British action thriller films

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

2012 superhero film by Christopher Nolan

2015 film by Sam Mendes

2009 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2011 film directed by Guy Ritchie

1999 film by Michael Apted

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.

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.

2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2008 film by Pierre Morel

2017 film directed by Edgar Wright

2004 film directed by Tony Scott

2011 film by Jaume Collet-Serra

2024 film directed by David Ayer

2011 film by Joe Wright

2008 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2012 film by Olivier Megaton

2016 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2014 film by Jaume Collet-Serra

2007 film directed by Xavier Gens

Argylle () is a 2024 spy action-comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, and written by Jason Fuchs. The film features an ensemble cast, including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, and Samuel L. Jackson. Its plot centres on a reclusive author who is drawn into the world of spies and espionage after she realises that a new spy novel she is writing mirrors real-world events. It was filmed in Europe from August to December 2021.

2006 film by Joe Carnahan

2005 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2019 film directed by Ric Roman Waugh

2019 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

2018 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

2015 film directed by Aleksander Bach

2021 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2016 film directed by Ariel Vromen

2024 film directed by Rupert Sanders

2010 film by Paul Greengrass

2005 film directed by Louis Leterrier

2012 film by Baltasar Kormákur

2025 film directed by Gareth Evans

2017 film directed by Martin Campbell

2016 film directed by James Watkins

2018 American film directed by Fede Álvarez

2001 film directed by Ronny Yu

2011 film directed by Elliott Lester

2005 film by Tony Giglio

2020 film directed by Reed Morano

2013 film directed by Danny Boyle

2015 film by John Maclean

2018 film directed by José Padilha

2021 film directed by Peter Thorwarth

2018 film by Drew Pearce

1998 film by Mikael Salomon

1975 film by Douglas Hickox

2011 film by Roger Donaldson

2014 film by Yann Demange

2022 film directed by George Kirby and Harry Kirby

2022 film directed by Tim Kirkby

2017 film directed by Simon West

2001 film by John Glen

2005 film by Simon Fellows

2018 film directed by Scott Mann

2009 film by Scott Mann

2019 film directed by Vicky Jewson