Action Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated August 03, 2025
Road of No Return
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDetermined to win the war on drugs, two rogue DEA agents hire a team of hit men to take out the nation's top drug dealers. But when the assassins also rescue an orphan girl from sex traffickers, they find themselves next on their bosses' hit list.
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Special Ops
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen an American special ops soldier is attacked by terrorists but abandoned by the country he loves, he's forced to dig deep and summon every shred of courage he's got in order to get through the ordeal alive.
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Storage
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter his father's murder, grieving teen Jimmy (Matt Scully) goes to live with his uncle, who runs an underground storage facility. As he wanders through the mazelike corridors, Jimmy begins to suspect that one of the renters is hiding evidence of a vicious crime. Aided by his new friend Zia (Saskia Burmeister), Jimmy investigates, but as his search takes him further into the man's twisted life, he learns that he may be in too deep.
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Miss Bala
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDetermined to escape the poverty of her hometown, Laura enters a beauty pageant. But after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland massacre, she becomes a pawn in a violent game between the gang's brutal leader, his rivals and American DEA agents.
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American Warships
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsNot to be confused with the blockbuster Battleship, it's up to the "USS Iowa" to fend off an army of alien invaders who are out to destroy the planet in this low-budget sci-fi thriller.
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Air Collision
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAir Force One and a passenger jet wind up on a collision course after a solar storm destroys the air traffic control system. Now those on the ground and on the planes must work feverishly to avert disaster.
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Java Heat
2013 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen a suicide bombing rocks Indonesia, expatriate American cop Jake Travers and local detective Hashim team up to find the culprit. The twisting trail of clues leads to a mysterious figure called Malik, who's more than just another terrorist.
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Tower Block
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMonths after witnessing a brutal murder in their condemned London high-rise, a handful of tenants find themselves marked for death by a mysterious sniper. Despite escalating tensions, can they band together long enough to make an escape?
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Maximum Risk
1996 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter learning that the slain twin brother he never knew was a criminal who had juicy information on gangsters, FBI agents and drug dealers, French cop Alain Moreau takes on his sibling's identity to seek vengeance for his death.
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Replicant
2001 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFrustrated by the fruitless attempts to bring down a homicidal maniac known as "the Torch" (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a secret government agency makes a clone (also Van Damme) of the psychopath, believing that the replicant will be able to predict the killer's next move. Directed by acclaimed Hong Kong director Ringo Lam (City on Fire), this high-paced action thriller also stars Michael Rooker (Jumper) and Catherine Dent.
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No Good Deed
2002 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this film based on a Dashiell Hammett story, Samuel L. Jackson is Jack, a cop who, while chasing down a runaway, stumbles upon a mob robbing a bank and is abducted by the criminals. They keep Jack at a hideaway with only the ringleader's girlfriend, Erin (Milla Jovovich), to keep watch. Soon, the two begin to play on each other's weaknesses, trying to figure out who's manipulating whom, and later make a connection that trumps all others.
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Big Brother
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter a big-shot politician's son throws acid on his sister's face, a mild-mannered man decides to take action. His choice to seek justice makes him a hero to his family and to the public, who are thrilled to see an ordinary person take a stand.
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Juncture
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsLearning that she has just months left to live, soft-spoken businesswoman Anna Carter transforms herself into a ruthless vigilante bent on hunting down rapists and other vile criminals who have somehow eluded justice ... until now.
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Into the Blue 2: The Reef
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen they're hired to recover the lost treasure of Columbus, married scuba divers Sebastian (Chris Carmack) and Dani (Laura Vandervoort) think they've hit the jackpot. But as they get closer to the fortune, the couple begins to suspect their employers have their own agenda. Hitting upon the real plan, the two come to the chilling realization that they may be expendable and that there's much more than riches at stake.
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The King of Fighters
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsKyo Kusanagi (Sean Faris), his rival Iori Yagami (Will Yun Lee) and other stars of the Japanese video game sensation King of Fighters come to adrenaline-filled life in this butt-kicking martial arts extravaganza from ace action auteur Gordon Chan. The exciting fighting-tournament adventure also stars David Leitch as Terry Bogard, Maggie Q as gorgeous Mai Shiranui and Ray Park as the powerful criminal Rugal Bernstein.
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The Bannen Way
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis Web-based action series follows the adventures of happy-go-lucky con man Neal Bannen, who tries to quit his life of crime but quickly finds himself in hock to a mobster who orders him to pull off one final job to settle the debt.
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200 mph
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race known as Sepulveda Suicide, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the wheel. But to win, he'll need to modify his trusty 1978 Datsun 280Z -- with help from a pretty mechanic (Hennely Jimenez) -- to get the maximum speed out of its machinery.
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Victim
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA young man is kidnapped and subjected to unspeakable mental and physical torture at the hands of a mysterious doctor and his silent, brutal sidekick. But what has he done to warrant such treatment, and what is the doctor's ultimate plan for him?
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X
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis steamy thriller follows veteran call girl Holly Rowe and teen runaway turned hooker Shay Ryan, strangers who find themselves thrown together and running for their lives through the sinister world of Sydney, Australia's underground sex trade.
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House of the Rising Sun
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile working as a bouncer at a strip club, a former cop with a criminal past finds himself at the center of a violent robbery that exposes secrets he's worked hard to keep hidden. Now, to clear his own name, he has no choice but to mix with the mob.
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Battledogs
2013 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAll of Manhattan is quarantined when the Lupine Virus spreads like wildfire, turning innocent civilians into ravenous wolf-men. Nothing short of a nuclear blast can stop the monstrous virus -- unless someone finds a cure.
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
2004 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsEager to find a rare orchid rumored to hold the key to prolonging life, a team of scientists sets out for the jungle. But what they don't know is that the flower is protected by anacondas made even stronger and deadlier by the mysterious plant. Now on the run from the voracious reptiles, the expedition -- led by the steely Bill Johnson (Johnny Messner) -- must come up with a plan to defeat the slithering superbeasts.
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Snakes on a Plane
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsTasked with transporting murder witness Sean Jones to Los Angeles, a badass FBI agent has to battle a horde of venomous snakes that were unleashed midflight to prevent Jones from taking the stand against the killer.
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80 Minutes
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAlex owes an angry creditor $15,000, and if he doesn't pay it back within the next 80 minutes, he's dead. Injected with a time-delayed poison, Alex frantically races all over Berlin looking for money but finds more problems instead.
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Paintball
2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsDuring a serious paintball competition, eight strangers fall under life-threatening attack by an invisible enemy in the woods. Reluctant to trust each other but too afraid to be alone, the group members struggle to make it through the ordeal alive.
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