Action × Drama Genre

  • Action — competing, and the fight to overcome
  • Drama — endurance, and the weight of an ordinary life

Action with a person at its centre. The fighting matters, but so do the family, the injury or the choice behind it, and the film stays with the cost afterwards.

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Action × Drama films

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  • Léon: The Professional

    1994

  • Gladiator

    2000

  • Seven Samurai

    1954

  • Scarface

    1983

  • Top Gun: Maverick

    2022

  • Ford v Ferrari

    2019

  • Heat

    1995

  • Logan

    2017

  • Batman Begins

    2005

  • Elite Squad

    2007

  • The Shadow's Edge

    2025

  • Warrior

    2011

  • Rush

    2013

  • F1

    2025

  • Sound of Freedom

    2023

  • Ip Man

    2008

  • Platoon

    1986

  • Apocalypto

    2006

  • The Last Samurai

    2003

  • Fury

    2014

  • Blood Diamond

    2006

  • Planet of the Apes

    1968

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