Top rated action-oriented movies that are also academic

Check out today’s highest ranked action-oriented and academic movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are action-oriented and academic, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Hunt (2022)

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.

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2022-08-10 | Action / Mystery

Cast

Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung

Rating

rating icon 6.642
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    explosive
  2. Ranked #1 for
    exciting climax
  3. Ranked #1 for
    locking horns

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Hunt trailer
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2 Cloudy Mountain (2021)

The opening of the new tunnel, which took ten years to build, coincided with a series of serious cataclysms. The lives of 160,000 people depend on the actions of two people, a father and a son.

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2021-09-11 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Zhu Yilong, Huang Zhizhong

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    ordinary man
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sacrificial character
  3. Ranked #3 for
    convincing portrayal

Trailer

Cloudy Mountain trailer
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3 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

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2019-08-08 | War / Action

Cast

Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey

Rating

rating icon 6.821
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brave character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    heroic acting
  3. Ranked #2 for
    true representation

Trailer

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan trailer
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4 The Outpost (2020)

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.

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2020-06-24 | War / Drama

Cast

Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones

Rating

rating icon 6.876
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indefensible character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    authentic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    brave character

Trailer

The Outpost trailer
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5 Riders of Justice (2020)

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

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2020-11-19 | Action / Comedy

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    superb writing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    reliable director
  3. Ranked #1 for
    full of surprises

Trailer

Riders of Justice trailer
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6 The Forever Purge (2021)

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

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2021-06-30 | Horror / Action

Cast

Ana de la Reguera, Josh Lucas

Rating

rating icon 6.988
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    political overtone
  2. Ranked #2 for
    good performance
  3. Ranked #3 for
    stale

Trailer

The Forever Purge trailer
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7 The Vault (2021)

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a way into one of the most secure and guarded places on the planet.

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2021-03-04 | Drama / Action

Cast

Freddie Highmore, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    carefully planned
  2. Ranked #1 for
    Treasure Hunt
  3. Ranked #1 for
    extremely difficult

Trailer

The Vault trailer
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8 Warriors of Future (2022)

When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.

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2022-08-05 | Drama / Action

Cast

Louis Koo, Lau Ching-wan

Rating

rating icon 7.114
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fast editing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    stone-faced cast
  3. Ranked #1 for
    facile

Trailer

Warriors of Future trailer
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9 Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

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2022-05-24 | Action / Drama

Cast

Tom Cruise, Miles Teller

Rating

rating icon 8.224
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    naff
  2. Ranked #2 for
    cocksure
  3. Ranked #2 for
    exhilarating

Trailer

Top Gun: Maverick trailer
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10 Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.

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2019-12-19 | Action / Drama

Cast

Donnie Yen, Wu Yue

Rating

rating icon 7.265
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    grand finale
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beat down
  3. Ranked #1 for
    teaching tool

Trailer

Ip Man 4: The Finale trailer
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