Top 20 Action Movies of 1997
by muybueno16 | created - 29 Jan 2014 | updated - 17 Aug 2019 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Air Force One (1997)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Communist radicals hijack Air Force One with the U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson
Votes: 210,229 | Gross: $172.96M
2. Starship Troopers (1997)
R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
Votes: 321,420 | Gross: $54.81M
3. Drive (1997)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
Director: Steve Wang | Stars: Mark Dacascos, Kadeem Hardison, John Pyper-Ferguson, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 6,921
4. Men in Black (1997)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
James, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 613,297 | Gross: $250.69M
5. Full Alert (1997)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H. K. Jockey Club.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Francis Ng, Amanda Lee, Monica Chan
Votes: 1,324
6. Murder at 1600 (1997)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman is murdered in the White House. Homicide detective Regis investigates while Secret Service works against him. He's assigned agent Chance. She eventually cooperates after a man's framed.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Dennis Miller
Votes: 32,918 | Gross: $25.83M
7. The Peacemaker (1997)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.
Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev
Votes: 62,456 | Gross: $41.26M
8. Con Air (1997)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Newly-paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner-transport plane when the passengers seize control.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Colm Meaney
Votes: 319,452 | Gross: $101.12M
9. G.I. Jane (1997)
R | 125 min | Action, Drama, War
Lt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe
Votes: 87,062 | Gross: $48.17M
10. Gang Related (1997)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
Director: Jim Kouf | Stars: Jim Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 10,017 | Gross: $5.79M
11. Executive Target (1997)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A stunt driver heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.
Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Michael Madsen, Roy Scheider, Keith David, Angie Everhart
Votes: 1,172
12. Plato's Run (1997 Video)
R | 96 min | Action
Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination.
Director: James Becket | Stars: Gary Busey, Roy Scheider, Steven Bauer, Jeff Speakman
Votes: 537
13. The Peacekeeper (1997)
R | 98 min | Action
When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
Director: Frédéric Forestier | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Michael Sarrazin, Montel Williams, Roy Scheider
Votes: 2,896
14. Bloodmoon (1997)
R | 102 min | Action, Thriller
Martial arts action film finds a retired detective returning to action to stop a martial arts master with steel fingers who is killing champions from all sports.
Director: Siu-Hung Leung | Stars: Gary Daniels, Chuck Jeffreys, Frank Gorshin, Darren Shahlavi
Votes: 925
15. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 204,746 | Gross: $125.33M
16. Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of crooks, an ex con, his friend and a gun crazy gangster plan a drug heist, but not everything goes as planned.
Director: Kiefer Sutherland | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Dickens, Vincent Gallo, Mykelti Williamson
Votes: 5,231 | Gross: $0.05M
17. True Vengeance (1997 Video)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An ex-naval intelligence officer is forced to assassinate a CEO when his daughter is kidnapped by the Yakuza.
Director: David Worth | Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Beverly Johnson, Miles O'Keeffe, Jonathan Lutz
Votes: 340
18. Strategic Command (1997)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab.
Director: Rick Jacobson | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Paul Winfield, Richard Norton, Amanda Wyss
Votes: 929
19. Operation Delta Force (1997 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.
Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Jeff Fahey, Rob Stewart, Frank Zagarino
Votes: 1,035
20. Behind Enemy Lines (1997)
R | 89 min | Action, Thriller
An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Chris Mulkey, Mark Carlton, Mushond Lee
Votes: 1,054
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