Category Archives: Action

The Matrix

Poster for “The Matrix”
Genre Action, Sci-Fi
Director Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Released March 31, 1999
Runtime 136 min.
Plot When 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

Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director John Hough
Released May 17, 1974
Runtime 93 min.
Plot Down-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

Genre Action, Drama
Director Sam Peckinpah
Released June 10, 1978
Runtime 110 min.
Plot Truckers 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

Genre Action, Biography, Drama, War
Director Clint Eastwood
Released January 16, 2015
Runtime 133 min.
Plot Navy 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

Genre Action, Comedy
Director Marcello Fondato
Released May 1, 1976
Runtime 102 min.
Plot After 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.