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My Action Canon

100 films that break ground - or are just fucking fun - when capturing kinetics in service to fictional violence; whether they're fast paced, gorgeously rendered, insanely choreographed and performed, funny, gloriously weird, or any/all of the above.

A list of the obvious, the unexpected, and the underseen. My cinema of brutality in motion.

Sorted by release date.

Block or Report
  • Sherlock, Jr.
  • Seven Samurai
  • Harakiri
  • Come Drink with Me
  • Samurai Rebellion
  • Dragon Inn
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • The French Connection
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity
  • Coffy
  • Lady Snowblood
  • The Fate of Lee Khan
  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
  • Drunken Master
  • The Warriors
  • Fearless Hyena
  • Mad Max
  • Raining in the Mountain
  • Dirty Ho
  • The Young Master
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
  • Escape from New York
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Mad Max 2
  • Conan the Barbarian
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • The Miracle Fighters
  • First Blood
  • 48 Hrs.
  • Duel to the Death
  • Project A
  • The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Wheels on Meals
  • The Terminator
  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
  • Commando
  • Police Story
  • Future Hunters
  • Royal Warriors
  • Highlander
  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • Aliens
  • Peking Opera Blues
  • The Seventh Curse
  • Child of Peach
  • Magnificent Warriors
  • Predator
  • Surf Nazis Must Die
  • Eastern Condors
  • RoboCop
  • Project A: Part II
  • Dragons Forever
  • Yellow River Fighter
  • Die Hard
  • Police Story 2
  • They Live
  • Pedicab Driver
  • Road House
  • The Killer
  • In the Line of Duty 4
  • Swordsman
  • Total Recall
  • Bullet in the Head
  • The Rocketeer
  • Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
  • Hard Boiled
  • Police Story 3: Super Cop
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • The Cat
  • The Heroic Trio
  • Iron Monkey
  • The Legend of Drunken Master
  • Ashes of Time
  • Tokyo Fist
  • The Blade
  • Police Story 4: First Strike
  • Mr. Nice Guy
  • The Fifth Element
  • Starship Troopers
  • A Hero Never Dies
  • The Matrix
  • In China They Eat Dogs
  • Dead or Alive
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Battle Royale
  • Shaolin Soccer
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • The Great Yokai War
  • Apocalypto
  • Death Proof
  • Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
  • The Raid
  • Dredd
  • The Raid 2
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Bad Black