Description: Action movies with strong female lead characters.
Creator: Greer
Posted: 3 years ago
|
|
Favorite
33 favorites
14891 views
|
|
info
|
Movie:
Guns, Girls and Gambling
( 2013 )
5 Elvis impersonators stay long after the contest playing poker, when a valuable mask is stolen from the Indian casino. Killers, incl. a sexy, blonde assassin, hunt down the Elvises to get the mask.
|
info
|
Movie:
Evil Woman
( 2013 )
Rosario is a paid assassin who kills men who mistreat or abuse women. When the police capture her, it's the end of the myth. But Maria, a hysteric invalid, saves Rosario in exchange for a different job.
|
info
|
Movie:
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
( 2013 )
Hansel & Gretel are bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
( 2012 )
A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.
|
info
|
Movie:
Kill 'em All
( 2012 )
Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they survive this, they will have to confront Snakehead: the lethal, deranged top dog who will stop at nothing to kill 'em all!
|
info
|
Movie:
Skyfall
( 2012 )
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
|
info
|
Movie:
Girl Vs. Monster
( 2012 )
A teen girl goes on a mission to recapture a dangerous monster that she accidentally released before it can do harm to her parents.
|
info
|
Movie:
Dredd
( 2012 )
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
|
info
|
Movie:
Naked Soldier
( 2012 )
A gorgeous lethal killer, brainwashed by the villain, makes a startling discovery in a mission to eliminate a person she can in no way imagine.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Expendables 2
( 2012 )
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
|
info
|
Movie:
Assassin's Bullet
( 2012 )
Field Agent Robert Diggs walked away from his career in the FBI and accepted the position of Cultural Attaché in Sofia, Bulgaria for one reason: to escape the memories of his wife's death for which he blames himself. However, when an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list, the FBI and CIA request he take on the case, and with the U.S. Ambassador's persuasion,
|
info
|
Movie:
Prometheus
( 2012 )
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
|
info
|
Movie:
Snow White and the Huntsman
( 2012 )
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Hunger Games
( 2012 )
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
|
info
|
Movie:
BloodRayne: The Third Reich
( 2012 )
Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.
|
info
|
Movie:
Underworld: Awakening
( 2012 )
When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrior Selene leads the battle against humankind.
|
info
|
Movie:
Haywire
( 2012 )
A black ops super soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and set up during a mission.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
( 2011 )
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
|
info
|
Movie:
Contract Killers
( 2011 )
A CIA assassin attempts to break out of the contract killing business to try to lead a normal life.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Debt
( 2011 )
In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
|
info
|
Movie:
Conan the Barbarian
( 2011 )
A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy.
|
info
|
Movie:
Tactical Force
( 2011 )
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
|
info
|
Movie:
Colombiana
( 2011 )
A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
|
info
|
Movie:
Your Highness
( 2011 )
When Prince Fabious's bride is kidnapped, he goes on a quest to rescue her... accompanied by his lazy useless brother Thadeous.
|
info
|
Movie:
Hanna
( 2011 )
A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sucker Punch
( 2011 )
A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.
|
info
|
Movie:
Battle Los Angeles
( 2011 )
A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Blood Bond
( 2011 )
A world-renowned spiritual leader arrives in the Asian nation of Purma to give a teaching to the faithful. Accompanying him is a retinue of monks and attendants, including his personal bodyguard, Deva, a beautiful Eurasian girl with extraordinary physical prowess. As soon as Bagwun and his party reach their hotel, they are attacked by assassins from a rebel terrorist group. Wounded, Bagwun needs to undergo a life-saving operation within twelve hours. However, his blood type is so rare that only a few donors can be found who can reach the capital in time to help. Rebel leader Lompoc obtains the same information, and has his agents kill off the donors one-by-one. Deva gets information about a possible 7th donor in a remote village in the North, and she decides to brave the dangerous journey alone into the guerrilla-held badlands. There, she finds the last possible donor whose blood can save Bagwun: a drunken, embittered former Special Forces operative named John Tremayne.
|
info
|
Movie:
RED
( 2010 )
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops Agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
|
info
|
Movie:
Resident Evil: Afterlife
( 2010 )
While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
|
info
|
Movie:
Salt
( 2010 )
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
|
info
|
Movie:
Winter's Bone
( 2010 )
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Last Airbender
( 2010 )
Follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
|
info
|
Movie:
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
( 2010 )
A young fugitive Prince and Princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.
|
info
|
Movie:
Iron Man 2
( 2010 )
With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father's legacy.
|
info
|
Movie:
Centurion
( 2010 )
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.
|
info
|
Movie:
Kick-Ass
( 2010 )
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
( 2010 )
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Bounty Hunter
( 2010 )
Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly. He thinks all that's ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other - until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough - staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher.
|
info
|
Movie:
Alice in Wonderland
( 2010 )
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Horde
( 2010 )
An end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Wolfman
( 2010 )
Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.
|
info
|
Movie:
Stella's War
( 2010 )
When terrorists acquire a new deadly virus that threatens mankind, a beautiful young CIA agent - Stella - is all that stands in their way. What follows is a true war - secret meetings, chases, shootings and death on the streets of Varna, Bulgaria, the ruins of Athens, the rocky shores of the Azure Coast, in the German country, the Sahara Desert, and under the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
|
info
|
Movie:
Fable: Teeth of Beasts
( 2010 )
Lilith Noir is a hardboiled freelance enforcer for the shadow government that keeps watch over the city of Fable, a mythical realm that exists just beneath the surface of our awareness. When a fast talking private detective shows up on her doorstep, Lilith is faced with the case of a lifetime. A new drug has hit the streets of Fable, black market Ouija boards are everywhere, victims of bizarre murders are choking the city morgue, and the prime suspect is an ancient demon masquerading as an urban vagrant. Witchcraft. Guns. The Occult. Never a dull day in the twilight city.
|
info
|
Movie:
Avatar
( 2009 )
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Assassin Next Door
( 2009 )
In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia. All she wants is to reunite with her little daughter that she left back home in Ukraine. Eleanor is a grocery store cashier and a battered wife. She dreams of winning the lottery and running away from her abusive husband. Galia and Eleanor don't know each other, but as neighbors they share two things: an adjoining wall and a strong need to plan their escape. As Galia disobeys her latest contract, a woman target, and Eleanor discovers that she's pregnant, the two women decide to take action against their oppressors in a fight for survival and freedom.
|
info
|
Movie:
Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
( 2009 )
The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father.
|
info
|
Movie:
Angel of Death
( 2009 )
A career assassin becomes haunted by one of her victims following a near fatal injury to her brain. Becoming a rogue assassin settling the score with her former mob employers, chaos and power struggles ensue.
|
info
|
Movie:
Blood: The Last Vampire
( 2009 )
A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.
|
info
|
Movie:
Watchmen
( 2009 )
In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.
|
info
|
Movie:
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
( 2009 )
When a child, Chun-Li sees her father being captured by wealthy gangster Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for justice and bring down the criminal organization Shadaloo which is led by Bison.
|
info
|
Movie:
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
( 2009 )
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
|
info
|
Movie:
Max Payne
( 2008 )
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective and an assassin, who will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
|
info
|
Movie:
Tokyo Gore Police
( 2008 )
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
|
info
|
Movie:
Wanted
( 2008 )
A frustrated office worker discovers that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
|
info
|
Movie:
Get Smart
( 2008 )
Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, is tasked with preventing a terrorist attack from rival spy agency KAOS.
|
info
|
Movie:
Doomsday
( 2008 )
A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race.
|
info
|
Movie:
Left for Dead
( 2008 )
A desperate criminal and a merciless posse become trapped in a remote Mexican ghost town by a vengeful demon.
|
info
|
Movie:
Chocolate
( 2008 )
An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Gene Generation
( 2007 )
Michelle, an assassin to a new breed of killers (DNA Hackers), finds she has greater obstacles in her life... Family.
|
info
|
Movie:
Resident Evil: Extinction
( 2007 )
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Brave One
( 2007 )
Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.
|
info
|
Movie:
Rise: Blood Hunter
( 2007 )
A reporter wakes up in a morgue and finds herself a member of the undead, before vowing revenge against the sect which put her there.
|
info
|
Movie:
Live Free or Die Hard
( 2007 )
John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Condemned
( 2007 )
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
|
info
|
Movie:
Grindhouse
( 2007 )
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the 60s and 70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Last Sentinel
( 2007 )
No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect mankind - until the drone police became the perfect enemy. Tallis, a cyber-enhanced soldier, rescues a rebel beauty and teach her to fight and think like a machine.
|
info
|
Movie:
Yo-Yo Girl Cop
( 2006 )
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
|
info
|
Movie:
DOA: Dead or Alive
( 2006 )
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.
|
info
|
Movie:
Silent Hill
( 2006 )
A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.
|
info
|
Movie:
V for Vendetta
( 2006 )
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
|
info
|
Movie:
Warrior Queen Boudica
( 2006 )
When the cowardly bureaucrat Catus Decianus breaks a peace treaty with the Iceni by brutalizing and humiliating their queen Boudica and her daughters the Iceian and allies join the queen in a campaign of revenge against the Romans. They plunder Roman cities killing all the inhabitants and burning the cities to the ground until a vastly outnumbered Roman legion faces Boudica's furious hoard.
|
info
|
Movie:
Ultraviolet
( 2006 )
A beautiful hæmophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.
|
info
|
Movie:
Underworld: Evolution
( 2006 )
Picking up directly from the previous movie, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them.
|
info
|
Movie:
Bandidas
( 2006 )
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, María, the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, María and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options?
|
info
|
Movie:
BloodRayne
( 2006 )
In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.
|
info
|
Movie:
Painkiller Jane
( 2005 )
Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eluding the military.
|
info
|
Movie:
Æon Flux
( 2005 )
Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
|
info
|
Movie:
Domino
( 2005 )
A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
|
info
|
Movie:
Serenity
( 2005 )
The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their members who is telepathic.
|
info
|
Movie:
Lady Vengeance
( 2005 )
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.
|
info
|
Movie:
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
( 2005 )
A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sin City
( 2005 )
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
|
info
|
|
info
|
Movie:
Azumi 2: Death or Love
( 2005 )
Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
|
info
|
Movie:
Million Dollar Baby
( 2005 )
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
|
info
|
Movie:
Elektra
( 2005 )
In the ultimate battle between good and evil stands a warrior who makes the choice that tips the balance. A strong, mysterious and a deadly sexy action heroine - a lethal synthesis of grace and power. Not long after recovering from seemingly mortal wounds, Elektra has severed all ties with the world, living only for her next assignment. But in an unexpected turn of events, she is forced to make a decision that can take her life in a new direction - or destroy her. Key players in Elektra's journey are Stick, a blind martial arts master responsible for Elektra's "resurrection," and Mark Miller and Abby Miller, a father and daughter on the run from The Hand, a powerful syndicate whose members practice the dark version of the martial art Kimagure.
|
info
|
Movie:
Shira: The Vampire Samurai
( 2005 )
A half-human, half-vampire female samurai must stop an evil vampire warlord from populating the world with a new breed of "daywalking" vampires.
|
info
|
Movie:
Blade: Trinity
( 2004 )
Blade finds himself alone surrounded by enemies, fighting an up hill battle with the vampire nation and now humans. He joins forces with a group of vampire hunters who call themselves the Nightstalkers. The vampire nation awakens the king of vampires Dracula from his slumber with intentions of using his primitive blood to become day-walkers. On the other side is Blade and his team manifesting a virus that could wipe out the vampire race once and for all. In the end the two sides will collide and only one will come out victorious, a battle between the ultimate vampire who never knew defeat, facing off against the greatest vampire slayer.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sci-Fighter
( 2004 )
A well-meaning genius creates a virtual reality game that leaves his grandson trapped within when a virus invades. The boy's father (Don Wilson) enters the virtual fighting game in order to combat the virus and save his son before they're both trapped forever.
|
info
|
Movie:
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
( 2004 )
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
|
info
|
Movie:
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
( 2004 )
Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
|
info
|
Movie:
Catwoman
( 2004 )
A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.
|
info
|
Movie:
House of Flying Daggers
( 2004 )
A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
|
info
|
Movie:
King Arthur
( 2004 )
A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
|
info
|
Movie:
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
( 2004 )
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
|
info
|
Movie:
My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
( 2004 )
When her surrogate father who owns the casino she works in gets murdered, Modesty Blaise takes on those that killed him and are now at the casino to rob it. It turns out she is more than just a modest worker.
|
info
|
Movie:
Silver Hawk
( 2004 )
Lulu Wong lives a double life - part urban social butterfly, part vigilante superhero. Armed with ancient fighting techniques and high tech hardware, Lulu is a beautiful masked millionaire battling to defeat a greedy tyrant.
|
info
|
Movie:
The Matrix Revolutions
( 2003 )
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
|
info
|
Movie:
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
( 2003 )
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
|
|
yellow_rose1 : Contains spoilers. Click to show. Yeah she was a strange lady for sure. She was probably raised by hippies, she talks like o...