Action Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated August 03, 2025
Bear
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsWhen their minivan breaks down in the middle of the woods, Nick (Brendan Michael Coughlin), Sam (Patrick Scott Lewis) and their lovely girlfriends soon find themselves trying to escape from an enraged grizzly bear, which will stop at nothing until each one of them is dead. Full of convincing action scenes, this gripping survival thriller features real-life bears instead of computer-generated effects.
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Witchville
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsWhen Prince Malachy returns to his father's kingdom after a long absence, he finds an empty throne, a deserted city and a witch-hunter who claims witchcraft wreaked havoc there. But taking up arms against dark magic will require special skills.
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3 Musketeers
2011 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsUnlike the big-screen swashbuckler of the same name, this B-movie takes a modern twist as NSA agent Alexandra D'Artagnan rounds up three famous spies to foil an assassination plot on the president of the United States.
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Super Cyclone
2012 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThe entire East Coast of the United States faces the prospect of annihilation with a gigantic supercyclone bearing down on it. The only person capable of averting the catastrophe is a meteorologist with an untested plan for thwarting Mother Nature.
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Shiva
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsMumbai police recruit Shiva befriends a rebel journalist who is determined to expose the nexus between the police and the underworld. Both incur the wrath of their superiors as well as a former underworld don who is now an influential politician.
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Greetings to the Devil
2011 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAngel (Edgar Ramirez - Carlos), a former guerrilla rebel, is seeking a fresh start after turning in his arms and giving up his violent ways. But after a victim from his former life kidnaps his daughter, Angel is given 72 hours to track down and murder the members of his former guerilla unit.
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Age of Dinosaurs
2013 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsUsing breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos.
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Cash
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen the prize is a priceless diamond, a good thief will do just about anything to come out on top. But what if a little murder is added into the equation? Two teams of sticky-fingered swindlers find themselves fighting each other for their lives.
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El Rey de la Montaña
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsTraveling through a remote, mountainous region of Spain, motorists Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and Bea (María Valverde) come under deadly fire from an unseen sniper hiding in the hills. Now on foot, wounded and with precious few places to hide, the pair frantically tries to outwit the shooter and discover the reason they've been targeted. Gonzalo López-Gallego directs this nail-biting thriller co-starring Thomas Riordan.
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Retrograde
2004 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsDolph Lundgren stars as John Foster, a time traveler stationed in the Antarctic who leads a team on a desperate mission into the past to prevent present-day contamination from a deadly space-borne virus. But when one of Foster's men revolts, the team's actions in the past threaten to change the present in disastrous ways. Silvia De Santis, Joe Montana and Gary Daniels co-star in Christopher Kulikowski's sci-fi adventure.
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Bare Knuckles
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWaitress and single mom Samantha Rogers struggles to pay her daughter's mounting medical bills, but opportunity knocks when a shady fight promoter promises her major dough if she enters an underground, all-female, bare-knuckle tournament.
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Mob Rules
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsYears after getting shafted during a heist that left them high and dry, a pair of vengeful criminals plot to get back at their slippery ex-partner and will stop at nothing to collect their share of the cash he pocketed.
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Spoils of War
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsDispatched behind enemy lines to destroy a stash of millions in counterfeit currency -- part of a Nazi plot to undermine the Allied economy -- a team of commandos must elude the Germans and fight the allure of taking the money and running.
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Yakuza Weapon
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsMinus two limbs after his first showdown with a yakuza chief, Shozo is remade into a machine-gun-armed, rocket-launcher-legged vengeance machine. Now the kingpin and his men are the targets of a psychotic who's made of more firepower than they carry.
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Mugamoodi
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsA martial arts specialist accidentally becomes a superhero when he steps in -- in costume -- to help the cops catch a criminal. But doling out justice inadvertently makes him the target of one of Mumbai's most wanted.
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40 Days and Nights
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen a colossal tectonic shift causes the seas to rise 5,000 feet, microbiologist Tessa gathers together as much DNA as she can, while defense contractor Josh outfits a state-of-the-art "ark" in a desperate attempt to save every species on Earth.
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500 MPH Storm
2013 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsA rise in ocean temperatures creates a massive hurricane the size of Australia that sweeps cities into the stratosphere and tears a hole in the ozone. Will this be the end for all life on earth?
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AE: Apocalypse Earth
2013 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsIn this post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy, a group of refugees from Earth lands on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive. Richard Grieco and Adrian Paul star.
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Zombie Hunter
2013 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen a street drug turns junkies into an army of zombies, Hunter finds himself with nothing but a beat-up car and a trunk full of guns and booze. Eventually, he stumbles across a small band of survivors.
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Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
2012 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsNot to be confused with the big-screen, vampire hunting mashup, this direct-to-video horror flick has the Great Emancipator battling to save the Union from an attacking horde of Confederate zombies.
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Titanic 2
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsTitanic irony looms when the new luxury cruise liner Titanic 2, setting sail a century after the sinking of its ill-starred namesake, seems destined to come to a similarly soggy end when an ocean tsunami pushes an iceberg into its path. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher Kim Patterson (Brooke Burns) and Coast Guard Capt. James Maine (Bruce Davison) lead the bid to save the giant ship and its passengers from annihilation.
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Sucker Punch
2008 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsGambler and hustler Ray Davidson is scraping hard when he meets street fighter Charles Buchinsky, who has all the talent Ray needs to get rich quick. After cleaning up on their first bout, Ray finds himself deep in debt -- and in danger of worse.
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Yakuza Hunters: Duel in Hell
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsWhen local yakuza turn her old master's dojo into a gambling house and lay waste to the entire neighborhood, fearless warrior Asami vows to save her ravaged community and make the yakuza pay for their crimes.
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Submerged
2005 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsDirector Anthony Hickox's frenetic actioner stars Steven Seagal as Chris Cody, a jailed mercenary promised a pardon in return for taking down rogue scientist Adrian Lehder (Nick Brimble), who's turning Marines into killing machines through mind control. Dispatched to Uruguay to apprehend him, Cody and his commandos raid Lehder's complex, rescue a squad of soldiers he captured and escape on a submarine … hijacked by Lehder's brainwashed assassins.
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Hellbinders
2009 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsA soulless mercenary, an elite assassin, and the last remaining member of the Knights Templar must join forces to defeat Legion before it opens the gates of hell itself and overruns the entire world.
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