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1. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Votes: 1,196,675 | Gross: $70.10M
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
R | 137 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Votes: 807,327 | Gross: $66.21M
4. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor
Votes: 219,191 | Gross: $131.14M
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Five sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies.
Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote
Votes: 60,534 | Gross: $10.91M
6. Elektra (2005)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Kirsten Zien
Votes: 98,039 | Gross: $24.41M
7. DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
The world's best fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. There, four female rival fighters will have to work together to uncover the secret that the organizer of the tournament is trying to hide.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Jaime Pressly, Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Holly Valance
Votes: 46,353 | Gross: $0.48M
8. The Next Karate Kid (1994)
PG | 107 min | Action, Drama, Family
Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing: a troubled adolescent girl.
Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Pat Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers
Votes: 33,857 | Gross: $8.91M
9. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Adventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 145,010 | Gross: $65.66M
10. Point of No Return (1993)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 30,194 | Gross: $30.04M
11. China O'Brien (1990)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police woman, expert and instructor in martial arts, leaves the city to stay with her dad, sheriff in a town with peace and quiet - or so she thinks. She gets plenty opportunities to show her martial arts skills.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke, Doug Wright
Votes: 1,459
12. Undefeatable (1993)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Kristi Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) avenges her sister's death at the hands of a crazed martial arts rapist.
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Don Niam, John Miller, Donna Jason
Votes: 2,585
13. Scorched Earth (2018)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A bounty hunter named Attica Gage tracks down criminals in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gina Carano, Ryan Robbins, John Hannah, Dean Jagger
Votes: 4,522
14. Sworn to Justice (1996)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After attackers kill her sister and nephew, a female psychologist becomes a defense witness by day and an avenger by night.
Director: Paul Maslak | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Tony Lo Bianco, Kurt McKinney, Brad Dourif
Votes: 971
15. Enhanced (II) (2019)
99 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A young woman with enhanced abilities finds herself hunted down by a sinister government organization. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances.
Director: James Mark | Stars: George Tchortov, Alanna Bale, Adrian Holmes, Chris Mark
Votes: 1,021
16. No Contest (1995)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Andrew Dice Clay takes over a hotel during a beauty pageant taking several pageant contestants hostage since one of them is a rich senator's daughter.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Shannon Tweed, Robert Davi, Andrew Dice Clay, Roddy Piper
Votes: 984
17. The Violence Action (2022)
111 min | Action, Drama
A young girl leads a double life as an assassin for hire.
Director: Tôichirô Rutô | Stars: Kanna Hashimoto, Yôsuke Sugino, Fumika Baba, Win Morisaki
Votes: 877
18. Satan Returns (1996)
95 min | Action, Horror
Female police psychologist is targeted by a supernatural devil-worshiping serial killer who wants to prove to her that she's the Antichrist. A tough cop, his inept womanizing comic relief partner and a reverend try to stop him.
Director: Wai-Lun Lam | Stars: Chingmy Yau, Francis Ng, Donnie Yen, Dayo Wong
Votes: 296
19. Fire Dragon (1994)
90 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
When Red Dragon is send out to retrieve a letter incriminating her master, as he plots to overthrow the emperor, she meets swordsman Yuen, who got to the letter before her. Red Dragon ... See full synopsis »
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Siu Chung Mok, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng, Pal Sinn
Votes: 253
20. Tong chuang er meng (1994)
Action, Crime, Horror
In Hong Kong, three drug dealers attack and rape a loving lesbian couple, murdering one of the girls. Three years later, the other girl runs into one of the attackers and decides to take revenge.
Director: Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Sophia Yi, Pauline Yeung, Kim Mak Lo, Peter Chen Lau
Votes: 37
21. Dead or Alive (1996 Video Game)
T | Action
The first Dead or Alive game in the series.
Director: Tomonobu Itagaki | Stars: Bin Shimada, Hideyuki Hori, Toshio Furukawa, Hisao Egawa
Votes: 239