American action adventure films

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine.

2003 American adventure fantasy comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski

2007 film directed by Gore Verbinski

2006 film directed by Gore Verbinski

2015 film directed by Joss Whedon

1981 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2018 film directed by Ryan Coogler

2011 film by Rob Marshall

1999 animated film directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck

2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1999 film directed by Stephen Sommers

2016 film directed by Scott Derrickson

1984 film by Steven Spielberg

2019 film directed by Jon Watts

GoldenEye is a 1995 action spy film, the seventeenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Martin Campbell, it was the first in the series not to use any story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming. GoldenEye was also the first James Bond film not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, following his stepping down from Eon Productions and replacement by his daughter, Barbara Broccoli (along with Michael G. Wilson, although Broccoli was still involved as a consultant producer; it was his fi

Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the second installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar (2009). Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Stephen Lang reprise their roles from the first film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in an additional role and Kate Winslet joining the cast. The plot follows Jake Sully, a human-Na'vi hybrid, and his family on the habitable moon Pandora. Hunted by RDA forces, they flee to an oceanic region to seek refuge with the Metkayina clan.

1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2013 film directed by Alan Taylor

2016 film directed by David Ayer

2008 film directed by Steven Spielberg

Apocalypto () is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. Set in Yucatán around the year 1511, Apocalypto portrays the hero's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are capt

1989 film directed by Tim Burton

2015 film directed by Colin Trevorrow

2018 film directed by James Wan

1995 film directed by Joe Johnston

2017 film directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning

2011 film directed by Michael Bay

2020 film directed by Jeff Fowler

2017 film directed by James Mangold

2022 film directed by Sam Raimi

2005 film directed by Peter Jackson

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the cyborg law enforcer RoboCop. Unaware of his former life, RoboCop executes a campaign against crime while coming to terms with the lingering fragments of

2005 film directed by Tim Story

2010 film by Ridley Scott

2016 film directed by Gareth Edwards

2016 film directed by Bryan Singer

2022 film directed by Jeff Fowler

2006 film by J. J. Abrams

2000 film directed by John Woo

2017 film directed by Zack Snyder

1995 film directed by Joel Schumacher

2011 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

2000 animated film directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton

2023 Marvel Studios film by James Gunn

2017 film directed by Jake Kasdan

2022 film directed by Taika Waititi

2008 film directed by Rob Cohen

2018 film directed by Ron Howard

Superman is a 2025 American superhero film based on the character Superman from DC Comics. Written and directed by James Gunn, it is the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series. David Corenswet stars as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, and Isabela Merced. In the film, Superman faces unintended consequences after he intervenes in an international conflict orchestrated by billionaire Lex Luthor (Hoult). Superman must win back public support with the help of his reporter and superhero colleagues. The film was produced by Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios.

2019 film directed by David Leitch

2010 film by Louis Leterrier

2022 animated film by Angus MacLane

2022 American film directed by Colin Trevorrow

1997 film directed by Joel Schumacher

1982 film directed by John Milius

2023 film directed by James Mangold

2017 film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts

1986 film by Russell Mulcahy

2015 film directed by Josh Trank