Short Action Movies
Short action films, rated 3.0 or better — tightly cut, with no room for a sagging second act.
20 films, drawn from a catalog of 3,647 — every title rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members, with at least 5,000 ratings, and no longer than 110 minutes.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — 1h 27m · 1997 · Kazuya Tsurumaki · 4.5/5
- Children of Men — 1h 49m · 2006 · Alfonso Cuarón · 4.3/5
- Sherlock Jr. — 45 min · 1924 · Buster Keaton · 4.4/5
- Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc — 1h 39m · 2025 · Tatsuya Yoshihara · 4.3/5
- Ghost in the Shell — 1h 23m · 1995 · Mamoru Oshii · 4.1/5
- Fallen Angels — 1h 38m · 1995 · Wong Kar-wai · 4.2/5
- The Raid — 1h 41m · 2012 · Gareth Evans · 4.0/5
- Kung Fu Hustle — 1h 39m · 2004 · Stephen Chow · 4.0/5
- The Lego Batman Movie — 1h 44m · 2017 · Chris McKay · 4.0/5
- The Killer — 1h 50m · 1989 · John Woo · 4.2/5
- Ip Man — 1h 46m · 2008 · Wilson Yip · 4.0/5
- Hero — 1h 39m · 2002 · Zhang Yimou · 4.0/5
- The French Connection — 1h 44m · 1971 · William Friedkin · 4.0/5
- Sanjuro — 1h 36m · 1962 · Akira Kurosawa · 4.1/5
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm — 1h 16m · 1993 · Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski · 4.0/5
- RoboCop — 1h 42m · 1987 · Paul Verhoeven · 3.9/5
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 — 1h 42m · 2014 · Dean DeBlois · 3.9/5
- The Terminator — 1h 48m · 1984 · James Cameron · 3.9/5
- Sonatine — 1h 34m · 1993 · Takeshi Kitano · 4.1/5
- Kung Fu Panda — 1h 30m · 2008 · Mark Osborne, John Stevenson · 3.9/5