Hidden Gems
Underrated Action Movies
Action films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Action Films
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Shichinin no samurai
Akira Kurosawa·1954·ActionTML 95★ 8.6$269K box officeToshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura +2
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Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa·1954·ActionTML 95★ 8.6$820K box officeToshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura +2
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Michael Curtiz·1938·ActionTML 90★ 7.9$4.0M box officeWilliam Keighley, Errol Flynn +2
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The Hidden Fortress
Akira Kurosawa·1958·ActionTML 88★ 8.0$47K box officeToshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara +2
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki·2021·AnimationTML 86★ 8.0$811K box officeKatsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki +2
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Uri: The Surgical Strike
Aditya Dhar·2018·ActionTML 86★ 8.2$4.2M box officeVicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal +2
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki·1997·AnimationTML 85★ 8.1$1.3M box officeKazuya Tsurumaki, Megumi Ogata +2
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Thomas Jahn·1997·ActionTML 84★ 8.0$3K box officeTil Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers +2
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Vaastav: The Reality
Mahesh Manjrekar·1999·ActionTML 84★ 8.0$81K box officeSanjay Dutt, Namrata Shirodkar +2
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Sonchiriya
Abhishek Chaubey·2019·ActionTML 83★ 7.9$87K box officeSushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar +2
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