Action Movies
All Through the Night

All Through the Night

All Through the Night
IMDb: 7.1
107

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

We Go Fast

We Go Fast

We Go Fast
IMDb: 6.2
64

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and…

Tarzan’s Secret Treasure

Tarzan’s Secret Treasure

Tarzan’s Secret Treasure
IMDb: 6.4
81

A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan’s escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Superman

Superman

Superman
IMDb: 7.3
10

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information…

Steel Against the Sky

Steel Against the Sky

Steel Against the Sky
IMDb: 5.7
67

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

Ridin’ on a Rainbow

Ridin’ on a Rainbow

Ridin’ on a Rainbow
IMDb: 5.5
79

When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money…

Genre: Action, Western
Riders of Death Valley

Riders of Death Valley

Riders of Death Valley
IMDb: 6.6
283

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter…

Genre: Action, Western
The Mechanical Monsters

The Mechanical Monsters

The Mechanical Monsters
IMDb: 7.3
10

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.

The Iron Claw

The Iron Claw

The Iron Claw
IMDb: 6.3
289

The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster…and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.

Genre: Action, Mystery
In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne
IMDb: 6.1
58

Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

High Sierra

High Sierra

High Sierra
IMDb: 7.5
100

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Doctors Don’t Tell

Doctors Don’t Tell

Doctors Don’t Tell
IMDb: 5.3
65

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.

Virginia City

Virginia City

Virginia City
IMDb: 6.8
121

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with…

Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone

Torrid Zone
IMDb: 6.7
88

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

The Son of Monte Cristo

The Son of Monte Cristo

The Son of Monte Cristo
IMDb: 6.2
102

Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to…

Shooting High

Shooting High

Shooting High
IMDb: 5.8
65

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

The Shadow

The Shadow

The Shadow
IMDb: 6.8
285

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.

One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.
IMDb: 5.7
80

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and…

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
IMDb: 6.3
126

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (“Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?”, another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder….

Murder in the Air

Murder in the Air

Murder in the Air
IMDb: 5.5
55

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a…

The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro
IMDb: 7.5
94

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on…

The Last Alarm

The Last Alarm

The Last Alarm
IMDb: 5.7
61

A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist….

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men
IMDb: 6.4
240

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor…

I’m Still Alive

I’m Still Alive

I’m Still Alive
IMDb: 5.6
72

Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her. He chooses the…

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
IMDb: 6.5
293

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent
IMDb: 7.4
120

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on…

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
IMDb: 6.6
195

A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the…

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th
IMDb: 6.6
90

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he’ll prove himself in the end.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
British Intelligence

British Intelligence

British Intelligence
IMDb: 6.1
61

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with…

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
IMDb: 5.9
73

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D’Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king’s Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of…

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Tarzan Finds a Son!
IMDb: 6.5
82

A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring
IMDb: 5.6
57

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air
IMDb: 5.7
61

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

Scouts to the Rescue

Scouts to the Rescue

Scouts to the Rescue
IMDb: 5.8
231

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal’s 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Sabotage

Sabotage

Sabotage
IMDb: 5.7
66

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at…

Genre: Action, Drama
Rangle River

Rangle River

Rangle River
IMDb: 6.5
86

Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan’s cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father’s foreman, Dick…

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
IMDb: 6.3
57

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Gunga Din

Gunga Din

Gunga Din
IMDb: 7.2
117

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of…

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels
IMDb: 6.6
76

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the…

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico
IMDb: 6.5
71

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay’s shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and…