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Mar 8, 2022 · If you've been looking for a fast-paced, action-packed movie featuring a kick-ass woman front and center, this list is for you. Browse this guide of women-led action movies and add these...
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Top 30 Female Action Films. by nickkasem • Created 9 years ago • Modified 3 years ago. List activity. 5.3K views. 35 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 30 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Kill Bill: Vol. 1. 2003 1h 51m R. 8.2 (1.2M) Rate. 69 Metascore.
- Alien Franchise. Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright Harry Dean Stanton. 547 votes. Sigourney Weaver is arguably the biggest and best female action star of all time thanks to one role, her game-changing and revolutionary portrayal of Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once. Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan. 158 votes. A science fiction action adventure comedy-drama, Everything Everywhere All at Once has plainly put, everything in terms of the genre and tones that it is trying to achieve, and it manages to beautifully blend them all into one masterful story, but above nearly everything else in the film, the one element that stands out is the phenomenal action.
- Prey. Amber Midthunder, Dane DiLiegro, Harlan Blayne Kytwayhat. 187 votes. One of the most surprising movies of the past few decades, Prey is a prequel series to the beloved Predator series that follows a hunter in 1719 as she faces off against the apex predator of the galaxy.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong. 393 votes. Few characters saw as radical a change as Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor did between the first and second Terminator films.
- 14 Haywire
- 13 Alita: Battle Angel
- 12 Salt
- 11 Mad Max: Fury Road
- 10 Captain Marvel
- 9 Birds of Prey
- 8 Atomic Blonde
- 7 Underworld
- 6 Kill Bill: Volume 1
- 5 Aliens
In Haywire, Gina Carano establishes herself as Mallory Kane, a highly proficient agent for the government. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film highlights Carano's mixed martial arts history to its fullest, raising the bar for female-centric action films. Carano imbues her character, Mallory, with an unusual sense of vulnerability, presenting he...
Packed with Stunning visuals, Alita: Battle Angelemerges as an exceptional entry into the female-led action films category. The narrative focuses on Alita, a forsaken cyborg with a hidden history, given life through Rosa Salazar's compelling acting. Brought to the silver screen through an amalgamation of motion capture and live-action, the characte...
Thrillingly captivating, Salt stars Angelina Jolie in the titular role of Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent charged with being a Russiansleeper agent. Jolie's outstanding portrayal allows the audience to witness Salt's transformation from a once devoted spy to a fugitive on the run from her own agency, desperately seeking to vindicate herself. The audience ...
Unexpectedly captivating in Mad Max: Fury Roadis Charlize Theron's character, Imperator Furiosa. Despite the film's belonging to the iconic Mad Max franchise, it is Furiosa who arises as the authentic protagonist. Theron's potent and persuasive depiction of Furiosa has become one of the most memorable performances in contemporary action cinema, ill...
Captain Marvel ascended to the big screen in 2019, marking the Marvel Cinematic Universe's initial venture into female-led films. Standing at the heart of the cosmic chaos is Carol Danvers, exquisitely embodied with grace and resolution by Brie Larson. As a former U.S. Air Force aviator who is thrust into becoming one of the universe's most formida...
The DC Extended Universe gave the candy-colored and chaotic Harley Quinn her very own picture with the 2020 girl power superhero flick Birds of Prey, which follows the cheerfully unhinged character after she breaks up with the Joker and finds herself targeted by Gotham City crime lord Roman Sionis. Quinn reluctantly teams up with superheroines Blac...
The always extraordinary Charlize Theron headlines the 2017 action thriller Atomic Blonde, which is based on the graphic novel The Coldest City and revolves around top-level MI6 field agent Lorraine Broughton, who has to find a list of double agents that are being smuggled into the West on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The hig...
Len Wiseman’s 2003 action horror film Underworld focuses on the secret history of vampires and lycans while following the vampire Death Dealer Selene, who finds herself entrenched in the ongoing battle between opposing forces and finds herself falling in love with a human the lycans are desperate to capture. The brilliant Kate Beckinsale stars as t...
The renowned master of stylized violence Quentin Tarantino directed the 2003 martial arts classic Kill Bill: Volume 1, enlisting the talented Uma Thurman to star as the Bride, who swears revenge on a dangerous team of assassins and their leader after they attempt to kill both her and her unborn child. Both Tarantino and Thurman conceived the charac...
The esteemed James Cameron directed the iconic 1986 sci-fi action classic Aliens, centering on Ellen Ripley, who awakens from her hyper-sleep 57 years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel; she sets out to warn a deep space salvage team that merciless space creatures are still a terrifying threat. Sigourney Weaver reprised h...
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- 'Captain Marvel' Hell yeah, Captain Marvel! Just when some fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe were worried that there wouldn't be a one-off film about a female superhero, Brie Larson comes in to save the day—nay, the galaxy.
- 'Atomic Blonde' Charlize Theron (who appears later on this list, that's how badass she is) plays the brilliant, vicious, does-whatever-she-wants elite spy.
- 'Annihilation' Forget one female lead: This movie had a handful. Gina Rodriguez, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuva Novotny, and Tessa Thompson play a team of scientists and military personnel sent to investigate a rapidly-spreading alien....
- 'Dark Phoenix' Sophie Turner is young Jean Gray in this origin film in the X-Men franchise. It's also one of the first female-led origin films, though we're hoping it won't be the last.
Dec 12, 2019 · Ironically, action films are stereotyped as the launching pad of the manliest of manly men: Schwarzenegger, The Rock, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and so on. But some of the biggest action hits, both critically and commercially, are led by women.
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Jan 11, 2021 · From superheroes to superspies, these women kick butt, take names, and deliver stunning performances. Here are 15 action movies starring badass women.
