Category Archives: Action

Shaft

GenreAction, Comedy, Crime
DirectorTim Story
ReleasedJune 14, 2019
Runtime111 min.
PlotJJ Shaft, a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family’s help to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death.

The Matrix

GenreAction, Sci-Fi
DirectorLana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
ReleasedMarch 31, 1999
Runtime136 min.
PlotWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

GenreAction, Crime, Thriller
DirectorJohn Hough
ReleasedMay 17, 1974
Runtime93 min.
PlotDown-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry’s one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.

Convoy

GenreAction, Drama
DirectorSam Peckinpah
ReleasedJune 10, 1978
Runtime110 min.
PlotTruckers form a mile-long “convoy” in support of a trucker’s vendetta with an abusive sheriff – Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.

American Sniper

GenreAction, Biography, Drama, War
DirectorClint Eastwood
ReleasedJanuary 16, 2015
Runtime133 min.
PlotNavy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle’s pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave b…

Watch Out, We’re Mad

GenreAction, Comedy
DirectorMarcello Fondato
ReleasedMay 1, 1976
Runtime102 min.
PlotAfter a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.