MOVIEPIQ CURATED LIST
Action Movies When You Cant Sleep With a Shocking Twist Ending
ACTION · WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEPLate-night viewing at low volume, lights off, is one of cinema's better settings. The right film can shift everything. This list was put together for that specific occasion.
Action cinema works when the physical language of the film carries emotional weight. Every film here was chosen with that standard in mind.
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, ...
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Star Wars
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the ...
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Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the Justice League, Teen ...
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Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on...
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Scarface
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eve...
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Top Gun: Maverick
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TO...
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Sky...
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation... until they're attacked by a villain with an unfathomable Quirk...
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Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to work on Digimon incidents and ...
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Kill Shot
Posing as hunters, a group of terrorists are in search of $100 million that was stolen and lost in a plane crash en route from Afghanistan.
A great twist doesn't just surprise. It recontextualises everything that came before it.
The best of these are films worth watching twice: once for the story, once to catch everything you missed. Action cinema rarely gets the critical respect it deserves. These films make the case for it.