James Gunn Recommends A Huge List Of Action Movies To Watch During Quarantine – Here's Where To Find Each Of Them

Around the time when the United States began realizing just how serious the coronavirus pandemic was, writer/director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) took to Twitter to share helpful recommendations about what people should watch while cooped up in their homes during the pandemic. Now he's at it again, and this time he's narrowed it down to (mostly) one genre: action. The filmmaker blasted out a series of action-heavy recommendations to improve your quarantine viewing, and we've done the legwork of figuring out where they're available to stream or rent online.

Gunn crafted a first draft of this list that included 140 films, but eventually ended up whittling it down to only 54. You can read his original tweet thread here, but we've broken his recommendations into a list and provided information (if available) about where you can watch them online.

Director: Stephen Chow

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Netflix

Directors: Lana and Lilly Wachowski

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Netflix

Director: John McTiernan

Where to Watch It: Streaming on HBO Go/HBO Now

Director: Park Chan-wook

Where to Watch It: Free on Tubi, rent it on YouTube or Google

Director: Park Chan-wook

Where to Watch It: Free on Tubi

Director: Christopher McQuarrie

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Hulu

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Gareth Evans

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Ang Lee

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Netflix

Director: Johnnie To

Where to Watch It: Currently unavailable

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: John Woo

Where to Watch It: Currently unavailable

Director: Chia-Liang Liu

Where to Watch It: Currently unavailable

Director: Corey Yuen

Where to Watch It: Buy it on Amazon

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Hulu

Director: Jung Byung-gil

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Hulu

Director: Neveldine/Taylor

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube or Amazon

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Where to Watch It: Free on Tubi and Vudu, rent it on iTunes and Amazon

Director: Park Chan-wook

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Mubi (free trial through Amazon)

Director: Terence Young

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Amazon and Hulu

Director: Luc Besson

Where to Watch It: Rent it on Vudu, YouTube, and Google

Director: Ted Post

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Steven Spielberg

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Netflix

Director: Yann Demange

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Hulu

Director: Brian Helgeland

Where to Watch It: Rent it on iTunes

Director: Kurt Wimmer

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Netflix

Director: Jean-François Richet

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Brian G. Hutton

Where to Watch It: Rent it on YouTube, iTunes, Google, Vudu, or Amazon

Director: Hark Tsui

Where to Watch It: Streaming on Fandor (free trial through Amazon)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Where to Watch It: Streaming on the Criterion Channel

Director: John Flynn

Where to Watch It: Rent it on Vudu

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Where to Watch It: Rent it on Google, Vudu, iTunes, or Amazon

Director: Christophe Gans

Where to Watch It: Buy it on Amazon

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If you're looking for even more movie recommendations from James Gunn, be sure to seek him out on Twitter. He's already promised that a "comedy or romance" list is in the works, and you can read the replies to this action list for his interactions with fans about which superhero movies he would have included, which movies almost made the cut, and more.