Welcome to our guide to the most Essential Action Movies! Where everyone enters…and only leave. Action is a wide-open genre and term, and we endeavored to include something from every era, style, and movement of action movies. Not to mention some action genre crossovers: sci-fi Equilibrium , horror They Live , and, of course, comedy Beverly Hills Cop. These are the action movies whose influence can be seen in the films that followed. They spawned franchises, pushed back against time, defined and even expanded the genre.
These are the badass movies that make audiences feel cooler from having seen them. In the interest of keeping the Essential Movies as tight and pure as possible, we excluded the genres of war, sports, Western, and samurai. Synopsis: When a massive, unmanned locomotive roars out of control, the threat is more ominous than just a derailment. Can you dig it? Synopsis: John Shaft Richard Roundtree is the ultimate in suave black detectives.
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