Best Independent Action & Adventure on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Independent Action & Adventure on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 36 titles in category code 11804. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Line of Duty (2019)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 39m. A disgraced cop must race against time to save the police chief's daughter from an unhinged suspect as a citizen journalist livestreams his pursuit.
2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1998, 1h 47m. Hoping to make a bundle in a high-stakes poker game, four shiftless lads from London's East End instead find themselves swimming in debt.
3. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 41m. A wild teenage boy and his late foster mother's cantankerous husband get lost in the wilderness after social services threatens to take the boy away.
4. The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Rated 7.6/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 37m. A man who has Down syndrome runs away to realize his wrestling dreams and sets out for adventure with a new friend in tow and a caregiver in pursuit.
5. Green Street (2005)
Rated 7.5/10 on IMDb, from 2005, 1h 48m. After a bogus drug scandal, a Harvard newspaper editor is kicked out of school and flies to London to live with his sister and her family.
6. The Nice Guys (2016)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 55m. When a porn star turns up dead in 1970s Los Angeles, a pair of odd-couple investigators uncovers a darkly comic case steeped in conspiracy.
7. Sawah (2019)
Rated 7.3/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 24m. On his way to a global competition, a talented DJ gets stranded in an unfamiliar country and detained after a case of mistaken identity.
8. Tracks (2013)
Rated 7.2/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 1h 40m. Mia Wasikowska is affecting as adventurer Robyn Davidson, who crossed the Australian desert alone -- and on foot -- in 1977.
9. Shaitan (2011)
Rated 7.2/10 on IMDb, from 2011, 2h 06m. When they're blackmailed after a hit-and-run, a troubled rich girl and her wild friends stage a fake kidnapping with a plan to collect the ransom.
10. All Is Lost (2013)
Rated 6.9/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 1h 45m. In this harrowing drama -- which has no dialogue -- a man stranded alone at sea courageously battles a ferocious storm as he struggles to survive.