Arthouse action film

• Stylized action
• Arthouse atmosphere
• Disjointed, fragmented narrative and more complexity than the typical action flick which gives the viewer a sense of dreamy surrealism

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• Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)[2]
• Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)[2]
• Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)[3]
• The Exterminator (James Glickenhaus, 1980) [4]
• Gloria (John Cassavetes, 1980)[2]
• The Soldier (James Glickenhaus, 1982) [5]
• Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985) [6] [7]
• Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)[2]
• The Killer (John Woo, 1989) [8]
• El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez, 1992) [9]
• Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994) [10]
• Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) [11]
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)[2]
• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)[12]
• Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) [13]
• Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011) [14]
• Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) [15]
• Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012) [16][17]
• Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)[18]

• Kathryn Bigelow[19]
• James Glickenhaus[20]
• Nicolas Winding Refn[21]
• Steven Soderbergh[22]
• Joe Wright[23]

• Cannon Films
• Art film
• Vulgar auteurism
• Neo-noir
• Film noir
• Midnight movie
• Synthwave