Action Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated August 02, 2025
Taken 2
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsRetired special ops agent Bryan Mills and his ex-wife are abducted in Istanbul in a bid to avenge the deaths of his daughter Kim's kidnappers. This time, it's Kim who helps to free her parents -- unleashing Bryan to turn the tables on his abductors.
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Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe Undead Apocalypse continues in the fourth film in the Resident Evil saga as super-soldier Alice finds her way to a supposed sanctuary in Los Angeles, which may just be a deadly trap set for her by the ruthless Umbrella Corporation.
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El Mariachi
1992 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen guitar player El Mariachi arrives in a small Mexican town, drug lord Moco mistakes him for an assassin who carries a trademark guitar case full of guns. Now El Mariachi must elude Moco's henchmen, who plan to shoot first and ask questions later.
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Traitor
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTenacious FBI agent Roy Clayton is assigned to pursue Samir Horn, an ex-Special Ops soldier who betrayed his country and joined the Al Nathir terrorist organization. But as he closes in, Clayton begins to second-guess Horn's true intentions.
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The Eagle
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsHaunted by the disappearance of his father, who vanished with the Roman Ninth Legion on an expedition into the north of Britain, centurion Marcus Aquila sets out to unravel the mystery and recover the legion's eagle standard.
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Killing Season
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTormented by memories of combat in the Bosnian War, American vet Benjamin Ford seeks peace of mind deep in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a Bosnian vet of the same war comes to settle a score, a new war erupts in the American wilderness.
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Maximum Conviction
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTasked with decommissioning an old penitentiary, a former black ops operative and his partner suddenly have their hands full when an elite force of mercenaries raids the prison in search of two newly arrived female inmates.
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Race 2
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this sequel set in the world of horse racing, half-brothers Ranvir and Rajiv Singh return for another complex tale of love, greed and violence. Also returning for the second feature is Inspector Robert D'Costa, still on the brothers' case.
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Grindhouse: Planet Terror
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this extended version of Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, El Wray and his ex, Cherry Darling, fight off a zombie army infected with a biochemical weapon that was unleashed by a psychotic Army lieutenant and an opportunistic scientist.
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Hanna
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsHanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenager raised and trained by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA operative, to become a highly skilled assassin. But when she's sent on a deadly mission across Europe, Hanna takes to an English family and starts longing for a normal life. She must first solve the puzzle of her mysterious past, however. Joe Wright (Atonement) directs this tense actioneer; Cate Blanchett also stars.
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Lockout
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA former government agent wrongly accused of a crime gets a shot at freedom -- if he can engineer a high-risk mission to outer space in order to rescue the president's daughter from a prison where the inmates are in control.
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Dhoom 2
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsHot on the tail of notorious globe-trotting thief who's eyeing a target in Mumbai, two cops team with a lovely expert on the crook's methods. Now, each side tries to outwit the other in a race against time.
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The Sword with No Name
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen the queen he secretly loves becomes caught up in a dangerous political battle that may prove fatal, the queen's bodyguard -- former bounty hunter Mu Myeong -- must take action to save her life.
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The Punisher
2004 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsUndercover FBI agent Frank Castle is devastated when his wife and children are murdered after witnessing a Mafia hit. So with nothing left to lose or to live for, Castle becomes "the Punisher" -- a one-man judge, jury and executioner.
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Foolproof
2003 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsKevin, Samantha and Rob have long been playing a game called Foolproof, where they plan (but never carry out) complex heists. That changes when brutal gangster Leo shows up to case a future heist.
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In Time
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn a near future where aging stops at 25, time is the new currency and the wealthy can live forever. When Will Salas inherits decades of life from a wealthy murdered man, he's pegged as the suspect by the corrupt Time Keepers, who enforce the law.
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Arena
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsKellan Lutz stars in this direct-to-video thriller about a young firefighter who's abducted, tortured and forced to fight for his life in a series of gladiatorial contests masterminded by a sadistic entrepreneur.
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Hostage
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFormer Los Angeles hostage negotiator Jeff Tally finds his newly quiet existence shattered when a family linked to the mob is taken hostage by wayward thieves, one of whom is a serial killer.
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The Missing
2003 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen Maggie Gilkeson's oldest daughter is abducted by a witch doctor turned bandit, Maggie enlists her estranged father's help to find her. But they soon discover that other girls have gone missing -- and that time's running out.
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La Femme Nikita
1990 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsInternationally acclaimed director Luc Besson delivers the action-packed story of Nikita (Anne Parillaud), a ruthless street junkie whose killer instincts could make her the perfect weapon, in this French film that was remade as Point of No Return in the U.S. Recruited against her will into a secret government organization, Nikita is broken and transformed into a sexy, sophisticated "lethal weapon."
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A Man Apart
2003 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen a man known as Diablo takes over as the new leader of a drug cartel, the wife of a DEA agent devoted to ending the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border gets caught in the crossfire.
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Sniper: Reloaded
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFollowing in the footsteps of his father, renowned sniper Tom Beckett, U.S. Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett takes on the toughest assignments -- including a deadly mission to rescue a Belgian plantation owner from hostilities in the Congo.
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Lord of War
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsLooking to break away from his dead-end life, a Ukrainian immigrant goes from two-bit thug to international arms dealer -- closing his eyes to the repercussions of who purchases the weapons. But he soon finds that his profiteering comes at a cost.
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District 13
2004 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this stylized action-thriller, the Parisian government has sealed off the city's ghettos, the most dangerous of which is District B13. Joining forces to infiltrate the sector, an elite-unit cop and a former thug attempt to retrieve a stolen nuke.
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The Hit List
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis gripping thriller follows a man who chats up a stranger during a night of drinking -- and accidentally sentences the people he gripes about to die. But as those on his theoretical "hit list" start turning up dead, a detective gets suspicious.
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