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115 action titles on Max rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.

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The Dark Knight (2008)
★ 9.1 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 85   PG-13 · 2h 32m · Action · Thriller · Crime
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King poster
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
★ 9.0 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 94   PG-13 · 3h 21m · Adventure · Fantasy · Action
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
★ 8.9 IMDb   🍅 91%   MC 92   PG-13 · 2h 58m · Adventure · Fantasy · Action
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to prote
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
★ 8.8 IMDb   🍅 95%   MC 87   PG-13 · 2h 59m · Adventure · Fantasy · Action
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers - Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard
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Seven Samurai (1954)
★ 8.6 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 98   Not Rated · 3h 27m · Action · Drama
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
★ 8.4 IMDb   🍅 87%   MC 78   PG-13 · 2h 44m · Action · Crime · Thriller
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years
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Batman Begins (2005)
★ 8.2 IMDb   🍅 85%   MC 70   PG-13 · 2h 20m · Drama · Crime · Action
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 100%   PG-13 · 1h 15m · Animation · Action · Science Fiction
The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.
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Castle in the Sky (1986)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 96%   MC 78   PG · 2h 4m · Adventure · Fantasy · Animation · Action · Family
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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The Hidden Fortress (1958)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 96%   MC 89   Not Rated · 2h 6m · Drama · Action · Adventure
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 71%   MC 54   R · 4h 2m · Action · Adventure · Fantasy
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic p
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Ne Zha 2 (2025)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 91%   MC 68   PG-13 · 2h 24m · Animation · Action · Fantasy · Adventure
After a catastrophic event leaves their bodies destroyed, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are granted a fragile second chance at life. As tensions rise between the dragon clans and celestial forces, the two must undergo a series of p
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 100%   Not Rated · 1h 21m · Action · Drama · Adventure · Thriller
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey poster
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 64%   MC 58   PG-13 · 2h 49m · Adventure · Fantasy · Action
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 74%   MC 66   PG-13 · 2h 41m · Fantasy · Adventure · Action
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
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X-Men: First Class (2011)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 86%   MC 65   PG-13 · 2h 11m · Action · Science Fiction · Adventure
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working to
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Sicario (2015)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 91%   MC 82   R · 2h 1m · Action · Crime · Thriller
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 100%   R · 1h 30m · Animation · Action · Adventure · Fantasy
Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the Justice League, Teen Titans, Suicide Squa
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Deadpool 2 (2018)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 83%   MC 66   R · 1h 59m · Action · Comedy · Adventure
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
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Watchmen (2009)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 64%   MC 56   R · 2h 42m · Mystery · Action · Science Fiction
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 82%   MC 68   PG-13 · 1h 45m · Thriller · Action · Drama · Science Fiction
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him
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The Boy and the Beast (2015)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 65   PG-13 · 1h 59m · Action · Adventure · Animation · Drama · Family · Fantasy
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spi
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Lady Snowblood (1973)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 80   Not Rated · 1h 37m · Action · Crime · Drama
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 85%   Not Rated · 1h 24m · Drama · Action · Adventure · Thriller
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
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Speedy (1928)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 100%   Passed · 1h 25m · Comedy · Action
A hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
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Sinners (2025)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 84   R · 2h 17m · Horror · Action · Thriller
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
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Batman (1989)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 77%   MC 69   PG-13 · 2h 6m · Fantasy · Action · Crime
Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a def
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Police Story (1985)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 78   PG-13 · 1h 40m · Action · Crime · Comedy
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testi
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
★ 7.5 IMDb   R · 1h 29m · Drama · Action · Adventure · Thriller
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
★ 7.5 IMDb   Not Rated · 1h 21m · Action · Adventure · Thriller
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
★ 7.5 IMDb   Not Rated · 1h 29m · Action · Crime · Thriller · Adventure
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 59%   MC 59   R · 2h 24m · Action · Adventure · Fantasy
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by
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Ready Player One (2018)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 71%   MC 64   PG-13 · 2h 20m · Adventure · Action · Science Fiction
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 79   R · 2h 28m · Action · Science Fiction · Adventure
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided ov
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Superman (1978)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 87%   MC 82   PG · 2h 23m · Science Fiction · Action · Adventure
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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Justice League: Doom (2012)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 100%   PG-13 · 1h 15m · Action · Animation · Science Fiction · Fantasy
An adaptation of Mark Waid's "Tower of Babel" story from the JLA comic. Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 85%   Not Rated · 1h 33m · Drama · Action · Adventure
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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Kill! (1968)
★ 7.4 IMDb   Not Rated · 1h 55m · Action · Comedy
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted
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Wonder Woman (2017)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 93%   MC 76   PG-13 · 2h 21m · Action · Adventure · Fantasy
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 75   PG · 1h 44m · Animation · Action · Comedy · Family
A cooler-than-ever Batman must face the usual villains as the Joker plots a takeover of Gotham City. But when Bruce Wayne accidentally adopts a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick, he’s forced to give up his
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Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 93%   R · 1h 53m · Action · Comedy
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
★ 7.3 IMDb   TV-PG · 1h 44m · Drama · Action · Adventure
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencin
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The Suicide Squad (2021)
★ 7.2 IMDb   MC 72   R · 2h 12m · Action · Comedy · Adventure
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto
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Rise of the Guardians (2012)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 74%   MC 58   PG · 1h 37m · Action · Adventure · Animation · Family · Fantasy
When an evil spirit known as Pitch Black lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the ea
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Justice League: War (2014)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 57%   PG-13 · 1h 19m · Animation · Action
The world is under attack by an alien armada led by the powerful Apokoliptian, Darkseid. A group of superheroes consisting of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Shazam must set aside th
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Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 90%   R · 2h 14m · Action · Drama
In late 19th-century Canton, legendary hero Wong Fei-Hung battles foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee returns from America totally westernised, Wong assumes the role of prote
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Infernal Affairs II (2003)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 75%   Not Rated · 1h 59m · Action · Thriller · Crime
In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.
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Man of Steel (2013)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 56%   MC 55   PG-13 · 2h 23m · Action · Adventure · Science Fiction
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save t
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Batman Returns (1992)
★ 7.1 IMDb   🍅 81%   MC 68   PG-13 · 2h 6m · Action · Fantasy
The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shrec
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Gran Turismo (2023)
★ 7.1 IMDb   MC 48   PG-13 · 2h 14m · Adventure · Drama · Action
The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.

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