+ Netflix Top 25 in Action & Adventure +

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Last Update: Wed Apr 15 02:44:25 2009

+ 001- Casino Royale + Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) directs this film adaptation (the 21st of the Bond franchise) of Ian Fleming's first novel. Daniel [...] the Bahamas, Madagascar and other exotic locales. Eva Green stars as Vesper Lynd, and the sublime Judi Dench reprises her role as M.

+ 002- Blood Diamond + Set during Sierra Leone's bloody civil war in 1999, this thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer, a smuggler who sells [...] an adventure that leads them through the world's major diamond centers. DiCaprio and Hounsou earned Oscar nods for their performances.

+ 003- Mr. and Mrs. Smith + Marriage has gotten stale for John and Jane Smith (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), a husband and wife who don't yet know that [...] their next assignment involves them targeting each other! Can they go through with their respective missions, or will love prevail?

+ 004- 3:10 to Yuma + Rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) agrees to transport the captured outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) to the nearest town with a [...] their next move. Director James Mangold's suspense-filled Western is a remake of the 1957 classic starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin.

+ 005- Inside Man + Dispatched to a crime scene where a bank robbery is in progress, police detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) hopes to [...] unstable situation threatens to implode. Spike Lee directs this tense action-drama co-starring Willem Dafoe and Christopher Plummer.

+ 006- Iron Man + After ultrarich inventor and weapons maker Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) escapes from kidnappers using makeshift power armor, [...] Marvel comic, this captivating superhero tale from director Jon Favreau co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard.

+ 007- National Treasure + Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), search for a treasure chest rumored to have [...] Constitution and in a map drawn on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Co-stars Diane Kruger, Sean Bean and Harvey Keitel.

+ 008- The Dark Knight + Batman (Christian Bale) teams with Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to continue [...] good work. The star-studded cast includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Caine and Eric Roberts.

+ 009- Batman Begins + After training with a ninja (Ken Watanabe) in Asia following his parents' brutal murder, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) returns [...] that plague the city. Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Tom Wilkinson and Morgan Freeman co-star. Christopher Nolan directs.

+ 010- Live Free or Die Hard + John McClane (Bruce Willis) is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the [...] boasts plenty of good old-fashioned gunfights, smash-ups and explosions. Note: The Blu-Ray version of this film is rated PG-13.

+ 011- Man on Fire + Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a former federal agent whose outlook on life is anything but sunny. While in Mexico City, he [...] his trampled soul. But when she's kidnapped, Creasy's fury is unstoppable as he desperately tries to save her. Tony Scott directs.

+ 012- Into the Wild + Sean Penn directs this feature based on best-selling author Jon Krakauer's true story of a young man who gives up everything to [...] William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden co-star, along with Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn and Hal Holbrook (in an Oscar-nominated role).

+ 013- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest + Director Gore Verbinksi takes to the high seas to helm the continuing adventures of swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny [...] out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones (Bill Nighy), who threatens the wily skipper with eternal damnation if he welshes.

+ 014- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl + Flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, in an Oscar-nominated performance), steals the show as a charming, carefree 17th [...] Jack decides to help Elizabeth's love, Will (Orlando Bloom), save her. Of course, the mission isn't quite that simple. …

+ 015- National Treasure: Book of Secrets + Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) and Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) -- who found riches and romance at the end of their [...] pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben is obsessed with finding the truth behind President Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

+ 016- Ocean's Thirteen + Director Steven Soderbergh and star George Clooney return to Las Vegas for the further -- and purportedly final -- criminal [...] including Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Al Pacino, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Andy Garcia, Casey Affleck, Elliott Gould and more.

+ 017- Ocean's Twelve + In this sequel to the 2001 hit Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean (George Clooney) reunites with his old flame (Julia Roberts) and the [...] Catherine Zeta-Jones co-stars, and Andy Garcia returns as casino owner Terry Benedict. Steven Soderbergh reprises as director.

+ 018- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull + Hollywood icon Harrison Ford returns to the role of the adventurous archaeologist Indiana Jones nearly 20 years after he last [...] winner Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Shia LaBeouf as Jones's headstrong young sidekick.

+ 019- 300 + Zack Snyder directs this faithful adaptation of Frank Miller's (Sin City) graphic novel about the storied Battle of [...] capture Miller's original vision, co-stars Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Rodrigo Santoro and Dominic West.

+ 020- The Kingdom + An FBI squad led by Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) travels to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to probe a deadly al-Qaida terrorist bombing [...] in this action thriller co-starring Jennifer Garner as forensics specialist Janet Mayes and Chris Cooper as bomb expert Grant Sykes.

+ 021- Mission: Impossible III + Helmed by J.J. Abrams, the third entry in the explosive espionage series finds semiretired superspy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) [...] and his crack field team to Berlin on a rescue mission. Meanwhile, Ethan's agency superiors may be double-dealing their operatives.

+ 022- Hancock + Will Smith stars as Hancock, a down-and-out superhero forced to employ a PR expert, Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), to help repair [...] will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits? Charlize Theron co-stars in Peter Berg's action comedy.

+ 023- Sahara + Based on Clive Cussler's best-selling novels starring action hero Dirk Pitt, Sahara sets the daring adventurer on a mission to [...] and battles an evil industrialist bent on killing every living thing in the world's oceans. Also stars Steve Zahn and Penelope Cruz.

+ 024- Spider-Man 3 + Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) faces off against a new crop of villains, including the shape-shifting Sandman (Thomas Haden [...] Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) and gets caught up in a love triangle. Kirsten Dunst and James Franco co-star.

+ 025- The Island + Michael Bay's stylish sci-fi thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as members of a strictly regulated indoor [...] about the true nature of "the Island" -- and their very existence -- leads the two to stage a desperate escape to the outside world.