Independent Action & Adventure on Netflix

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.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.7
Runtime: 01:39:11
Netflix ID: 80225243 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:47:12
Netflix ID: 16944044 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:41:17
Netflix ID: 80096995 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:37:12
Netflix ID: 80203525 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:48:36
Netflix ID: 70038792 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:55:48
Netflix ID: 80049284 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On his way to a global competition, a talented DJ gets stranded in an unfamiliar country and detained after a case of mistaken identity.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:24:04
Netflix ID: 81272349 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Mia Wasikowska is affecting as adventurer Robyn Davidson, who crossed the Australian desert alone -- and on foot -- in 1977.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:40:14
Netflix ID: 70292997 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 02:06:20
Netflix ID: 80165855 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this harrowing drama -- which has no dialogue -- a man stranded alone at sea courageously battles a ferocious storm as he struggles to survive.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:45:44
Netflix ID: 70266673 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A hired gun has second thoughts when he's contracted to kill a teenage girl whose father's shady business dealings put her life in danger.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:30:53
Netflix ID: 70295169 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the Great Famine ravages his beloved country, a battle-hardened Irishman deserts the British Empire and exacts revenge on the tyrants responsible.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:39:52
Netflix ID: 81020093 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The day-to-day stories of the controversial Italian riot police are told through the eyes of three unpopular officers who confront violence daily.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:45:29
Netflix ID: 70271479 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this parody of the Lethal Weapon franchise, criminals murder a detective and steal her prized evidence: microfilm with a recipe for cocaine cookies. Luckily, loose-cannon cop Jack Colt and his by-the-book partner, Wes Luger, are on the case.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:22:29
Netflix ID: 22497725 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A sketchy arms transaction in a deserted warehouse turns into a free-for-all when the two sides engage in a take-no-prisoners shootout.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:30:27
Netflix ID: 80091310 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a reluctant soldier's platoon is dispatched on a dangerous mission to repair a hostile village's water system.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:53:20
Netflix ID: 80118916 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a city where super-powered people are ostracized, an earnest day laborer considers using his outlawed abilities for money to save his sick mother.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:38:25
Netflix ID: 81194641 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of war veterans rallies to defend a teenage girl with a bag of stolen drugs from an enraged dealer and a gang of hopped-up punks.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:31:58
Netflix ID: 81194683 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Nazis retreated to the Moon in 1945, but after they're discovered by an American shuttle in 2018, they relaunch their plans to invade Earth.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:32:45
Netflix ID: 70232039 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:37:44
Netflix ID: 80232330 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A team of mercenaries working with the CIA accepts an off-the-books mission in Chernobyl, where deadly human-controlled droids prepare an ambush.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:33:43
Netflix ID: 80232404 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In an unstable future, a former military hero enlists the help of an escaped convict to rescue his daughter from impending danger.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:39:09
Netflix ID: 80202532 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Young motocross racer Miles Hill helps a top-secret robotic combat dog evade its ruthless creator and the military, who are in hot pursuit.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 01:38:55
Netflix ID: 80195967 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When their diverse neighborhood is besieged by a mysterious militia, a grad student and an ex-Marine become an unlikely team in a battle for survival.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.2
Runtime: 01:33:59
Netflix ID: 80174220 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Stranded at a summer camp when aliens attack the planet, four teens with nothing in common embark on a perilous mission to save the world.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:39:08
Netflix ID: 80218306 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When his son's killers are given a light sentence, a man purposely gets himself arrested so he can take matters into his own hands.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:41:05
Netflix ID: 70017716 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With entry into the European Union at stake, Albania must rely on a mash-up of elite cops to take down a slippery drug lord dominating its economy.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5
Runtime: 01:43:06
Netflix ID: 81127333 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a skilled fighter falls in the ring, his younger brother emerges from the shadows to train and get revenge against a brutal champion.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 4.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:30:16
Netflix ID: 80103392 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A detective whose wife was killed by a man he put behind bars deliberately gets arrested and thrown in prison so he can exact revenge.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 4.7
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:30:06
Netflix ID: 80053558 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A team of oddball assassins attempts to take down a notorious killer, but he manages to outsmart them at every turn of their half-baked plan.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 4.7
Runtime: 01:32:39
Netflix ID: 80209535 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An American platoon stationed in the Middle East is thrust into battle with a breed of tentacled aliens whose rapid spread threatens human survival.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 4.3
Netflix rating: 2.6/5
Runtime: 01:59:03
Netflix ID: 70253597 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When Los Angeles erupts into chaos after unprecedented seismic activity, an ambitious TV reporter chases the story while searching for his family.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 4.2
Runtime: 01:29:43
Netflix ID: 81240444 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the late 1800s, legendary marshal Bass Reeves sets out on the trail of notorious outlaw Bob Dozier.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 4.1
Runtime: 01:50:25
Netflix ID: 81208146 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After getting in a fight at her school in Southeast Asia, an American teen is sent to a correctional facility, where she faces hard labor and abuse.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 3.8
Runtime: 01:26:08
Netflix ID: 80190215 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bank robber joins a plot to commit one final, historic heist before the government turns on a mind-altering signal that will end all criminal behavior.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 3.6
Runtime: 02:29:02
Netflix ID: 80198975 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a futuristic wasteland, a young prince leaves his desert oasis on a dangerous search for a miracle cure that could save his dying mother.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 3.2
Runtime: 01:28:27
Netflix ID: 80996808 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb