American action thriller films

1999 American science fiction action thriller film

2008 film directed by Christopher Nolan

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.

2005 film by Christopher Nolan

1982 film by Ridley Scott

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.

2011 film directed by Joe Johnston

2016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo

2014 film directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo

2012 superhero film by Christopher Nolan

2015 film by Sam Mendes

2001 film directed by Rob Cohen

2009 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2003 film by The Wachowskis

2006 film by Edward Zwick

2005 film directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez

2022 superhero film by Matt Reeves

1982 film directed by Ted Kotcheff

2007 film directed by Paul Greengrass

1999 film by Michael Apted

2011 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2006 film directed by Justin Lin

2002 film directed by Doug Liman

2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2007 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2007 film directed by Len Wiseman

2015 film directed by James Wan

2011 film directed by Justin Lin

No Time to Die is a 2021 spy thriller film and the twenty-fifth film in the James Bond series. The sequel to Spectre (2015), it is the fifth and final film to star Daniel Craig as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond has retired from active service in MI6 and is recruited by the CIA to extract a kidnapped scientist carrying deadly DNA-targeting nanobots, leading him to uncover a plot by the bioterrorist Lyutsifer Safin to kill millions of people. The film was directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay he co-wrote with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on a story conceived by Purvis, Wade and Fukunaga. In addition to Craig, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, and Rory Kinnear reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah appearing in new roles.

2017 film directed by Denis Villeneuve

1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2021 film by Cate Shortland

2009 film directed by Justin Lin

1994 film directed by Jan de Bont

2010 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

2004 film directed by Paul Greengrass

2017 film directed by F. Gary Gray

Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.

2013 film directed by Marc Forster

2009 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

American action film franchise

1995 film directed by John McTiernan

2002 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2013 film directed by Justin Lin

1971 film by William Friedkin

1996 film directed by Brian De Palma

2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass

2000 film directed by John Woo

1971 film directed by Don Siegel

2006 film by J. J. Abrams

2017 film directed by Jordan Peele

2004 film directed by Michael Mann

2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2018 film by Christopher McQuarrie

2017 film directed by Chad Stahelski

1994 superhero film directed by Alex Proyas

2014 film directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch

2004 film by Quentin Tarantino

2011 film directed by Brad Bird

1990 film directed by Paul Verhoeven