.43M
4. The Accountant (2016)
R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.
Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 321,958 | Gross: $86.26M
5. Shogun (1980 TV Movie)
159 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 5,060
6. The Karate Kid (2010)
PG | 140 min | Action, Drama, Family
Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han
Votes: 205,636 | Gross: $176.59M
7. Bloodsport (1988)
R | 92 min | Action, Biography, Drama
"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
Director: Newt Arnold | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton
Votes: 94,039 | Gross: $11.81M
8. Kingdom (2014–2017)
TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Sport
A retired MMA fighter turned trainer juggles keeping his mixed martial arts gym running and keeping his family united.
Stars: Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria, Jonathan Tucker
Votes: 19,635
9. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name while on the run as a fugitive from the law.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Robert Knepper
Votes: 175,356 | Gross: $58.70M
10. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 169,839
11. Kickboxer (1989)
R | 97 min | Action, Sport, Thriller
Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.
Directors: Mark DiSalle, David Worth | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan, Michel Qissi
Votes: 60,890 | Gross: $14.70M
12. Dangerous Minds (1995)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama
LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett
Votes: 57,088 | Gross: $84.92M
13. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
R | 105 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie
Votes: 161,673 | Gross: $37.52M
14. The Guyver (1991)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Young man merges with mechanical device, becoming cyborg superhero. Strange creatures emerge, seeking to reclaim device. He uncovers plot to genetically engineer monstrous creatures.
Directors: Screaming Mad George, Steve Wang | Stars: Greg Joung Paik, Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, Peter Spellos, Michael Berryman
Votes: 5,941
15. Point of No Return (1993)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 30,171 | Gross: $30.04M
16. Johnny English Reborn (2011)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down Chinese Premier Xiang Ping.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Roger Barclay
Votes: 140,886 | Gross: $8.31M
17. Hard to Kill (1990)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Targeted by the mob and its political supporters, hired assassins leave LAPD Detective Mason Storm for dead. Seven years later, he recovers from a deep coma, demanding justice and the opportunity to get even.
Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler, Frederick Coffin
Votes: 32,364 | Gross: $47.41M
18. Black Knight (2001)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Vincent Regan
Votes: 43,314 | Gross: $33.42M
19. No Retreat, No Surrender (1985)
PG | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jason, a Bruce Lee fan, sees his karate instructor/dad beaten by martial art thugs. They move to Seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with Bruce Lee's ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme, J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno
Votes: 18,781 | Gross: $4.66M
20. Action Jackson (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power-hungry auto magnate who is systematically eliminating his competition.
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone
Votes: 12,611 | Gross: $20.26M
21. Gone (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A woman is convinced her kidnapper has returned when her sister goes missing.
Director: Heitor Dhalia | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Daniel Sunjata
Votes: 46,394 | Gross: $11.65M
22. BloodRayne (2005)
R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen
Votes: 37,200 | Gross: $2.41M
23. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Harold Diamond
Votes: 5,365
24. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston
Votes: 13,885
25. Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
2 companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg/Angelina Jolie so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.
Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Palance, Billy Drago
Votes: 5,151
26. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius | Stars: Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Despina Tomazani, Per-Axel Arosenius
Votes: 8,525
27. Spy Hard (1996)
PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Comedy
Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 is assigned by his Director, to stop the evil General Rancor from destroying the world. WD-40 believed Rancor was dead and he teams up with the hot KGB Agent Veronique Ukrinsky to find Rancor and save the world.
Director: Rick Friedberg | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden
Votes: 40,427 | Gross: $29.00M
28. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
When a child, Chun-Li sees her father being captured by wealthy gangster Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for justice and bring down the criminal organization Shadaloo which is led by Bison.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Neal McDonough, Michael Clarke Duncan, Chris Klein
Votes: 25,358 | Gross: $8.74M
29. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned
Votes: 32,877 | Gross: $35.11M
30. Acts of Vengeance (2017)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, Clint Dyer
Votes: 13,637
31. Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Four fighters with different backgrounds come together to train under an ex-MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other.
Director: Michael Jai White | Stars: Michael Jai White, Dean Geyer, Alex Meraz, Todd Duffee
Votes: 20,741
32. Sidekicks (1992)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A bullied teen who fantasizes about being Chuck Norris' sidekick trains in martial arts to fulfill his dreams.
Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Beau Bridges, Jonathan Brandis, Mako
Votes: 9,779 | Gross: $17.18M
33. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.
Director: Kevin Allen | Stars: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson
Votes: 15,920 | Gross: $23.63M
34. Gun Woman (2014)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Thriller
A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
Director: Kurando Mitsutake | Stars: Jennifer Mullaney, Matthew Floyd Miller, Dean Simone, Noriaki Kamata
Votes: 3,373
35. Code of Silence (1985)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take down an irresponsible cop.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Mike Genovese
Votes: 9,399 | Gross: $20.35M
36. Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A kick boxer is out to avenge his brother.
Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Dave Bautista, Alain Moussi, Gina Carano, Jean-Claude Van Damme
Votes: 12,162
37. Born a Champion (2021)
R | 112 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Mickey Kelley, one of the first American black belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, gets pulled away from everything he loves and into an unsanctioned MMA tournament.
Director: Alex Ranarivelo | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Dennis Quaid, Katrina Bowden, Currie Graham
Votes: 4,665
38. Gymkata (1985)
R | 90 min | Action, Thriller
An American gymnast travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton, Edward Michael Bell
Votes: 4,574 | Gross: $5.73M
39. The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012 Video)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Fantasy
Since his rise to power, Mathayus' kingdom has fallen. Now an assassin for hire, he must defend a kingdom from an evil tyrant and his ghost warriors for the chance to regain the power and glory he once knew.
Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Dave Bautista, Bostin Christopher, Tanapol Chuksrida, Kevin 'Kimbo Slice' Ferguson
Votes: 9,144
40. Xiaolin Showdown (2003–2006)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young Xiaolin monk named Omi with a giant yellow head leads a trio of other students to collect powerful items known as Shen Gong Wu while battling the evil Jack Spicer who is also after the artifacts
Stars: Jeff Bennett, Danny Cooksey, Grey Griffin, Tom Kenny
Votes: 7,947
41. The Killer Elite (1975)
PG | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Mike Locken, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins
Votes: 7,226
42. Conor McGregor: Notorious (2017)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Featuring unprecedented access, never before seen moments and explosive fight footage, this is the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at a sporting icon and his spectacular rise.
Director: Gavin Fitzgerald | Stars: José Aldo, Audie Attar, Matt Boud, Ryan Buescher
Votes: 6,564
43. The Master (1984)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An aging American ninja master and his headstrong young apprentice search for the elder man's daughter.
Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Timothy Van Patten, Shô Kosugi, Cynthia Lea Clark
Votes: 1,616
44. Batman Begins (2005 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Crime
You play as Batman and unleash your terror into the hearts of criminals, battling against foes such as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow, Ra's al Ghul, and Carmine "The Roman" Falcone.
Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes
Votes: 14,977
45. The Octagon (1980)
R | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
Director: Eric Karson | Stars: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Art Hindle
Votes: 6,173 | Gross: $18.97M
46. Tenchi Muyo! (1992–2005)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Every man needs a good woman. Tenchi Masaki has six.
Stars: Fernanda Baronne, Flavia Fontenelle, Matt K. Miller, Mona Marshall
Votes: 2,238
47. Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997–1998)
TV-Y7 | 20 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The "heroes in a half-shell" return to stop the evil Dragon Lord with help from their newest member, Venus De Milo.
Stars: Jarred Blancard, Mitchell A. Lee Yuen, Dean Choe, Richard Yee
Votes: 1,797
48. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
When Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae is spilled by a hapless flunky, Fu Manchu sends his lackeys to round up supplies for a fresh batch of elixir, including a precious jewel, which prompts a team of agents to track him down.
Directors: Piers Haggard, Peter Sellers | Stars: Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar
Votes: 2,390 | Gross: $10.70M
49. James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
007 and Serena St. Germaine discover that Katya Nadonova's project, nanobots designed to repair nuclear reactors; have been stolen by Nikolai Diavolo. Together the two set off to new Orleans and beyond to confront Diavolo.
Director: Scot Bayless | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, John Cleese, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench
Votes: 2,528
50. Ninja Academy (1989)
R | 92 min | Comedy
"Police Academy" styled film offers its laughs at the expense of students of the obvious school for ninjas.
Director: Nico Mastorakis | Stars: Will Egan, Gerald Okamura, Kelly Randall, Michael David
Votes: 1,564