Indian action thriller films

1988 film by Rakesh Roshan

2005 Tamil film directed by A. R. Murugadoss

Kantara is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda under Hombale Films. The film stars Rishab Shetty in a dual roles as Kaadubettu Shiva and Annappa, along with Sapthami Gowda, Kishore, and Achyuth Kumar.

1986 Bollywood film by Subhash Ghai

2004 film by Rajkumar Santoshi

2023 film by Sandeep Reddy Vanga

1982 film by Ramesh Sippy

2009 film directed by Prabhu Deva

Mohra () is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written, edited and directed by Rajiv Rai and produced by his father Gulshan Rai. It stars Naseeruddin Shah, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Poonam Jhawer, Raza Murad, Paresh Rawal, Gulshan Grover, and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. The film was also the first collaboration among the trio of Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal, who went on to collaborate several times later on.

2007 film by Apoorva Lakhia

2016 film directed by AR Murugadoss

2017 Tamil film directed by Pushkar-Gayathri

film by Venkat Prabhu

2004 Indian war film directed by Milan Luthria

2006 film by Anurag Basu

2014 film directed by A. R. Murugadoss

1998 film by Naresh Malhotra

Aetbaar () is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological thriller film directed by Vikram Bhatt and produced by Ratan Tata. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu and Supriya Pilgaonkar. Aetbaar was inspired by the 1996 American film Fear.

Vishwaroopam (titled Vishwaroop in Hindi; ) is a 2013 Indian action spy film co-written, directed and produced by Kamal Haasan, who also stars in the lead role. The film also stars Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Nassar and Jaideep Ahlawat in supporting roles. The film was shot simultaneously in both Tamil and Hindi.

Kaante () is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language epic heist action thriller film co-written and directed by Sanjay Gupta. Written by Milap Zaveri, the film stars an ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Namrata Singh Gujral, Rati Agnihotri, Rohit Roy, Isha Koppikar and Malaika Arora.

2012 film directed by Puri Jagannadh

2019 film directed by Gopi Puthran

Gunday () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language period action drama film written and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Irrfan Khan in the lead roles. Set in 1971–1988 Calcutta, the film follows two best friends who are also outlaws that both fall in love with a cabaret dancer, which causes rivalry and misunderstandings between them while a police officer tries to take advantage of this situation to eliminate them.

Maanagaram () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed and co-written by Lokesh Kanagaraj (in his directorial debut) and produced by Potential Studios. The film stars Shri, Sundeep Kishan, and Regina Cassandra. Its soundtrack was composed by Javed Riaz.

2000 Indian film by Neeraj Vora

2002 film by Pankaj Parashar

2001 film by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

2003 Telugu film directed by S. S. Rajamouli

2015 film directed by Sriram Raghavan

2009 film by Anthony D'Souza

2013 film by Shoojit Sircar

2008 film by Sanjay Gadhvi

2020 Tamil film directed by A. R. Murugadoss

2019 Tamil film directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj

2024 film directed by Nithilan Swaminathan

2010 Hindi film directed by Mani Ratnam

Khadaan (; ) is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film written and directed by Soojit Rino Dutta. Produced by Nispal Singh and Dev under the banners of Surinder Films and Dev Entertainment Ventures respectively, the film stars Dev in dual roles, alongside Jisshu Sengupta in the lead, with an ensemble cast of Anirban Chakrabarti, Barkha Bisht, Idhika Paul, John Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Sneha Bose, Sujan Neel Mukherjee, Sumit Ganguly and Raja Dutta. In the film, an ordinary fair organizer from a coal mine near the Damodar Valley, is recruited by his dead father's li

2024 film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar

2005 film

2022 film directed by Farhad Samji

2014 film directed by Prabhu Deva

Kantara: A Legend – Chapter 1 is a 2025 Indian Kannada-language epic mythological action drama film co-written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda under Hombale Films. The film stars Rishab Shetty in a four roles as Berme, Mayakara, Annappa and Kaadubettu Shiva, along with Jayaram, Rukmini Vasanth, and Gulshan Devaiah. A prequel to the 2022 film Kantara, the story delves deeper into the origins of the tradition and ancestral conflict introduced in the first film. Despite the release of the predecessor, this film is considered to be the first chapter of the franchise.

2025 Indian film

Kartoos () is a 1999 Indian Hindi action thriller film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and starring Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff and Manisha Koirala. It was the last release of Mahesh Bhatt as a director until the release of Sadak 2 (2020). The film borrows its plot idea from the 1993 film Point of No Return, which in turn is a remake of the French film La Femme Nikita, where Bridget Fonda essays a role which is very similar to that character of Sanjay Dutt.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge, also referred as Dhurandhar 2, is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language spy action-thriller film written and directed by Aditya Dhar. It is produced by Dhar, Lokesh Dhar, and Jyoti Deshpande under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It is a sequel to the 2025 film Dhurandhar and the final installment of a duology. The film stars Ranveer Singh, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, Sara Arjun, Rakesh Bedi, Gaurav Gera, Danish Pandor, and Manav Gohil, with several actors reprising their roles from the first film. It follows an undercover Indian intelligence agent who continues to infiltrate Karachi's criminal syndicates and Pakistani politics while avenging the 26/11 attacks and confronting larger threats.

2004 film by Sriram Raghavan

Tezz () is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Priyadarshan. It stars Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgn, Kangana Ranaut, Zayed Khan, Sameera Reddy, Boman Irani with Mohanlal in an extended cameo appearance. The film revolves a team of Asians place a bomb on a high-speed train operating between London and Glasgow. The train will explode if it slows below a certain speed; unless a ransom is paid.

2008 film by Apoorva Lakhia

1994 film by Kuku Kohli

1995 Tamil film directed by P. C. Sreeram

2015 film directed by Kabir Khan

Dus () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language action spy thriller film directed by Anubhav Sinha, based on the lives of seven fictional SIT (Indian Special Investigation) officers. It stars Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Raima Sen, Esha Deol, and Dia Mirza. It was a critical and commercial success.

2006 film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi

2015 Tamil film directed by Kamal Haasan

2022 Indian film

2020 film directed by Mohit Suri

The Bluff is a 2026 swashbuckler action thriller film directed by Frank E. Flowers, written by Flowers and Joe Ballarini, and starring Priyanka Chopra, Karl Urban, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Safia Oakley-Green and Temuera Morrison. It is produced by AGBO, Cinestar Pictures, and Purple Pebble Pictures. It was released on Amazon Prime Video on February 25, 2026.

2022 film by Mohit Suri

Insan () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by K. Subash. It features an ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Tusshar, Esha, Lara Dutta, Laila, Koena Mitra, and Rahul Dev.

2024 Indian film