Popular Action Movies on Kanopy - Page 33

Rust Creek

2019

Rust Creek

2019
6.3
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
Assault on Precinct 13

1976

Assault on Precinct 13

1976
7.3
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
'71

2014

'71

2014
6.8
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Pusher

1996

Pusher

1996
7
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
Legionnaire

1998

Legionnaire

1998
5.8
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
In the Wake of the Bounty

1933

In the Wake of the Bounty

1933
4.8
The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Becky

2020

Becky

2020
6.3
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
Backroads

1977

Backroads

1977
5.9
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
Capricorn One

1977

Capricorn One

1977
6.8
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Badges of Fury

2013

Badges of Fury

2013
5.3
When a series of eerie murders erupts across Hong Kong, grizzled veteran Huang and his reckless younger partner Wang, are assigned to track down the killer.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

1984

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

1984
6.6
A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
Get the Gringo

2012

Get the Gringo

2012
6.6
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Man of Tai Chi

2013

Man of Tai Chi

2013
6.1
In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.
Earthy Encounters

2018

Earthy Encounters

2018
4.2
15-year-old Kyle believes he can save his dying older brother with a plant he's found at the back of a garden centre. Problem is, there's a shadowy government agency out to destroy it first.
Law of Tehran

2019

Law of Tehran

2019
7.2
Samad is nobody’s fool. The narcotics officer has seen his share of a drug dealer’s lies and games, and his patience has come to run thin. While searching for the infamous drug baron Nasser Khakzad, he and his colleague Hamid scour the streets of Tehran, turning an overcrowded prison on its head. With his rough and dubious approach, Samad finally manages to find the criminal’s whereabouts – but things do not quite go according to plan...
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

1994

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

1994
7.1
Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the planet for years. He finds it in Ryu, a young wanderer who never stays in one place long enough for Bison to find him. He does, however, get a fix on Ken Masters, an American martial arts champion who studied with Ryu as a child under the same master. Meanwhile, Major Guile of the United States Army is forced to team up with Chun Li from China in hopes of apprehending Bison and putting a stop his international ring of crime.
Secrets of Deception

2017

Secrets of Deception

2017
5.7
After a man discovers his young wife is cheating on him with a neighborhood boy, he goes down a dangerous path of revenge & destruction.
Let the Corpses Tan

2017

Let the Corpses Tan

2017
6.2
With a heavy haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion, the grizzled criminal mastermind, Rhino, and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, head to a ramshackle retreat somewhere in the Mediterranean to lay low on a scorching day of July. However, the unexpected and rather unwelcome arrival of the bohemian writer, Bernier, his muse, Luce, along with a pair of no-joke gendarmes further complicates things, as the frail allegiances will soon be put to the test.
The Beloved Rogue

1927

The Beloved Rogue

1927
6.6
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Santo vs. Infernal Men

1961

Santo vs. Infernal Men

1961
3.8
Agent Joaquin recalls his latest mission while lying wounded in an ambulance: Joaquin has infiltrated into a band of smugglers. When the villains learn the truth about him, they kidnap Jouqin's fiancee. Santo comes to her rescue and fights the band.