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Some fans prefer a little adrenaline to go with their popcorn.
Action may be perfect for the big screen, but it hits just as hard and fast from the couch, too — and with today’s span of streaming services, every epic battle, car chase, fight scene and close call is available.
Not sure which thrill to seek? Perhaps a superhero face-off like Deadpool & Wolverine or a stunt-heavy romp like The Fall Guy will satisfy your craving for adventure.
Whether on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+ or elsewhere, these pulse-pounding action movies are ready to kick things into high gear.
Here are all of the best action movies to stream right now.
Heads of State
Prime Video
U.S. President Will Derringer (John Cena) and British Prime Minister Sam Clarke (Idris Elba) can’t stand each other, and their bitter rivalry has all but tanked international diplomacy. However, when Air Force One gets attacked behind enemy lines, the two must join forces to take down a ruthless threat before it brings down the entire free world.
Watch Heads of State on Amazon Prime Video
Deep Cover
Peter Mountain
Kat Boyles (Bryce Dallas Howard) keeps an ordinary routine as an improv comedy teacher, until a detective recruits her for an undercover program targeting London’s most-wanted criminals. With two of her best students — Marlon (Orlando Bloom) and Hugh (Nick Mohammed) — in tow, Kat learns that no amount of quick-thinking stage skills could prepare them for the real-life scenarios they’re about to face.
Watch Deep Cover on Amazon Prime Video
Novocaine
Marcos Cruz/Paramount
Brutal fight scenes are always a rush, but when the person taking the hits doesn’t even flinch? That’s next-level badass. Such is life for Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), a mild-mannered bank employee with a rare condition that makes him completely numb to pain. When his dream woman (Amber Midthunder) gets abducted amid a robbery, Nathan turns his zero-pain threshold into a secret weapon, taking down a bunch of criminals to get her back.
The Order
Vertical Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection
A string of violent bank heists and carjackings in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1980s leads FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) to an unexpected discovery: A white supremacist group plotting an insurrection. Inspired by true events, The Order follows Terry and his team as they work to dismantle the organization, culminating in one of the most explosive domestic standoffs in U.S. history.
G20
Ilze Kitshoff/Prime Video
Viola Davis is Madame President in Patricia Riggens’ 2025 action thriller. When President Danielle Sutton gathers 20 of the world’s most influential figures for the G20 summit, a group of terrorists seizes the event, determined to conquer global financial markets. Now, she must rely on her tactical brilliance and military combat training to protect her family, the gathered officials and the course of history.
Watch G20 on Amazon Prime Video
The Gorge
Apple TV+
In this 2025 sci-fi action flick, two highly-trained snipers (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are sent on a special assignment: Vanish off the grid for the next 365 days and guard opposite sides of a deep gorge containing an unspeakable evil. Forbidden from any outside contact, the two operatives form a clandestine bond — but as the threat within emerges, they join forces to keep it sealed before all hell breaks loose.
Gladiator II
Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Nearly 25 years after Ridley Scott’s swords-and-sandals epic comes the 2024 sequel Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal as Lucius Verus Aurelius, son of the late Maximus (Russell Crowe’s character in the first film). With Rome’s descent under tyrannical rule, Lucius must step into the gladiatorial ring and fight like his father before him for survival. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, the film also features Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn and more.
Watch Gladiator II on Paramount+
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Daniel Smith
Guy Ritchie’s 2024 action comedy takes a wildly fictionalized swing at Operation Postmaster, the historical British mission that helped turn the tide of World War II. To counteract Hitler’s fleet of German U-boats, Winston Churchill’s special operations executive, Gus March-Phillips (Henry Cavill), assembles a ragtag team of rogues and rebels — relying on bizarre tactics to use against the Nazis.
Watch The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare on Starz
Deadpool & Wolverine
Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/Marvel
Dethroning 2019’s Joker as the highest-grossing rated-R film of all time, the third installment of the Deadpool franchise — and the first to merge the X-Men universe with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) — sees Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth teaming up with a variant of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. As Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) from the Time Variance Authority threatens to erase Deadpool’s multiverse timeline, the unlikely duo battle this existential threat while developing an unstoppable friendship.
Watch Deadpool & Wolverine on Disney+
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Frank Masi
The bad boys are back! Nearly 30 years after the 1995 original movie, Miami detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are diving into yet another do-or-die mission — this time to vindicate their late captain after he’s wrongly implicated in a drug conspiracy.
Watch Bad Boys: Ride or Die on Netflix
Twisters
Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
As social media influencer Tyler Owens (Glen Powell) “wrangles” whirlwinds for online clout, storm chaser Javi (Anthony Ramos) convinces his wary friend Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) to join him in Oklahoma to test new technology on tornadoes. While the three of them ultimately cross paths and join forces, their styles of cyclone chasing — and Kate’s traumatic past — create plenty of tension as the storm season escalates and various systems cross over the area.
Watch Twisters on Amazon Prime Video
The Shadow Strays
Courtesy of Netflix
In this Indonesian action thriller, when an assassin prodigy called 13 (Aurora Ribero) surprisingly forms a bond with a young boy (Ali Fikry) at a safe house, the shocking news of his kidnapping by a merciless gang ignites her fierce protective instincts. Now, the hit woman will go to great lengths to bring the child back to safety, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake.
Watch The Shadow Strays on Netflix
Rebel Ridge
Allyson Riggs/Netflix
When former Marine Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) arrives in Shelby Springs to post bail for his cousin, he is rammed and arrested by two corrupt police officers (David Denman and Emory Cohen) who wrongfully seize his legitimate $36,000 through civil forfeiture. Ready to reclaim what’s his and serve up some hard-hitting justice, Terry goes head-to-head against the town’s police force and their chief (Don Johnson).
The Fall Guy
Eric Laciste/Universal Pictures
Action movies wouldn’t exist without stunt performers, so it’s about time they got their flowers. Directed by David Leitch, The Fall Guy centers on Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling), a Hollywood stuntman who’s taken a year off after an almost-fatal accident. When he arrives on the set of his ex-girlfriend’s (Emily Blunt) directorial debut, he learns that the actor he’s doubling — action star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) — has vanished. To salvage the film’s production and save Tom, Colt gets caught in a high-octane conspiracy that is far more risky than any stunt.
Watch The Fall Guy on Amazon Prime Video
Civil War
Murray Close
In this A24 dystopian thriller, America is mired in a brutal civil war between a dictatorial federal government and secessionist factions. As a crew of war journalists journeys from N.Y.C. to Washington, D.C., to interview the embattled third-term president (Nick Offerman) before insurgents storm the capital, they encounter a rising tide of violence that interferes with their work.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
20th Century Studios
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes — the latest chapter in the Planet of the Apes, Hollywood’s longest-running sci-fi film series — takes place three centuries after Caesar’s rule, where apes have now formed multiple clans and humans have reverted to a primitive state. However, when a young chimpanzee named Noa (Owen Teague) crosses paths with an intelligent woman (Freya Allan), they both strive to build a new future where apes and humans can live in harmony.
Watch Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on Hulu
Monkey Man
Universal Pictures
In this 2024 action thriller, Kid (Dev Patel, also making his feature directorial debut) toils his nights away by taking on jobs no one else wants, one of which involves him stepping into the ring of an underground fight club — wearing a monkey mask — and getting beaten up by prized fighters for money. After years of pent-up anger, Kid finally finds his way into the city’s elite and seeks revenge against those responsible for his mother’s murder.
Watch Monkey Man on Amazon Prime Video
Dune: Part Two
Warner Bros.
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem and more return for the highly anticipated second part of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel adaptation. Picking up after the events of 2021’s Dune, Paul Atreides (Chalamet) makes it his mission to exact revenge on those who’ve destroyed his family. Elevating the star-studded cast are Austin Butler, Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh.
Watch Dune: Part Two on HBO Max
The Beekeeper
MGM
In the 2024 thriller, Jason Statham unleashes his action chops as Adam Clay, a lethal assassin with a dark past tied to the “Beekeeper” operative. When his landlord dies by suicide after falling victim to a phishing scam, Mr. Clay embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance. Joining Statham are stars Josh Hutcherson, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Minnie Driver, Bobby Naderi, Phylicia Rashad and Jeremy Irons.
Watch The Beekeeper on Amazon Prime Video
Road House
Laura Radford/Prime Video
In Doug Liman’s 2024 reimagining of the 1989 classic starring Patrick Swayze, Jake Gyllenhaal plays the former UFC fighter–turned–bar bouncer Dalton, who keeps Florida’s notorious Double Deuce roadhouse a thriving hot spot by dealing with instigators head-on (sometimes literally!).
Road House features an all-star ensemble, including Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Lukas Gage, Post Malone and others, plus MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his first-ever movie role.
Watch Road House on Amazon Prime Video
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Paramount Pictures/Skydance
In the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series — and one of the highest-grossing blockbusters of 2023 — elite field agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF squad go head-to-head with “the Entity,” a thunderous rogue AI with the potential for world destruction. Oscar-nominated for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects, Dead Reckoning features a stacked ensemble cast, including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga and Henry Czerny.
Watch Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One on Paramount+
Havoc
Netflix
From the director of 2011’s The Raid: Redemption comes a gritty crime thriller starring Tom Hardy as a disillusioned detective who plunges into the criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son after a drug deal gone wrong. The cast also includes Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker and more.
John Wick: Chapter 4
Lionsgate
In the fourth installment of the John Wick saga, the legendary hitman extraordinaire (Keanu Reeves) remains resolute in his mission for revenge against the High Table. In his pursuit of freedom, he must face a new enemy (Bill Skarsgård) backed by powerful alliances worldwide.
Watch John Wick: Chapter 4 on Peacock
Die Hard
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Whether or not you believe Die Hard is a Christmas movie, the 1988 thriller is easily one of the best action movies of all time. Bruce Willis’ introductory jaunt as John McClane has all the makings of a classic: a working-class hero, hard-to-get love interest (Bonnie Bedelia), dangerously charismatic villain (Alan Rickman), earnest sidekicks Alan (Reginald VelJohnson) and Argyle (De’voreaux White) and some of the best catchphrases in the game. McClane even saves the day while barefoot.
Watch Die Hard on Amazon Prime Video
Avatar: The Way of Water
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Courtesy Everett
Dive into the phantasmagorical depths of James Cameron’s Avatar universe with this 2022 sequel. Following a decade after the first film’s events, Way of Water sees the Sully family fleeing their home to reside with the oceanic Metkayina clan, where they defend themselves and their hosts against brutal aggressors through a flood of action-packed battles.
Watch Avatar: The Way of Water on Disney+
Top Gun: Maverick
Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett
After graduating from the TOPGUN Naval aviation program in the 1986 classic, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise) is invited back as an instructor for a new generation of fliers — including Teller’s Bradley (a.k.a. “Rooster”) and Powell’s Jake (a.k.a. “Hangman”) — in the 2022 sequel.
Earning more than $1 billion at the global box office, Top Gun: Maverick is not only a triumphant follow-up to its iconic predecessor but is also a “love letter to aviation,” as it impressively cranked up the action without VFX and filmed stunts with real U.S. Navy pilots flying top-quality fighter jets.
