American action thriller films

2015 film by Ekachai Uekrongtham

2019 film directed by Deon Taylor

Copshop is a 2021 American neo noir action thriller film directed by Joe Carnahan and written by Kurt McLeod and Carnahan, based on a story by McLeod and Mark Williams. The film stars Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, and Alexis Louder, and is set in a small-town police station that becomes the battleground between a hitman, a novice police officer, and a con artist.

1990 film directed by Mark L. Lester

Marvel Studios television special

2014 film directed by Brian A. Miller

1977 film by John Frankenheimer

1994 film directed by Perry Lang

2021 film directed by Adam Randall

2005 animated film

2021 film directed by Brian Andrew Mendoza

1989 film by John Irvin

Predator: Killer of Killers is a 2025 American adult animated science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Micho Robert Rutare, based on a story by Trachtenberg and Rutare. It is the sixth installment in the Predator film series and its first animated installment.

2006 film by Michael Keusch

2000 American film by Bharat Nalluri

2020 film directed by Olivier Megaton

2011 film directed by Lauren Montgomery, Sam Liu

2023 film directed by Renny Harlin

2005 film by Simon Fellows

2022 film directed by Tarik Saleh

1990 film directed by William Lustig

2015 film by Brian A. Miller

2013 film by Uwe Boll

2006 film by Don E. Fauntleroy

1966 film by Roger Corman

F/X (also known as or subtitled Murder by Illusion) is a 1986 American action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel, written by Gregory Fleeman and Robert T. Megginson, and starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, and Angela Bassett in her film debut. The film follows a special effects expert who is hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to stage the murder of a mobster about to enter the Witness Protection Program, but complications arise when he is targeted for murder himself; meanwhile, an NYPD detective becomes suspicious of the circumstances of the case.

1980 film by Peter R. Hunt

2018 film directed by Jonathan Baker and Josh Bakeres

2016 film directed by Paul Schrader

2012 film by Keoni Waxman

2023 film directed by John Woo

Fled is a 1996 American buddy action comedy film directed by Kevin Hooks. It stars Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin as two prisoners chained together who flee during an escape attempt gone bad.

2017 film directed by Steven C. Miller

1975 action film directed by Tom Gries

2020 film directed by David Ayer

1994 film by Aaron Norris

1993 film directed by Stephen Hopkins

2009 film by Mimi Leder

Coffy is a 1973 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier who seeks violent revenge against a heroin dealer responsible for her sister's addiction.

2017 film

2019 film directed by Matt Eskandari

2014 film by Henrik Ruben Genz

1986 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

2020 film by Michael Polish

2024 film directed by Mouly Surya

2017 film directed by Steven Quale

1999 film by Hugh Johnson

1989 film by J. Lee Thompson

1971 film by Melvin Van Peebles

1972 film by Gordon Parks

1984 film by Abel Ferrara

1986 film by Richard Pearce

1977 film directed by John Flynn

2003 film by Michael Oblowitz

1987 film by Tom Holland

2023 film directed by Nimród Antal

2006 film by Michael Keusch

2009 film by Scott Mann

2018 film directed by David M. Rosenthal

1986 film by Harley Cokeliss