Netflix's Top 5 trending Action movies: Complete list

Netflix has a full catalog of heart-pounding action movies to choose from. Here's a list of five adventure-filled and thrilling action movies that are trending on Netflix right now.

1. The Sleepover (2020):

Synopsis:

This movie is about siblings Clancy and Kevin at a sleepover with their friends when they learn that their mother is a former thief under the witness protection program. The mother gets kidnapped and the friends go on a mission to rescue their mother on an action-packed night.

Director:

This action-comedy film is directed by Trish Sie and based on a screenplay by Sarah Rothschild.

  Cast:

• Sadie Stanley
• Maxwell Simkins
• Ken Marino
• Cree Cicchino
• Lucas Jaye
• Karla Souza
• Enuka Okuma
• Erik Griffin
• Joe Manganiello

2. Army of the Dead (2021):

Synopsis:

During a zombie outbreak, a group of mercenaries take a risk and go into the quarantine zone to pull off the biggest heist ever attempted.

Director:

This movie is directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shay Hatten and Joby Harold.

  Cast:

• Dave Bautista
• Ella Purnell
• Omari Hardwick
• Ana de la Reguera
• Theo Rossi
• Matthias Schweighöfer
• Nora Arnezeder
• Hiroyuki Sanada

3. Project Power (2020):

Synopsis:

This science fiction movie follows a policeman, a drug dealer, and an ex-soldier who go on a mission to take down a group that has created a pill that gives superpowers to its users for five minutes. 

Director:

This science-fiction action film is directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman and produced by Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless.

  Cast:

• Jamie Foxx
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Dominique Fishback
• Colson Baker
• Rodrigo Santoro
• Amy Landecker 

4. Extraction (2020):

Synopsis:

An Australian black ops mercenary goes on a mission to save the kidnapped son of an imprisoned drug lord in India but his mission goes wrong in the dark world underworld of weapons dealers and drug traffickers

   Cast:

• Chris Hemsworth
• Rudhraksh Jaiswal
• Randeep Hooda 

• Golshifteh Farahani

• Pankaj Tripathi
• David Harbour

5. Triple Frontier (2019):

Synopsis:

A group of former U.S. Army Delta Force operators plan a heist against a crime lord in a thinly populated multi-border zone of South America but their dangerous mission goes haywire and they are faced with an epic battle of survival.

Director:

This action-adventure film is directed by J. C. Chandor. Chandor and Mark Boal wrote the screenplay based on a story by Boal.

   Cast:

• Ben Affleck
  
• Oscar Isaac
  
• Charlie Hunnam
  
• Garrett Hedlund
  
• Pedro Pascal