+ Netflix Top 25 in Action & Adventure +

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Last Update: Mon May 26 00:43:10 2008

+ 001- 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?

+ 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- 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.

+ 004- 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.

+ 005- 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.

+ 006- 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. …

+ 007- 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.

+ 008- 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.

+ 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- 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.

+ 011- 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.

+ 012- Live Free or Die Hard + John McClane (Bruce Willis) is back and badder than ever, and this time he's up against a ring of Internet terrorists. Now [...] still boasts plenty of good old-fashioned gunfights, smashups and explosions. Note: The Blu-Ray version of this film is rated PG-13.

+ 013- 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.

+ 014- 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.

+ 015- 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.

+ 016- The Italian Job + Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) leads a gang that manages to pull off a major heist and steal a carload of gold stashed in a [...] in the first place. But can they get away with the heist -- for good? Charlize Theron, Seth Green and Donald Sutherland co-star.

+ 017- 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.

+ 018- Troy + In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris of Troy (Orlando Bloom) kidnaps legendary beauty Helen (Diane Kruger) from her husband, King [...] Eric Bana plays Hector, the leader of the Trojan forces, and Sean Bean is the wily Ulysses (of Trojan Horse fame). Positively Homeric!

+ 019- The Day After Tomorrow + After years of unabated global warming, the greenhouse effect is wreaking havoc all over the globe in the form of catastrophic [...] to safety his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was in New York when the city was overwhelmed by the beginnings of the new big freeze.

+ 020- Ghost Rider + In this hell-on-wheels thriller, Nicolas Cage stars as Johnny Blaze, a badass stunt cyclist who makes a Faustian bargain with [...] Mephisto's archenemy and son, who's scheming to depose his pop. The supporting cast includes Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott and Donal Logue.

+ 021- Superman Returns + After a multiyear hiatus from Metropolis, Superman (played by Brandon Routh and Stephan Bender) returns to find a city that's [...] Peta Wilson and Marlon Brando (through the magic of archival footage) co-star in this long-awaited installment of the superhero saga.

+ 022- The Last Samurai + Tom Cruise stars as Captain Nathan Algren in this epic movie set in 1870s Japan. Hired to instruct the country's new army in [...] Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself, to be loyal, selfless and true, and to fight for the samurai's right to exist.

+ 023- Spider-Man 3 + After defeating eight-armed cyborg Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) faces off against a new crop of villains, [...] Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) and gets caught up in a love triangle. Kirsten Dunst and James Franco co-star.

+ 024- The Kingdom + When a deadly bombing attack targets Americans in the Middle East, a counterterrorism squad is dispatched to find the culprits. [...] hampered by local bureaucracy, the team realizes they may be the terrorists' next target. Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman also star.

+ 025- Constantine + John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) is a private investigator who believes in things that go bump in the night -- which makes him [...] be a suicide. She wants definitive proof of the cause of death … but the answers may only come with blind faith on her part.