
Epic Action movies
Big-scale action movies with city-to-world stakes, massive set pieces, and nonstop spectacle.

211. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Adventure Action Crime Mystery Epic Action2011•2h 9min
United States
Director: Guy Ritchie
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There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
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212. Immortals
Fantasy Action Drama Mythological Fantasy Epic Action2011•1h 50min
United States
Director: Tarsem Singh
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Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
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213. In Time
Action Thriller Science Fiction Dystopian Sci-Fi Epic Action2011•1h 49min
United States
Director: Andrew Niccol
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In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".
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214. The Three Musketeers
Adventure Action Thriller Adventure Epic Epic Action2011•1h 50min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
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The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
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215. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Thriller Action Drama Science Fiction Bio-Genetic Sci-Fi2011•1h 45min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Rupert Wyatt
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A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.
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After his capture for attempted assassination of the Raikage, leader of Kumogakure, as well as killing Jōnin from Kirigakure and Iwagakure, Naruto is imprisoned in Hōzukijou: A criminal containment facility known as the Blood Prison. Mui, the castle master, uses the ultimate imprisonment technique to steal power from the prisoners, which is when Naruto notices his life has been targeted. Thus begins the battle to uncover the truth behind the mysterious murders and prove Naruto's innocence.
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217. Cowboys & Aliens
Action Science Fiction Thriller Western Epic Action2011•1h 59min
India, United States
Director: Jon Favreau
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A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
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218. Priest
Action Fantasy Horror Epic Action Dark Fantasy2011•1h 27min
United States
Director: Scott Stewart
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In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
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219. Ironclad
Romance Adventure Action History Adventure Epic2011•2h 1min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Jonathan English
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In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
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220. Sanctum
Action Thriller Survival Thriller Epic Action2011•1h 48min
United States, Australia
Director: Alister Grierson
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Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out.
