90's Action Films, a list by Womblechutney

8.6

/1269306/

84

/30730/

81

/13839/

4.3

/885501/

91

/154/

95

/25650/

75

/22/

3.5

age 15+

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

85

7.8

/342434/

77

/9484/

75

/4613/

3.9

/272792/

96

/84/

89

/6872/

87

/33/

4.0

age 13+

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

83

8.3

/788248/

81

/17507/

79

/7992/

4.3

/979995/

84

/154/

94

/12182/

76

/23/

3.5

age 16+

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

82

8.7

/2219155/

87

/72958/

82

/27205/

4.2

/2521036/

83

/209/

85

/1307885/

73

/36/

3.0

age 15+

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

81

8.2

/1160184/

82

/39632/

79

/17387/

4.1

/1967743/

91

/204/

91

/38382/

68

/21/

3.0

age 11+

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

80

7.3

/418569/

74

/12980/

71

/6618/

3.7

/400290/

95

/78/

77

/16114/

78

/17/

4.0

age 15+

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

79

7.9

/258303/

78

/5963/

75

/2945/

4.0

/257075/

93

/60/

93

/9525/

59

/19/

3.0

age 17+

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

79

8.3

/1151107/

82

/22432/

79

/10792/

3.9

/460497/

76

/131/

85

/1198232/

68

/20/

3.5

age 17+

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

79

7.6

/136872/

78

/6166/

72

/1884/

3.7

/55286/

93

/67/

89

/4040/

70

/18/

3.5

age 12+

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

79

7.5

/228526/

76

/8490/

75

/4382/

3.8

/300699/

88

/74/

90

/17211/

72

/15/

3.5

age 17+

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.

78

7.1

/186491/

70

/4523/

66

/2212/

3.5

/74907/

94

/131/

77

/3831/

82

/34/

4.0

age 16+

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

78

7.6

/203865/

76

/5476/

74

/3310/

3.7

/169082/

88

/126/

88

/7338/

76

/18/

3.0

age 17+

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

78

7.5

/228610/

79

/9259/

73

/3511/

3.8

/139218/

88

/76/

88

/4615/

58

/17/

3.5

age 13+

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

77

7.2

/121769/

72

/3250/

69

/1728/

3.5

/64462/

96

/73/

79

/1267/

74

/16/

3.5

age 16+

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.

77

7.4

/134516/

76

/4219/

71

/1918/

3.8

/81340/

89

/55/

84

/1935/

66

/20/

3.5

age 17+

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.

77

7.3

/423107/

73

/11460/

70

/5710/

3.6

/291658/

93

/97/

82

/15957/

82

/26/

3.0

age 17+

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

76

7.3

/656270/

77

/29215/

72

/14479/

3.7

/911084/

91

/92/

80

/21957/

72

/22/

3.0

age 12+

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

76

7.2

/9305/

74

/299/

65

/112/

3.6

/5637/

87

/54/

83

/290/

70

/20/

3.5

age 16+

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

75

6.7

/1345/

66

/29/

68

/14/

3.5

/893/

100

/7/

82

/25/

3.0

The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.

75

7.0

/16253/

72

/639/

67

/246/

3.9

/44497/

87

/31/

78

/253/

67

/25/

3.5

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

75

7.8

/188694/

79

/6538/

75

/2337/

3.9

/200014/

76

/50/

93

/10942/

50

/22/

age 16+

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

75

7.5

/377380/

76

/14476/

73

/6239/

3.8

/320446/

81

/78/

79

/7871/

60

/17/

3.5

age 17+

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality.

74

7.2

/84469/

74

/4126/

70

/1358/

3.6

/44463/

83

/60/

84

/2365/

65

/18/

3.0

age 10+

After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.

74

6.9

/20051/

74

/779/

72

/382/

3.7

/28236/

71

/38/

89

/1639/

62

/24/

3.5

age 16+

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.

74

7.0

/32818/

74

/1158/

72

/432/

3.6

/38191/

81

/32/

90

/1660/

60

/17/

3.0

age 17+

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

74

7.3

/104315/

75

/2782/

69

/988/

3.7

/69495/

82

/72/

86

/4163/

76

/27/

2.5

age 17+

Hitman Martin Blank becomes a moving target after he rebuffs a fellow assassin's invitation to form a union. On the advice of his quirky assistant and neurotic psychiatrist, Martin begrudgingly heads out to Grosse Pointe, Michigan for his ten-year high school reunion, where he soon comes across the woman he jilted on prom night.

74

7.3

/166059/

74

/4786/

71

/2284/

3.6

/72105/

75

/57/

79

/2721/

62

/24/

3.5

age 15+

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

73

7.2

/163944/

72

/6684/

69

/3455/

3.5

/200041/

89

/53/

76

/7065/

65

/13/

age 13+

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.

73

7.3

/221412/

73

/7131/

71

/3839/

3.8

/352251/

68

/82/

79

/5221/

60

/21/

3.5

age 17+

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

73

7.2

/282952/

73

/9027/

69

/4179/

3.6

/188536/

80

/87/

83

/10213/

65

/20/

3.0

age 13+

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.

73

7.4

/376891/

76

/10913/

71

/5020/

3.6

/168290/

68

/74/

85

/11174/

58

/24/

3.5

age 16+

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

72

6.7

/41716/

72

/1425/

66

/568/

3.4

/32505/

81

/37/

80

/1186/

61

/13/

3.5

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

72

7.9

/37198/

81

/920/

81

/1470/

4.0

/22667/

64

/14/

94

/1855/

47

/12/

2.0

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

72

7.0

/68161/

71

/1918/

69

/1034/

3.6

/48405/

83

/58/

69

/908/

74

/19/

3.0

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.

72

7.2

/206018/

75

/5531/

69

/2555/

3.6

/97611/

69

/72/

80

/4349/

67

/23/

3.0

age 15+

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.

72

7.3

/298702/

74

/9307/

70

/4412/

3.6

/182308/

77

/135/

76

/7768/

63

/17/

3.0

age 14+

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

72

7.3

/272590/

75

/9892/

70

/4113/

3.5

/104086/

71

/82/

78

/7375/

67

/22/

3.0

age 16+

When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.

71

6.1

/1853/

65

/27/

60

/26/

3.3

/480/

90

/10/

73

/37/

3.0

When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.

71

6.7

/2468/

64

/40/

59

/26/

3.4

/952/

84

/19/

86

/55/

69

/16/

3.0

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

71

6.9

/115183/

72

/4208/

66

/1614/

3.3

/57547/

81

/47/

74

/1444/

72

/14/

age 13+

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

71

6.8

/112609/

69

/3924/

68

/2095/

3.6

/121916/

77

/75/

69

/1962/

70

/29/

3.0

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

71

7.2

/404519/

74

/15203/

70

/6206/

3.3

/239387/

68

/68/

70

/11059/

67

/17/

3.5

age 16+

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

71

7.6

/427915/

77

/15064/

72

/6476/

3.7

/226679/

60

/80/

83

/13402/

58

/19/

3.0

age 15+

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

76

70

7.7

/8658/

73

/355/

72

/158/

3.5

/1208/

89

/122/

Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.

70

6.9

/48903/

70

/1153/

67

/687/

3.4

/15607/

72

/43/

75

/1080/

55

/19/

3.5

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

70

7.0

/34698/

73

/1288/

69

/779/

3.4

/13038/

75

/24/

79

/1351/

69

/27/

2.5

age 14+

This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.

70

7.5

/197135/

74

/4026/

73

/2768/

3.5

/132670/

61

/61/

87

/6582/

45

/23/

3.0

age 15+

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

70

6.8

/208267/

68

/6161/

65

/4222/

3.4

/158835/

86

/76/

73

/7182/

62

/22/