action movie

See also: action-movie

English

action movie (plural action movies)

A motion picture whose storyline involves fast-paced activity and conflict, usually including such elements as a heroic protagonist, violent fights, acrobatic stunts, chase scenes, and gunplay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an iconic star of action movies.
- 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  It takes a whole lot to turn The Road Warrior into an afterthought. George Miller’s second Mad Max movie, released in 1981, is a total masterpiece, and it’s one of the defining action movies of the ’80s, the golden age of the action movie.

a type of motion picture

Arabic: فِيلْمُ أَكْشِنْ‎ (fīlmu ʾakšin); فِيلْمُ حَرَكَةٍ‎ (fīlmu ḥarakatin)
Armenian: մարտաֆիլմ (hy) (martafilm)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動作電影, 动作电影 (dòngzuò diànyǐng), 動作片 (zh), 动作片 (zh) (dòngzuòpiàn)
Estonian: märulifilm (et)
Finnish: toimintaelokuva (fi)
French: film d'action m
German: Actionfilm (de) m
Hungarian: akciófilm (hu)

Japanese: アクション映画 (akushon eiga)
Korean: 액션 영화 (aeksyeon yeonghwa)
Malay: filem aksi
Portuguese: filme de ação m
Russian: боеви́к (ru) m (bojevík), приключе́нческий фильм m (priključénčeskij filʹm), экшн (ru) m (ekšn)
Spanish: película de acción f
Swedish: actionfilm (sv) c
Vietnamese: phim đánh đấm, phim bắn giết