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Action Movies

Do you like gladiator movies? War movies? Gangster movies? Kung fu movies? Swordfight movies? Alien invasion movies?

This is a community for any movie with a punch, a kick, a stab, a shot or an explosion, or preferably all of the above and plenty of 'em.

Everything from Armour of God to Zulu, from Above the Law to Zatoichi.

Feel free to post:

Rules

In addition to piefed.social's instance rules.

  1. Let's be nice to each other
  2. Let's keep it legal (e.g. licensed streaming)
  3. Let's stay on topic

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Free, legal streaming action movies & shows (piefed.social)
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Hi everyone,

I thought I'd post some licensed sources for free, legal streaming action movies & shows. These can be seen:

  • free-gratis

  • no account required

  • full screen

  • in a web browser

  • in some countries but probably not all (please let me know in the comments which work and don't work in your location)

1. Free, licensed action movies & shows

1.1

  • FreeMovies+ - Action (note: I can watch FreeMovies+ full screen on my Roku, but in the web browser there are navigation bars at side and top, even in so-called "full screen". Might be different for you, or with an account.)

2. YouTube, The Internet Archive, Daily Motion etc.

Because anyone can upload to sites like those, I need to investigate the legal issues more before we can recommend most links from there, as they may or may not be licensed.

I will add here some YouTube channels that I strongly believe are licensed. (I am not a lawyer.) Please comment if you know any more that you strongly believe are licensed.

FilmRise

(Action playlist)
FilmRise is a large independent AVOD distributor.

Flix for Free

(Action Movies playlist)
Flix for Free is an outlet for Uncork'd Entertainment, distributor of low budget action, horror and scifi

Shout! Studios

(Full movies playlist)
Outlet for Shout! Factory. Lots of genre material, usually over 20 years old.

TheArchiveMovies

(Action & Crime playlist)
(Kung Fu & Martial Arts playlist)
TheArchive is an outlet of Multicom Entertainment Group, distributor mainly of 'retro' content. I think there are differences in selection between their YouTube channel and their website (see section 1). I certainly see a lot more martial arts movies on the website than currently in that YouTube playlist.

The Wu Tang Collection

Outlet for the Wu Tang Collection

3. Library streaming

(Free but requires an account.)
In some countries, you might be able to stream a movie for free if you have a library card and your library participates in a digital media service.

4. Legit stream & download finding services

There are several services to help you find a legit source to stream or download a movie, maybe free or maybe paid.

  • JustWatch (Remember to select your country from the drop-down menu.)
  • Reelgood
  • Kinorium
  • JustWatch Search (A 'JustWatch search engine' but searches for multiple services for multiple countries. Enter the movie title and click on "Prices" {yes, even for free streaming}. Source.)

Your suggestions?

If you know any more sites like in sections 1, 2, 3 or 4, please let us know in the comments.

EDITS

  • 2025-07-02 - Sec. 2: added FilmRise, Flix for Free, Shout! Studios, and TheArchiveMovies. Added the Wu Tang Collection to Sec. 1 & 2.
  • 2025-07-01 - Added sections 3 and 4.
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Welcome to Action Movies (piefed.social)
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Hi and welcome to Action Movies.

There are other communities out there which might cover some of the content that fits here but not all.

I like B Movies, but some action movies are not B movies.
I like bad movies, but some action movies are not bad movies.
I like martial arts movies, but some action movies are not martial arts movies.

So I created this community to include all kinds of action movies.

Feel free to post and talk about:

  • news
  • reviews
  • legal streaming or downloads
  • questions & polls
  • recommendations
  • memes
  • etc.
2025/07/01: 
Currently in a "soft launch" phase, as I:  

- learn how to use PieFed's features  
- learn about how to mod a community  
- develop posting guidelines and rules  

Feel free to participate and give feedback.

Enjoy!

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[Trailer] Guns Up (2025) (www.youtube.com)
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When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one night to get his family out of the city.

Via https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/10760/guns-up

I have never been into the ELRCU (Everybody Loves Raymond Cinematic Universe) and the very mention of Paul Blart, Mall Cop makes me throw up a little in my mouth (never seen it, so it might be the Citizen Kane of our century for all I know).

But since Becky (2020), I can actually stand the sight of Kevin James.

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NEW ROBERT BRONZI AND MICHAEL PARÉ WESTERN BURY ‘EM DEEP RELEASES OFFICIAL TRAILER - The Action Elite (theactionelite.com)
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Source: The Action Elite

Further to Bronsploitation(lemmyverse link), there's a trailer and release date for Bury 'Em Deep (2025), the latest flick starring Charles Bronson lookalike Robert Bronzi and Michael Paré.

https://youtu.be/39kZnHOpsbw

Uncork’d Entertainment has North American rights and will release the film on streaming sites on July 8th as well as a DVD release at a later date. Glass House Distribution has foreign rights.

Uncork'd have a YouTube channel for licensed distribution of films, it might come out there.

I'll add this channel to the free licensed streaming list.

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BRONSPLOITATION! E.g. Exorcist Vengeance, Manchurian Avenger (cityonfire.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44048482

Everyone knows about Bruceploitation, that wave of martial art films starring Bruce Lee lookalikes with names like Bruce Li/Le/Lai etc.

But did you know about Bronsploitation? Action movies starring people who look like Charles Bronson. Director Mike Malloy has made a documentary about three Bronson-lookalikes who went into the movies:

Article:

Trailer:

I didn't know about Bronsploitation before, but given that he was the biggest movie star in the world for a while, it seems only logical that there were producers trying to cash in using lookalikes. In fact, full disclosure :D, I had a distant cousin who looked like Bronson and used to make some extra money in the 70s and 80s doing things like opening supermarkets!

I never would have guessed that Bronsploitation would still be a thing in the 2020s, though!

A more in-depth article on Bronzi:

Bronzi fares better in Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, the best of the Bronzi/Perez collaborations. The production values are still abysmal, with nearly every actor looking like they’re participating in a hastily organized Wild West re-enactment, but the story is more substantial, and Paré brings charisma to his role as the villain. The movie piggybacks on both Bronson Westerns and the HBO series Deadwood, with most of the action set in the Dakota Territory town of Deadwood, where Paré plays a local kingpin named Swearengen.

Obviously, Paré is no Ian McShane, and Perez is no David Milch. The dialogue and acting are mostly stiff and awkward, and Bronzi comes up against the limits of his range when he’s called upon to express pain and anguish. He’s a remarkably inexpressive actor, and it doesn’t help that Perez insists on having someone else dub his lines, to cover for Bronzi’s thick Hungarian accent. In From Hell to the Wild West, that voice comes closest to sounding like Bronson, and in other Perez movies it just sounds like a bored voiceover artist in a recording booth.

Trailer for Once Upon a Time in Deadwood:

And this line :D

Bronzi’s latest film, Escape From Death Block 13, is his first without Perez, and it’s easily the most movie-like movie he’s ever starred in.

Trailer for Escape From Death Block 13:

FULL MOVIES

Exorcist Vengeance (2022)

Horror starring Robert Bronzi and Steven Berkoff

Trailer:

Full movie (uploader claims to be the official channel for Uncork'd Entertainment, so I think it's legit):

The Manchurian Avenger (1984)

Martials arts Western starring Bobby Kim and Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace

Trailer:

Full movie (uploader claims all their movies are licensed and copyright-compliant; they also have the great Dolph Lundgren actioner Joshua Tree. If you haven't seen it, check it out!):

#fullmoviesonyoutube

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[Trailer] Trouble Man (2025), Michael Jai White & Method Man (www.youtube.com)
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Jaxen, a former cop turned Atlanta PI, is hired to find missing R&B star Jahari. His investigation uncovers her disappearance is connected to a larger conspiracy, forcing him to question those around him and his own past.

Via https://erik.thauvin.net/blog/posts/10776/trouble-man

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Future Cops (1993) (feddit.nl)
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In the year 2043, an evil crime lord is trying to take over the world. Only one government official stands in his way, and plans to send him to prison. The General and his minions travel back to the year 1993 to kill the official before he has a chance to get into office. Future Cops Lung, Broom Man, Ti Man, and Ah-Sing hear of the evil plan and decide to travel back in time themselves to protect the official.

TRAILER

IMDb.com || letterboxd.com

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[Review] ‘Lethal Weapon’ (4K UHD Blu-ray) (forcesofgeek.com)
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Lethal Weapon was one of my dad’s favorite movies.

He didn’t have many, and another one was Curly Sue, so I don’t know what that says about him. What I do know is that he took me to see this film when it came out, and it was one of the only movies he personally taped off of cable when it arrived on HBO, The Movie Channel, Cinemax, or Showtime.

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[News] Lalo Schifrin, composer for many action movies, dead at 93 (www.rollingstone.com)
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Catching up on my feeds, I only just found out that the famous movie composer & conductor Lalo Schifrin died. I didn't even know he had still been alive, he made it to 93.

Wikipedia

Rolling Stone obituary

He composed and/or conducted music for:

  • Cool Hand Luke
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Bullitt
  • Dirty Harry
  • Enter the Dragon
  • Kelly's Heroes
  • The Eagle Has Landed
  • Rush Hour

Soundtrack music

Mission: Impossible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvBVGsd4Lzc

Cool Hand Luke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQBmLM5PmQ

Dirty Harry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnKjpC7zxAY

Enter the Dragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JMc1jwYQkI

Battle Creek Brawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GdXxPNJ3ns

The Danube Incident

(Triphop fans may recognize the intro) https://youtu.be/LkVGfVXPy18

Roller Coaster

https://youtu.be/uJdjU6bhsW4

Kelly's Heroes / Burning Bridges

https://youtu.be/hjjlBbP0ufk

Rush Hour

https://youtu.be/clH_GRZP2Ps

Movies

I see a couple of action movies with Lalo Schifrin music are available on free, licensed streaming.

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[Review] World of Desire (1992) (cityonfire.com)
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Paul Taggart of City On Fire (a site about East Asian & martial arts movies) reviews Taiwan gangster/exploitation flick World of Desire (情慾世界) (1992 or 1993). (EnjoyMovie.net in Chinese)

In these days of boutique labels releasing Asian cinema hits and relative obscurities, there are still those who swim in murky waters where even Godfrey Ho fans wouldn’t swim. It’s a strange place, full of bottomless pits of crappiness, tonal whiplash, fountains of sleaze, geysers of violence and the detritus of cinema. It is the land of the Taiwan exploitation film.

You would think World of Desire is a cheapie 74-minute {soft-core} film from its poster and title, but it’s actually a cheapie gangster film with nudie bits. The plot is pretty basic, concerning three night club hostesses and a hoodlum who end up on the run from a gang after an incident at a hotel involving an old man, one of the women and a pistol. Various shenanigans ensure for the rest of the run-time mostly set around a night club the quartet end up running whilst trying to evade the local mobsters gunning for them.

World of Desire 情慾世界

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[Trailer] The Running Man (2025) (peertube.wtf)
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Here's the trailer for the new version of 1987's Schwarzenegger classic, The Running Man, this time starring Glenn Powell and directed by Edgar Wright (of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz fame).

What do you think? High hopes?

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[Movie] Crackerjack (1994) (lemmy.ca)
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Tagline 1

A $50 million heist
A ski resort held hostage
A cop with nothing to lose

Tagline 2

Jack take a vacation? Not on his life.

Elevator pitch

Die Hard at a ski resort (but without any skiing, that shit's expensive!)

Summary

Troubled loose cannon cop Jack Wild (yes, really) is persuaded by his brother and sister-in-law to take a break from it all and accompany them on a ski trip... only to find a mobster at the resort. And then a team of baddies take over the place to get the mobster's diamonds.

Trailer

Personnel

Cast

Info

Opinion

When I say this is Die Hard at a ski resort, boy, do I mean it!

Die Hard checklist

  • Unmarried cop on vacation: check!
  • Family member/s on site for higher stakes: check!
  • Assorted Euro baddies taking over a buildingful of hostages: check!
  • Led by a respected, international actor playing a well-dressed, well-spoken East German killer: check!
  • Cop talks to himself sarcastically about how well his vacation is going: check!
  • Cop disbelieved when reporting the hostage crisis to the authorities over the radio: check!
  • Cop takes out baddies one by one: check!
  • Cop and lead baddie exchange snappy repartee via stolen walkie-talkie: check!
  • Baddie threatens to kill hostage unless hero gives himself up: check!
  • Baddies already prepared for the inevitable response from the cavalry: check!
  • Bye bye, cavalry: check!
  • Baddie identifies the cop and cop's family member/s: check!
  • Baddies have a plan to kill all the hostages and make it look like they're dead, too: check!
  • Baddie reveals his motive is not what he made it seem: check!

Just about the only thing they didn't include was comic relief or a Christmas theme. And the snow was right there, fer crying out loud!

But given just how many Die Hard rip-offs there have been, and how bad most of them are, Crackerjack comes off as one of the better ones, especially given its low budget ($4 million Canadian, which is, what, a buck fiddy in real money? ;). Plummer's accent is not in Rickman's league, Kinski doesn't get to make us care much about her, and it lacks the little comic touches of its role model.

On the other hand, things move along at a fair pace (once the trouble starts), and when it comes to the hand-to-hand combat, it feels genuinely punishing, with Griffith pulling off some sweet moves. (I thought he was an actor!)

Spawned two more movies: in 2, Jack Wild is played by a different actor. And 3 has no other connection to the other two apart from the title. Always a sign of quality! :D

Movie

All movie links are for free (no account required), legal & licensed (AFAIK) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

Screenshots

Crackerjack 1994

Crackerjack 1994

Crackerjack 1994

Crackerjack 1994

#legitfreemovies

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Snake In The Eagle Shadow (1978) (www.youtube.com)
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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Chinese: 蛇形刁手; lit. 'Snake Form Tricky Hand') is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping in his directorial debut. It stars Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee, and Yuen Woo-ping's real life father, Yuen Siu-tien. The film's plot is about Chien Fu (Jackie Chan), an orphan who is bullied at a kung fu school, meeting an old beggar, Pai Cheng-tien (Yuen Siu-tien), who becomes his sifu (teacher) and trains him in Snake Kung Fu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_in_the_Eagle's_Shadow

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Aki Aleong (1934-2025) (piefed.social)
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Aki Aleong, long time actor, musician and more, has died. Even at 90, he was working and there are still a few releases pending.

Aki Aleong

You may remember him from:

  • Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) with Chuck Norris
  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
  • The Quest (1996) with JCVD & Roger Moore
  • Martial Law (TV, 1998) with Sammo Hung

and many more movies and shows.

Info

Bio (copied from Plex)
Aki Aleong's career has spanned more than 60 years as an actor, singer, writer, producer and activist. He has served on the National Board of the Screen Actors Guild, appointed National Chair of SAG'S EEOC and was a member of the President's Diversity/Affirmative Action Task Force. Aki has also been Executive Director of AIM (Asians in Media), Vice President of The Media Coalition of Los Angeles and President of MANAA (Media Action Network for Asian-Americans). Among Aki's numerous awards is an Honorary Doctorate from New Dimensions University in 2013.

Aki's legendary career started on Broadway in "Teahouse of the August Moon" and "The Interview." He went on to star in more than 50 movies and 150 television shows and has worked with Academy Award-winners Frank Sinatra Jr., Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway, Joanne Woodward, Steve McQueen, Ben Kingsley, John Mills, Ernest Borgnine, Jennifer Connelly and Martin Landau. Aki has worked with Directors William Wyler {3 time Oscar winner}, John Sturges and Martin Ritt. Other notable stars with whom Aki has worked include Roger Moore, Bill Cosby, Peter Lawford, Tony Randall, Gina Lollobrigida, Chuck Norris, Olivia Hussey, Pierce Brosnan and others, many of whom have been the recipients of Golden Globes, DGA, WGA, SAG, Cannes and similar prestigious awards. Aki's career also includes working with prominent Writers/Directors, including John Milius, Lionel Chetwynd, Philip Yordan, Mark Rydell and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pearl S. Buck.

Aki also has experience as a record executive producer/artist. He was Chairman of FORE (The Fraternity of Recording Executives), an organization dedicated to bringing Executives of Color into the Music Industry. His other affiliations include President of Pan World Records and Golden Dragon Publishing companies. He was the National Director of Black Promotion for Polydor/Polygram Records and also worked with Liberty/UA Records and Capitol Records. He also produced records for Columbia Records, Capitol, Liberty/UA, Artista and other prominent labels. Aki, in fact, is the first Asian American to have a Top100 record, which he wrote and co-produced, on the National Charts in the US.

Aki's other accomplishments include NAAAP ( National Association of Asian American Professionals) membership, an Advisory Board Member of the US China Aids Foundation and a Judge for the Asian American Teens 2007-2008.

Aki is President of MANAA (Media Action Network for Asian Americans), Senior Advisor for Ace Studios Hong Kong and President of Mustard Seed Media Group, for which he wrote, directed and starred in "Chinaman's Chance: America's Yellow Slaves." Aki's extensive background in the entertainment industry also includes the production of a wide variety of movies, videos and documentaries.

News articles

Videos

Aleong also worked in the music industry in various roles, including as a recording artist. Here's a surf record he did:

Movies & Shows

Tubi

Plex

YouTube

EDIT: streaming movie links work in some locations, but may be different for yours. E.g. Out for Blood is available on Tubi in the US but not on Tubi in Mexico.