Action has been part of cinema ever since the days of The Great Train Robbery more than a century ago. But somewhere along the way filmmakers started realizing that they didn’t necessarily have to couch their car chases, fight scenes, gun battles, and explosions within the confines of another genre.

The action didn’t need to be part of a Western or a swashbuckling historical adventure or a sci-fi extravaganza; the action could actually be the point. So by the late 20th century, a whole new genre was booming in Hollywood.

List of the Movies

1. The Wages of Fear (1953)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. Goldfinger (1964)
4. Shaft (1971)
5. Enter the Dragon (1973)
6. The Driver (1978)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
8. First Blood (1982)
9. RoboCop (1987)
10. Die Hard (1988)
11. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
12. Point Break (1991)
13. Hard Boiled (1992)
14. The Fugitive (1993)
15. Léon: The Professional (1994)
16. Speed (1994)
17. Drunken Master II (1994)
18. The Matrix (1999)
19. Battle Royale (2000)
20. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
21. Bad Boys II (2003)
22. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
23. Kill Bill: Vols. 1 and 2 (2003-2004)
24. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
25. The Raid (2011)
26. Fast Five (2011)
27. John Wick (2014)
28. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
29. The Villainess (2017)
30. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)