As the weather starts to cool off, the fall can be the ideal time to take advantage of all the streaming subscriptions that you didn’t use much while you were enjoying the summer activities in the outdoors. If you’re looking for great action movies on Netflix, then we’ve got you covered.
Finding interesting movies on Netflix can be a challenge because of how many titles the service throws at you, but we’ve pulled together five movies that are definitely worth your time and aren’t in danger of leaving the streaming service before the end of the season. Check out our picks below.
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Rebel Ridge (2024)
After first hitting Netflix in the early fall, Rebel Ridge has become one of the streamer’s most popular originals of the year. The film tells the story of a Black man who is stopped by police while attempting to bail his cousin out of jail. When the cops confiscate his money, he goes to fairly elaborate lengths to get it back — and discovers just how corrupt this Louisiana police department is in the process.
Rebel Ridge is riveting from the jump, and features an incredible central performance from Aaron Pierre, whose character wants to be reasonable, but is faced with an unreasonable world.
Baby Driver (2017)
Few directors have a more intuitive sense of how to choreograph action sequences than Edgar Wright, and Baby Driver gives him ample opportunity to do just that. The movie tells the story of a getaway driver with prodigious talent and an affinity for music who finds himself in over his head just as he’s trying to leave his life of crime behind.
Featuring some wildly elaborate chase sequences set to some killer pop songs from the past 60 years, Baby Driver is incredibly inventive at the level of its action beats, and it’s those action beats that have helped the movie endure in the years since it was first released.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Yes it’s animated, but Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is nonetheless one of the most visually inventive action movies ever made. Following Miles Morales as he discovers an entire alliance of interdimensional spider-people who are determined not to destroy any timelines, Across the Spider-Verse seems to understand exactly how to take full advantage of the powers at the core of Spider-Man’s skill set.
Perhaps the film’s most impressive set piece is an elaborate chase sequence through time and space, but whether it’s simple swings through Manhattan or fight choreography, Across the Spider-Verse knows how to make its action soar.
21 Jump Street (2012)
One of the best action comedies of the 21st century, 21 Jump Street tells the story of two cops who are assigned to go undercover at a high school to ferret out a drug ring. Because Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill don’t look like high school students, one of the movie’s best running jokes is their age-inappropriateness for the assignment.
The chemistry between Hill and Tatum also proves to be essential to the movie’s comedy, even as it also spends plenty of time on the two of them trying to root out the school’s drug dealers and take them down.
The Harder They Fall (2021)
A revisionist Western that centers on Black characters, The Harder They Fall tells the story of an outlaw who discovers that a bitter enemy is being released from prison, and decides to reassemble his gang to confront him.
The presence of the controversial Jonathan Majors at the center here may leave some with a bitter taste in their mouth, but The Harder They Fall has plenty of star power outside its lead role. Idris Elba, LaKeith Stanfield, and Regina King are all great here, and what’s even better are the action sequences that showcase how thrilling Westerns can still be.
